1. Reality of a Goal: Vision Boards Avenue to Success: Professional
Patricia Wright LCSW

2. Vision Boards Developing a Life Worth Living and the Substance Abuse Client
Patricia Wright LCSW

3. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE FACETS OF RECOVERY?

4. Interventions Motivational Interviewing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Insight oriented-reflection
Develops discrepancy
Addresses ambivalence creatively
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Restructuring
Examining and challenging belief systems
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Creative visualization
Need to access Wise Mind
Positive affirmations

5. Some of the Benefits Goal setting Dreams begin to crystallize
Hopes- Develop Spirituality- Begin to see a need for it.
“Want to…” “Wish For’s”

6. Vision Boards in Group sessions
Ice breaker
Group Cohesion
Breaks down walls- Clients drop their guard
Art as a creative form of expression

7. Ways to use in Therapeutic Milieu
Motivational Interviewing
Pros and Cons
Helps clients see discrepancies in goals and behaviors
Pre-recovery and post-recovery
Looking forward only, present and beyond
Clients may find their voice for the first time

8. Results
Clients see the devastation that substance abuse has had on their lives
Clients get to see “what is missing” in their life vision, hopes and dreams
Clients become more motivated to stay in recovery and believe recovery is possible to achieve
One step towards the goal you are willing to make?