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Never enter PII or PHI into this site, copied prompts, practice exercises, or an unapproved AI or chat tool.
PRP practitioner field guide
Your next PRP move,
made clear.
You do not need to know what to search for. Tell us what is happening in your session and open the exact guide you need.
Choose what you need ↓FIRST DAYUse the six-step walkthroughGuide me step by step →
QUICK REFRESHEROpen the tool for the current situationChoose what I need →
EXPERIENCED PRACTITIONERGo directly to the reference libraryBrowse all graphics →
No prior training needed
What do you need help with right now?
Choose the sentence that sounds most like your situation.
First-day walkthrough
If this is your first PRP session, follow these six moves.
Do not worry about memorizing everything. Keep the formula open and move one step at a time.
- 1Find the IRP goal
What functional skill is the participant working toward?
- 2Name today’s barrier
What is getting in the way right now?
- 3Teach or model one skill
Show the participant exactly what the skill looks like.
- 4Practice and coach
Let the participant try. Prompt, redirect, and rehearse.
- 5Apply it to real life
Connect practice to a real home, work, school, or community situation.
- 6Choose a next step and document
Record your intervention, the observable participant response, and one brief participant quote when appropriate.
Privacy & confidentiality checkpoint
Pause before you type, paste, or send.
Protect participant information in every note, training example, message, and exchange.
Document in the approved EHR.
Include required facts and identifiers only as agency policy requires. Keep the note relevant, accurate, and limited to the service.
Use approved secure channels only.
Verify the recipient and authorization, then share only what is needed. Follow added consent rules when 42 CFR Part 2 or state law applies.
Do not copy into unapproved tools:names · dates of birth · addresses · phone numbers · Social Security numbers · member/Medicaid IDs · photos · identifiable diagnoses or eventsIf you are unsure, stop and contact your supervisor or privacy officer.
Original infographic library
Every core practitioner guide
Each card uses the actual graphic created in your original training conversation. Open it full-size or download it.
Start a session · Start here
The Checkmate PRP Intervention Formula
Use this when: Use this first. It shows the complete path from IRP goal to documentation.
Start a session · 2 min
Discussion vs. Billable Rehabilitation
Use this when: Use when a session feels like it is only conversation.
Choose an intervention · Quick pick
PRP Intervention Toolbox
Use this when: Use when you need an active move such as teach, model, role-play, or coach.
Choose an intervention · Plan session
From IRP Goal to Actual Session
Use this when: Use when you know the goal but do not know what activity to do.
Choose an intervention
PRP Skills Training Cheat Sheet
Use this when: Use for a fast menu of practical skill-building techniques.
Document the session
Participant Response: What Should I Document?
Use this when: Use to describe what the participant actually did, demonstrated, or needed.
Document the session
Progress Without Making Things Up
Use this when: Use when you need accurate progress language without overstating improvement.
Start a session · 60-min guide
60-Minute PRP Session Map
Use this when: Use to plan a full session with enough time for practice and application.
Communication skills
Motivational Interviewing: OARS
Use this when: Use when you need to engage the participant and move conversation toward action.
Communication skills
Establishing Boundaries
Use this when: Use to teach, model, and role-play clear boundary language.
Session flows
Adult PRP Session Flow
Use this when: Use as a step-by-step guide for an adult PRP session.
Session flows
Minor PRP Session Flow
Use this when: Use for developmentally appropriate youth practice and guardian reinforcement.
SAMHSA wellness: eight interconnected dimensions
Choose the life area connected to the IRP goal.
No domain is first or more important. The cards are listed alphabetically so staff can find them consistently.
How to use every domain graphic1 Choose a practitioner intervention→2 Deliver, model, coach, or practice it→3 Document the observable response + a relevant participant quoteSome original artwork contains legacy Area numbers or places documentation first. Those production labels are not SAMHSA rankings. Follow the domain name and the use order above.
Motivational interviewing by wellness domain
MI Cue Cards
Choose the participant’s wellness domain, then use the card to elicit, affirm, reflect, and summarize—without directing the participant’s answer.
Listen for the participant’s own words.When appropriate, include one brief, relevant, exact participant quote in the note to support the documented response or change talk.Use quotation marks. Do not invent, clean up, or interpret the quote. Follow agency privacy and documentation requirements.
MI CUE CARD
Emotional Wellness
Use open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, summaries, and change-talk prompts for emotional wellness.
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MI CUE CARD
Environmental Wellness
Elicit the participant’s own reasons and ideas for creating a safer, healthier, more supportive environment.
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MI CUE CARD
Financial Wellness
Explore motivation, confidence, and participant-chosen next steps related to financial wellness.
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MI CUE CARD
Intellectual Wellness
Evoke curiosity, learning goals, strengths, and personally meaningful reasons for growth.
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MI CUE CARD
Occupational Wellness
Explore work, school, purpose, readiness, and the participant’s own vision for meaningful activity.
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MI CUE CARD
Physical Wellness
Elicit personally meaningful reasons for healthier routines and realistic participant-selected steps.
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MI CUE CARD
Social Wellness
Explore connection, support, communication, belonging, and relationship change talk.
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MI CUE CARD
Spiritual Wellness
Explore values, meaning, faith, hope, purpose, and participant-directed spiritual wellness goals.
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Who are you meeting with?
Open the right session flow before you begin.
When you feel stuck
Use an action verb.
Move the session forward by choosing one active practitioner behavior.
TeachModelDemonstrateRole-playCoachPracticeRehearsePromptRedirectProblem-solveApplyReinforceDocument
“Discussed” or “processed” may describe conversation, but should not be the only evidence of the rehabilitative intervention.