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Worksheet H: Medication Collaboration

Creating a supportive plan for medication adherence.

Week 8
Appendix H

Understanding Their Perspective

What are the biggest complaints I've heard about their medication?
What positive changes have I seen when they are adherent?

Adherence Strategy

A system we could use to help remember medication is...
If they express a desire to stop, I will say...
On a scale of 0-10, how consistent is their medication adherence right now?

Behind the Behavior

What did they actually do or say? (Just the observable behavior — no interpretation)
What was your nervous system's first interpretation? (The story it wrote)
What mood state were they in? (Depressive, hypomanic, mixed, medicated/unmedicated)
Alternative explanation 1: Maybe they were feeling...
Alternative explanation 2: Maybe they needed...
Alternative explanation 3: Maybe the illness was making them...
What is it like to hold multiple explanations without picking one? What do you notice?

Compassionate Inquiry: Tracing the Shame

A recent moment when I felt shame in this relationship:
The story I told myself about what it meant:
When I first learned this story / whose voice it is:
Where I feel shame in my body:
If that shame belongs to the past, what is actually true right now?
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