The Therapy Blueprint is a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) tool that helps consolidate therapeutic gains by summarizing the work done in therapy, promoting resilience, and preventing relapse.
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.
The Therapy Blueprint acts as a comprehensive summary of a client's therapeutic journey. By mirroring the structure of therapy itself, it aids clients in reflecting on their progress, reinforcing what they have learned, and planning for future challenges. It includes sections on clients' difficulties, maintaining factors, treatment gains, and therapeutic progress, and is designed to be introduced to clients prior to ending therapy.
The therapy blueprint serves multiple functions in enhancing therapy outcomes:
This resource is suitable for all clients coming to the end of talking therapy.
Explore what problems brought the client to therapy and how they developed.
Discuss how and why difficulties persisted.
Highlight new skills and techniques the client learned.
Reflect on past and current goals, and discuss new goals.
Plan for potential setbacks and develop coping strategies.
A therapy blueprint is CBT tool which summarizes the work a therapist and patient have completed together. 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). 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. This simple blueprint worksheet helps clients to reflect on their problem and what kept it going, knowledge and strategies that they learned in therapy, and their goals for the future.
