The Shared Recovery Roadmap

Patient responsibilities

Responsibilities should be specific, lawful, realistic, and connected to the individual plan.

• Attend confirmed care and recovery supports
• Follow medication guidance from the treating clinician
• Participate in agreed monitoring and communication
• Practice daily structure and increasing adult responsibility
• Report barriers early instead of after the plan collapses

Family responsibilities

Family consistency reduces mixed messages and crisis bargaining.

• Provide only the support that was actually agreed
• Maintain boundaries without threats or surprise punishment
• Use the communication and crisis plan
• Protect children, finances, property, and health
• Continue the family’s own recovery work

Professional responsibilities

Every professional role should have a defined scope and handoff.

• Clinical assessment and treatment within licensed scope
• Medication and medical decisions by qualified clinicians
• Recovery implementation and coaching within agreed scope
• Monitoring coordination, documentation, and predefined reporting
• Case coordination across providers and authorized stakeholders

Shared agreements

The shared layer may address communication, trust, expectations, autonomy, money, housing, vehicles, relationships, information sharing, relapse response, and long-term goals. It should identify what will be reviewed at 30 days, 90 days, and later milestones.

One accountable map

The roadmap should not turn the family into the treatment team or a professional into the parent. It gives every participant a lane, makes gaps visible, and identifies who convenes a review when the plan no longer matches reality.