GROUPS, LECTURES, AND ASSIGNMENTS
Based on the above assessment, counselors will provide assignments consistent with the identified issues. During Phase I, clients will:

• Attend twenty lectures, complete the written assignments for each, and attend the accompanying process groups.
• Be provided with the guided journal, My First Year in Recovery, which they will fill out daily and process in group.

LECTURES
In order to individualize treatment and coordinate the timing with regard to addressing the client's particular therapeutic issues, the counselor may assign the client to attend any of the scheduled lectures.

ASSIGNMENTS
Assignments are designed to correlate with specific stages of change and facilitate progress from one stage to another. Assignments are as follows:
Client(s) will:

• Complete Step Working Guides One, Two, and Three and process each with staff. (Pre-contemplation or Contemplation).
• Write a "loss list" of personal qualities, values, relationships, and material resources that he or she has lost or risks losing as a result of active addiction. (Preparation).
• Write a commitment statement about taking the action(s) needed to live in recovery versus active addiction.
• Write a vision statement about what his or her life will look and be like in recovery, starting at the end of treatment and continuing through his or her first year of recovery.
• Write a "life resource" list that includes all the personal qualities and strengths, people, materials or other external resources in his or her life, and well as potential resources of which he or she has not yet called on that support recovery.