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Baseline

Baseline comes first. You mark one answer to each of a hundred and fifty questions about your mind, feelings, body, money and the people around you, then answer a shorter set on what you have been through and what you believe about treatment and yourself.

You complete Baseline before Therapeutic Autobiography. It has two parts, and both set down where things stand before the BREAK phase of BARE begins. The Readiness Inventory asks a hundred and fifty questions in five sections: Mental, Emotional, Physical, Financial and Social. The second piece, "Where you are right now", asks what you were using, what came of any treatment before this, why you think you are here, what you already believe and what you expect. It ends with room for anything the questions did not cover.

There are no right answers, and no one is scoring you against anyone else. Answer honestly. In the second piece, write what is true, not what sounds right. "I don't know" is a real answer. Your answers help the people working with you begin in the right place.

The path

6 sessions · 2 parts

  1. The Readiness Inventory

    Five sessions of thirty questions, one per section, in this order: Mental, Emotional, Physical, Financial and Social. Every question has four set answers. Mark the one closest to true for you. If two feel close, pick the one that is true more often. Some questions cover the same ground from a different angle. That is on purpose. Answer each as it comes. If answering raises real distress, stop and tell your clinician before you go on. Do not push through alone.

    5 sessions

  2. Where you are right now

    One session in seven worksheets. Arriving asks how many days it has been since you last drank or used and how clear your head feels; What you came in using asks what it was. Before this place asks about any treatment before this and what happened after you left. Why you think you're here asks who decided you would come, whether you agree with the reason and whether you would walk out today with no consequences. What you already believe gives ten statements to rate from completely disagree to completely agree. What you expect asks what would make this time worth it. In your own words leaves room for anything the questions did not cover.

    1 session

How it works

One session at a time

Each section of the Readiness Inventory opens as its own session: five sessions of thirty questions. Work straight through a section. Do not go back to change earlier answers to match later ones. The worksheet "Where you are right now" is one session of about thirty minutes. Some of the worksheet's questions ask you to give a number on a scale or choose from a short list. Others give you space to write.

Each session opens in your own private area of this site. You read it, then write your answers there, and the clinician who reads your work replies. Nothing is timed.

What is held, and for how long

What you write is private. It is not used to train anything, not sold, and not shared with anyone who does not need to know, and never without your specific consent except where the law requires it, as the Privacy Policy sets out. It is kept for three years after your last contact with the practice, and you can ask for a copy or its deletion at any point.