When It Is Used
Use it when a client needs concrete coping options ready for urges, triggers, distress, or other high-risk moments.
Coping Plan
Coping Plan is a substance-use treatment recovery-support tool for practitioners and clients. It helps create a concrete set of coping strategies matched to urges, triggers, distress, or high-risk situations the client may face.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Captures
It captures high-risk situations, one or more coping strategies for each, feasibility or access notes, unmatched situations, and update history.
Important Limits
It does not create a full treatment plan, score clinical risk, provide emergency protocols, or recommend strategies not entered or source-supported.
Does this recommend coping strategies automatically?
No. Strategies are entered by the client and practitioner or supported by the source structure; the system does not invent recommendations.
Can a strategy exist without a matched situation?
Yes. It can remain as a general option, but it should be distinguished from matched strategies.
What happens when a situation has no strategy?
The plan flags the situation as unmatched or incomplete until a coping option is added or clarified.
Can situations be imported from trigger or risk tools?
Yes, when available, related trigger or risk profiles can supply situations so the coping plan does not require duplicate entry.