Print During your treatment, you can actively take part in your recovery. A significant part of your recovery process takes place in between the conversations with your professional, in your daily life. You will work on exercises and to-dos that are an important part of the treatment.
Collaboration
By actively participating, you take control of your recovery. You closely collaborate with your professional. To ensure that your professional can work alongside you during your treatment, they need sufficient information about your life.
For this reason the professional can ask you to fill in questionnaires or exercises.
You can record this information in the NiceDay app.
Registering your process
In NiceDay, you can write in your diary, track how you’re doing with the Check-in, or use specific trackers to monitor behavior/emotions/symptoms/events over an extended period. You can fill in exercises (voluntarily or as instructed). You can view to-do’s created by your professional or create your own and follow through with them.
By registering the steps you take towards your recovery, you become more aware of your situation. Additionally, it enhances your self-insight (such as your feelings and behavior) as you can regularly reflect on your progress.
Below, you will find a few reasons why creating registrations is valuable to your recovery process:
- Moments of self-reflection are crucial during your process of change. How far have you already come? Which steps – small or big – have you already taken? Through your registrations, you will be able to see how a certain behaviour or thinking pattern has changed and the progress that you have made.
- Not feeling so well? Look back at the times when you felt better and when things were going well. By reflecting on this, you will remind yourself that you have felt better in the past. It is important to investigate what those moments looked like and what it was that made you feel better.
- When you write about it right after an important situation, you will have the best memory of what exactly happened and how you felt during. You will be able to learn a lot from this.
- You and your professional can get a good idea of what exactly is going on, which moments are difficult for you, what thoughts you have or what you feel.
- Because your professional is already aware of what has happened before a session, a session is more purposeful and often more useful.
It can help to write down why you want to actively take part in your recovery. You can use this if you need extra motivation.
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