The Therapy Blueprint for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is designed to summarize therapeutic progress, reinforce learning, and support relapse prevention for clients completing treatment for panic.
Offers theory, guidance, and prompts for mental health professionals. Downloads are in Fillable PDF format where appropriate.
Includes client-friendly guidance. Downloads are in Fillable PDF format where appropriate.
An editable Microsoft PowerPoint version of the resource.
An editable Microsoft Word version of the resource.
A therapy blueprint represents the past (the problems, what maintained them), the present (the therapy itself, new knowledge learned and skills developed) and the future (goals, plans, and strategies to manage setbacks). Therapy blueprints also act as a form of relapse prevention – by making new knowledge more accessible, clients are more able to cope effectively with future setbacks. The Therapy Blueprint For OCD is a relapse prevention worksheet tailored for clients who are completing a course of therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). It encourages a particular focus on client’s responses to intrusive thoughts, images, urges, and doubts.
The therapy blueprint supports clients in reflecting on therapy to consolidate their learning and plan for the future.
Clients who have completed treatment and are using relapse prevention strategies to reflect on their progress, identify early warning signs, and maintain therapeutic gains.
Explain the concept of a therapy blueprint.
Use the blueprint to reflect on learning and plan future goals together with the client.
Encourage clients to use the blueprint as a continued guide post-therapy.
Revisit the blueprint in follow-up sessions to ensure it remains useful and relevant.
A therapy blueprint is CBT tool which summarizes the work a therapist and patient have completed together. Patients can be encouraged to think of it as ‘the first session of the rest of your life’. Therapy blueprints are one way to help clients reflect on what they have learned during therapy. They act as a way of promoting resilience by reinforcing what has been learned. Therapy blueprints also act as a form of relapse prevention – by making new knowledge more accessible clients are more able to cope effectively with future setbacks.
A helpful way of conceptualizing the therapy blueprint is to think of how it represents the past (the problems, what maintained them), the present (the therapy itself, new knowledge learned and skills developed) and the future (goals, plans, and strategies to manage setbacks). Therapists will find it helpful to introduce the therapy blueprint prior to the final session, and as early as the client is willing.
The Therapy Blueprint For OCD is a relapse prevention worksheet tailored for clients who are completing a course of therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). It encourages a particular focus on client’s responses to intrusive thoughts, images, urges, and doubts.
