Handout: Building an Exposure Hierarchy Worksheet

Provides worksheets to help individuals and clinicians create an exposure hierarchy for ERP treatment. Users identify situations, thoughts, or triggers associated with OCD and organize them according to anticipated difficulty… Read more »

Handout: Conceptualizing OCD Symptoms

Helps individuals and clinicians map the relationship between OCD triggers, intrusive thoughts or images, emotional responses, compulsions, avoidance, and short- and long-term consequences. By visually organizing the OCD cycle, the… Read more »

Handout: The OCD Cycle

Visually illustrates the cycle through which an intrusive thought, image, feeling, or situation triggers distress; the person responds with a compulsion or avoidance behavior; and temporary relief reinforces the cycle…. Read more »