1. Mental Health Recovery
Including:
Wellness Recovery Action Planning®
WRAP®
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD

2. Key Recovery Concepts Hope Personal Responsibility Education
Self-Advocacy
Support 6

3. There is Much to Hope For!
You can work toward and meet your goals! You can lead a happy and productive life! 8

4. Personal Responsibility
You are the expert on yourself!
You know what you want and need!
It is up to you to take personal responsibility for your own wellness and your own life! 11

5. Education
Learn all you can about yourself so you can make good decisions about:
Treatment
Lifestyle
Career
Relationships
Living Space
Leisure Time Activities
All Aspects of Your Life 13

6. Self-Advocacy Set personal goals and work toward meeting them by:
Getting the facts
Planning your strategy
Gathering support
Targeting your efforts 19

7. Supporters Are People Who:
Care about you
Empathize with you
Affirm and validate you and your experience
Accept you as you are
Listen to you and share with you 29

8. Wellness Tools
Wellness tools are things you do to keep yourself well, and the things you do to help yourself feel better when you are not feeling well.
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9. WRAP Includes: Daily Maintenance Plan Triggers and Action Plan
Early Warning Signs and Action Plan
When Things are Breaking Down and Action Plan
Crisis Planning
Post Crisis Planning
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10. Daily Maintenance List-3 Parts
What I’m like when I am feeling well
2. Things I need to do to keep feeling well
3. Things I may choose to do
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11. Triggers
External events or circumstances may make you feel very uncomfortable.
These are normal reactions to life events - but if you don’t respond to them, they may actually make you feel worse.
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12. Triggers Action Plan
On the page after your list of Triggers, develop a plan that you feel will keep you from feeling worse if a triggering event occurs
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13. Early Warning Signs
Early Warning Signs are internal are subtle signs of change that indicate you many need to take some further action.
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14. Early Warning Signs Action Plan
On the next page develop a plan of things to do everyday until you feel better –
a plan you think will help you from feeling worse if you notice Early Warning Signs.
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15. When Things are Breaking Down or Getting Worse
You may begin to feel even worse – very uncomfortable, like the situation is serious – and even dangerous – but you are still able to take some action in your own behalf.
This is a very important time. It is necessary to take immediate, assertive action to prevent a crisis.
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16. When Things are Breaking Down or Getting Worse
The plan now needs to be clear and very directive, with many things you “must” do and fewer choices.
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17. Crisis Planning The next section of the WRAP is the Crisis Plan.
In spite of your best planning and assertive action, you may find yourself in a crisis situation where others will need to take over responsibility for your care.
You may feel as though you are totally out of control.
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18. Crisis Planning It Includes: What you are like when you are well
Indicators that others need to “take over”
Supporters
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19. Crisis Planning
Information on your Health Care Contacts and Medications
Acceptable and Unacceptable Treatments
Home/Community Care/Respite Plan
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20. Crisis Planning Acceptable and Unacceptable Hospital Facilities
Things others can do that would help
Support from others no longer needed
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21. Post Crisis Planning
The time when you are healing from a crisis can be very important.
Although you feel ready to begin taking care of yourself again, you may still be dealing with difficult feelings as well as the aftermath of the crisis.
You may find that you start feeling worse - like you are heading for another crisis.
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22. Contact Information
Lindsey Halligan: