Assessment Description For this assignment, you will create a recovery management plan. Recovery management plans can be useful tools for clients to refer to throughout counseling and once counseling
Client Demographics and Plan
Jed Smith is a 30-year-old Caucasian male with opioid use disorder, which is severe, and as a result of long-term heroin dependence. Medically, he denies any previous withdrawal symptoms and has high cravings. At the psychological level he proves to be impulsively impaired, euphorically recollective and patterns of behavioral addiction begin to emerge (gambling). His substance use has led to separation, legal issues, financial crisis, and poor interpersonal relationship in the society. Jed is now sober, after being in jail and is now willing to recover because of the legal, family and personal repercussions.
Part 2: Chart of Harmful and Destructive Behaviors
Jed should not take heroin, gamble (play lotto), steal, and have peer involvement with substance users. The believed rewards are short-term euphoria and the alleviation of cravings. Legal infraction, imprisonment, loss of family, poverty, relapse and greater chances of overdose and death are some of the consequences involved.
Part 3: The Trends of Symptom Recurrence
Jed has already made a number of steps to decrease the risk of relapse. He has been abstinent during and after a four-week jail term, has accepted the extent to which he is addicted to drugs, and has been attending counseling, as mandated by probation. He too has identified the new process addictive behavior like lottery gambling, which indicates greater understanding of cross-addictive nature. Abstinence has been observed as something that Jed has been committed to get the family stability and meet the legal requirements. He will acknowledge that this objective is not being achieved when the cravings are getting worse, he is more secretive, or he is gambling again or getting into substance related behaviors.
The risk factors are emotional distress associated with being separated with his family, being exposed to financial stressors, and lack of structure after release and interaction with former drug-using associates. Also, there can be physiological cravings and euphoric recollection of heroin consumption that lead to relapsing at times of boredom or stress. The riskiness of gambling behaviors is especially high because they simulate the dopamine reinforcement loop of opioid use. Among the irrational thinking, there are such beliefs like: I will be able to control this time, I need some relief after I had to go through these things, and I will not use once, it will not hurt. Such cognitive distortions downplay the consequences and add on to relapse vulnerability. Part 4: Recovery Management Plan Jed will apply a structured response plan to which he will contact a sponsor, physical activity, prayer or meditation, and cognitive restructuring skills. He will promptly withdraw out of the high risk situations and seek any community or religious assistance before impulses reach the point of explosion. Part 5: Further Health and Well-Being Jed will participate in various resources that are recovery-oriented, such as outpatient substance use counseling, Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings at least three times in a week, and probation-based recovery programs. Family counseling will also help him to overcome relational damage and achieve reunification. Faith-based recovery groups could be a source of further structure and meaning. The effectiveness will be measured with the help of sustained abstinence, attendance history, better coping skills, and improved family relationships. In a more autonomous manner, Jed can consider doing healthy activities, like fitness groups or vocational training, and the success would be determined by decreased cravings, better mood, and more stable life. Part 6: Signatures Client Name: Jed Smith
Client Signature: ______Jed Smith_____________________
Date: _______2/26/2026____________
Counselor Signature: _Leslie Bethea______________________
Date: ______2/25/2026_____________
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