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Treatment Support Plan

Map your loved one's current treatment, practice the Mentalizing Pause, and identify the roles you play.

Week 9

Appendix I

Current Treatment

What treatment is your loved one currently receiving? (Therapy type, frequency, medications)

What aspects of their treatment seem to be helping?

What aspects seem less helpful or create friction?

MBT Exercise: The Mentalizing Pause

Describe a recent interaction where you noticed the conversation starting to escalate.

Did you use the Mentalizing Pause? If so, which question did you ask? What happened?

Looking back: what do you think your loved one was actually feeling or needing in that moment that you couldn't see at the time?

What would you do differently next time, using the curiosity stance?

TFP Exercise: Role Clarification

Describe a recent difficult interaction in one or two sentences.

What role were you playing? (Rescuer / Persecutor / Abandoner / Witness / other)

What role were you being assigned? What did their behavior seem to expect from you?

Did you accept the assignment? What did that look like?

What would it look like to stay present without taking the role next time? Write a specific sentence you could say.

Your Role in Supporting Treatment

How can you support their treatment without undermining it?

What boundaries do you need to maintain around their treatment (e.g., not asking for session reports)?