The Therapy Blueprint For Social Anxiety is an extended relapse prevention worksheet tailored for clients who have struggled with social anxiety disorder.
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.
Therapy blueprints capture important information about the client's past (the problems they struggled with, what maintained them), the present (their experience of therapy, knowledge learned, and skills developed) and their 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 Social Anxiety is a relapse prevention worksheet tailored for clients who are completing a course of therapy for social anxiety disorder. It encourages a particular focus on client’s self-impressions and self-images, the way they focus their attention, and the way that they think and act.
The therapy blueprint provides a structured framework for reinforcing clients' therapeutic gains and planning for future challenges.
Tailored for individuals who have struggled with social anxiety.
Explain the purpose and value of developing therapy blueprint.
Help the client describe the problems that brought them to therapy and what kept them going.
Identify the knowledge and skills the client has found most helpful in addressing their social anxiety.
Help the client describe helpful changes in their thinking, behavior, and focus of attention.
Identify future goals and potential difficulties that could lead to setbacks (including plans for dealing with them).
The therapy blueprint helps consolidate progress in therapy and prevent relapse through structured reflection. It helps clients summarize their gains in therapy and prepare for challenges that could lead to setbacks.
The Therapy Blueprint For Social Anxiety is a relapse prevention worksheet tailored for clients who are completing a course of therapy for social anxiety. Informed by cognitive models of social anxiety, it encourages a particular focus on clients' self-impressions and self-images, the way they focus their attention, and the way that they think and act.
