WRAP

The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP©) is a self-management and recovery system developed by a group of people who had mental health difficulties and who were struggling to incorporate wellness tools and strategies into their lives.

 
What is WRAP? According to the Mary Ellen Copeland Center, Wellness Recovery Action Plan is the following:

• It is a system for monitoring, reducing and eliminating uncomfortable or dangerous physical symptoms and emotional feelings.
• It is a useful tool for creating positive change, increasing wellness, and decreasing symptomatic episodes of certain illnesses.
• It moves past self-help skills to encourage and allow the participant to incorporate these skills into their daily lives and in times of crisis.
• It helps to develop and utilize a support system that will assist during times of need.

WRAP is designed to:
 

• Decrease and prevent intrusive or troubling feelings and behaviors
   
• Increase personal empowerment
   
• Improve quality of life
   
• Assist people in achieving their own life goals and dreams
   

WRAP is a structured system to monitor uncomfortable and distressing symptoms that can help reduce, modify or eliminate those systems by using planned responses. This includes plans for how you want others to respond when symptoms make it impossible for you to continue to make decisions, take care of yourself or keep yourself safe. The WRAP system was developed by people who have been dealing with a variety of psychiatric symptoms for many years and who are working hard to feel better and to get on with their lives. Mary Ellen Copeland has shared it with people with other illnesses and they too believe that it can be easily adapted for use with other conditions.