Preventing Relapse Through Faith, Skills, and Daily Practice

Appendix A — Expanded Quiz Answer Key

Use the answer key to review concepts. Explanations are more important than the letter choice; the goal is to understand why the recovery principle matters.

Module 1

1. B — Viewing relapse as a process creates more points for early intervention.

2. A — Emotional changes can increase risk before conscious planning appears.

3. C — Shame attacks identity rather than focusing on a behavior that can be addressed.

4. A — Grace does not remove responsibility; it helps a person face truth without being defined by condemnation.

5. B — Specific actions are easier to follow when stress rises.

Module 2

1. B — HALT is a quick vulnerability check for hunger, anger, loneliness, and fatigue.

2. A — Isolation can remove protective connection.

3. B — Emotional honesty supports coping and reduces the need to numb.

4. C — Sustainable recovery includes rest and realistic limits.

5. B — Healthy coping creates space to experience and respond to emotion.

Module 3

1. C — Cravings can be strong without controlling behavior.

2. B — Bargaining creates an exception that minimizes risk.

3. B — Selective memory can romanticize past use.

4. B — Thought checking creates distance and supports wise action.

5. A — A truth-based action reinforces renewed thinking.

Module 4

1. B — Earlier emotional and mental changes often precede return to use.

2. B — The purpose is to identify multiple intervention points.

3. C — Rapid return interrupts escalation.

4. A — Overdose, dangerous withdrawal, impaired driving, and other emergencies require appropriate professional response.

5. B — Pre-decisions protect judgment under stress.

Module 5

1. B — Structure supports consistency and reduces improvisation during vulnerable periods.

2. B — Consistency matters more than complexity.

3. B — Reflection becomes useful when it leads to action.

4. A — Backup plans prevent a disrupted routine from becoming total abandonment.

5. B — Identifying vulnerable times helps build protective routines.

Module 6

1. B — Prayer and practical recovery actions can work together.

2. B — Preparation reduces the cognitive load of choosing under pressure.

3. B — Faith can support honest return and growth through difficult seasons.

4. B — Weakness can signal a need for rest, support, or treatment.

5. B — Trust may require consistent behavior over time.

Module 7

1. C — External triggers arise from the environment.

2. B — Prioritizing helps focus prevention efforts.

3. B — Some risks should be avoided, some modified, and some managed.

4. B — Planning across the whole event creates several points of protection.

5. A — An early exit can be wisdom rather than failure.

Module 8

1. B — Specific written plans are easier to use under stress.

2. B — These categories address connection, behavior, and thinking.

3. A — Redundancy makes the plan more resilient.

4. A — Scenario practice shows what is unclear or unavailable.

5. B — Higher risk calls for stronger connection and protective action.

Module 9

1. B — Connection supports honesty and early intervention.

2. B — Healthy accountability supports responsibility without control.

3. B — Outside supports can protect the marriage from becoming a monitoring system.

4. B — Service should grow from stability, not replace it.

5. B — Multiple healthy supports improve resilience.

Module 10

1. A — Stability can lead a person to remove practices that helped create it.

2. B — Recovery aims at a whole life, not only substance avoidance.

3. A — Transitions can change risk, routines, and available supports.

4. B — Vision gives prevention a positive direction while allowing adaptation.

5. B — Hope gives a positive reason to maintain recovery actions.

Appendix B — Master Relapse Prevention Plan

Complete this plan after Module 8 and review it after any major transition, near-relapse, or relapse. Keep a copy where you can reach it quickly.

1. My earliest warning signs

Warning sign What it looks like in me First response

Master Relapse Prevention Plan — Triggers and Supports

2. My highest-priority triggers

Trigger Avoid / Adjust / Accept Planned response

3. People I will contact

Name / role Best way to contact When I will call

Master Relapse Prevention Plan — Action Levels

LOW RISK — I notice mild drift or one warning sign

MEDIUM RISK — several warning signs, cravings, bargaining, or isolation

HIGH RISK — planning, access, active movement toward use, or immediate danger

Master Relapse Prevention Plan — Truths and Environment

Truths / Scripture references I need to remember

Environmental safeguards (money, transportation, contacts, locations, substances, devices)

Where copies of this plan will be kept

Appendix C — 30-Day Recovery Check-In

Use one line per day. Rate risk from 1 (low) to 5 (high). Record the most important warning sign and the action you took. This is a pattern-finding tool, not a scorecard for perfection.

Day Risk 1–5 Main feeling / trigger Recovery action Connection made?

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30-Day Recovery Check-In — Continued

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30-Day Recovery Check-In — Continued

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30-Day Pattern Review

Which warning signs appeared most often?

Which actions lowered risk most effectively?

Which days or times were consistently harder?

What will I change for the next 30 days?

Appendix D — Family Recovery and Boundary Guide

Recovery affects the whole family. Healthy support combines compassion, truth, safety, and boundaries. A family cannot force recovery, but it can choose how the household will respond to recovery-supporting and recovery-threatening behavior.

Support is not surveillance

• Ask about the agreed recovery plan rather than searching constantly for proof.
• Describe observations rather than assuming motives.
• Encourage outside accountability so the family is not the entire recovery system.
• Protect children and vulnerable household members from unsafe behavior.

Boundaries are statements of what I will do

• A boundary is not a threat designed to control another person.
• A boundary should be clear, realistic, and enforceable.
• Examples may involve transportation, money, substances in the home, overnight guests, violence, or access to children.
• Family members may need professional, pastoral, legal, or peer support when situations are complex.

Family Conversation Worksheet

What behaviors help our home feel safe and recovery-supporting?

What behaviors require a boundary or change in plan?

How will we communicate when risk rises?

Who supports the family members—not only the person in recovery?

Trust Rebuilding Plan

Trust usually grows through repeated behavior over time. Choose a small number of observable commitments rather than demanding immediate emotional certainty.

Area Recovery-supporting behavior How progress will be reviewed

What forgiveness means to us:

What trust requires over time:

Appendix E — Trigger and High-Risk Event Worksheets

Trigger Inventory

Trigger Internal / External Intensity 1–5 Frequency 1–5 Response

High-Risk Event Plan

Event / date / location

BEFORE — rest, food, prayer, support, transportation, money plan

DURING — safe people, time limit, check-in, coping tools

EXIT — warning signs that mean I leave and how I will leave

AFTER — call, meeting, review, rest

People who know this plan

Appendix F — Rapid-Return and Crisis-Safety Planning

This worksheet is for use after a slip, near-relapse, or rapid increase in risk. It does not replace medical or emergency care. If there is immediate danger, possible overdose, dangerous withdrawal, violence, self-harm risk, or another emergency, seek appropriate emergency or medical assistance.

FIRST 2 HOURS — safety and honesty

FIRST 24 HOURS — reconnect and stabilize

Rapid-Return Plan — 72 Hours and Review

FIRST 72 HOURS — restore structure and support

What happened before the slip?

What will change in my prevention plan now?

Appendix G — Recovery Glossary

Accountability: A structured relationship or process in which recovery commitments are discussed honestly and reviewed consistently.

Avoid / Adjust / Accept: A trigger-management framework: avoid unnecessary risk, adjust situations that can be modified, and accept/manage what cannot be controlled.

Behavior chain: The sequence of vulnerabilities, thoughts, emotions, situations, and actions that leads toward a target behavior such as relapse.

Boundary: A clear statement of what a person will or will not participate in, allow, provide, or do in response to behavior.

Craving: An urge or desire that can include thoughts, emotions, memories, and body sensations; it is an experience, not a command.

Emotional relapse: A stage of relapse risk in which emotions, self-care, honesty, or relationships begin drifting even if the person is not consciously planning to use.

External trigger: A person, place, object, event, route, smell, sound, money situation, or other environmental cue associated with increased risk.

Faith toolbox: Prepared spiritual practices—such as Scripture references, prayer, worship, and trusted faith connections— paired with practical recovery actions.

HALT: A quick check for Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired—four common vulnerability states.

High-risk situation: A circumstance that combines triggers, vulnerability, access, pressure, or reduced support in a way that increases relapse risk.

Internal trigger: An emotion, thought, body sensation, memory, pain state, or other internal experience associated with increased risk.

Mental relapse: A stage in which conscious craving, bargaining, romanticizing, justification, or planning begins competing with recovery goals.

Physical relapse: The return to substance use or another target addictive behavior—the final visible link in a longer process.

Rapid-return plan: A written first-hours and first-days response designed to stop a slip from becoming a prolonged relapse.

Recovery anchor: A repeatable daily or weekly practice that provides structure, such as sleep time, meetings, prayer, meals, exercise, or check-ins.

Relapse-prevention plan: A written guide that identifies warning signs, triggers, people, actions, truths, safe places, and safeguards to use when risk increases.

Resilience: The capacity to continue healthy action, recover from setbacks, and adapt to difficulty with support and skills.

Slip: A limited return to use or target behavior that requires immediate safety, honesty, support, and plan revision; it does not have to become prolonged relapse.

Trigger: A cue or condition that increases relapse risk but does not determine behavior.

Warning sign: A change in behavior, emotion, thinking, routine, relationships, or spirituality that may signal rising relapse vulnerability.

Appendix H — Facilitator and Resource Guide

Suggested 60–75 Minute Session Flow

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Opening check-in and prayer — 10 minutes
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Review prior practice — 10 minutes
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Teach the lesson — 20 minutes
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Workbook / discussion — 20 minutes
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Recovery commitment and closing prayer — 10 minutes

Facilitation Principles

• Teach the material; do not diagnose participants.
• Invite participation without requiring public disclosure of private trauma or relapse details.
• Redirect crisis, medical, psychiatric, legal, or clinical needs to appropriate qualified services.
• Keep faith language invitational and grounded in the stated Christian purpose of the curriculum.
• Encourage family members to use boundaries and their own supports rather than becoming controllers of another

• person’s recovery.
• Review the personal relapse-prevention plan repeatedly, especially around transitions and high-risk events.

Common Recovery Supports

• Licensed or certified substance-use treatment providers
• Medical and mental-health professionals
• Pastoral care and church-based recovery ministries
• Peer-recovery meetings and mutual-support groups
• Sponsors, mentors, recovery coaches, and sober peer networks
• Family support groups and counseling
• Recovery housing and structured community supports
• Emergency services when immediate safety is at risk

Facilitator Notes and Attendance

Session / Lesson Date Attendance / Notes Follow-up