10 evidence-based resources for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Preview any worksheet, then assign it to a client as an interactive digital worksheet.
Two strands run through CBT for OCD, and this collection resources both. The cognitive strand is grounded in Salkovskis' cognitive model (1985): intrusions are a universal experience, and on this account it is the appraisal of them — inflated responsibility, thought-action fusion — and the neutralising that follows that turns intrusion into disorder. Map that cycle with the OCD Formulation (Salkovskis), then test appraisals directly with the responsibility appraisal, contamination reappraisal, and thought-action fusion experiment worksheets.
The behavioural strand is exposure and response prevention: the ERP Hierarchy Builder structures a graded hierarchy with SUDS ratings, and an ERP practice record carries it into between-session work. Monitoring diaries — including one dedicated to mental compulsions, which are easy to miss — and two psychoeducation handouts complete the set. The Salkovskis model is also free to explore as an interactive, referenced formulation diagram.
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A formulation based on Salkovskis' cognitive model of OCD — mapping intrusions, responsibility appraisals, distress, and neutralising behaviours.
Build a graded exposure hierarchy for Exposure and Response Prevention therapy. List anxiety-provoking situations, rate them, and plan structured exposures.
Track OCD episodes — intrusions, appraisals, rituals, distress, and duration — to identify patterns and measure progress.
Log exposure and response prevention practice sessions with SUDS ratings, urge strength, and whether you resisted the compulsion.
Challenge inflated responsibility beliefs that drive OCD by examining the appraisal and generating realistic alternatives.
Test the belief that thinking something makes it more likely to happen (likelihood TAF) or that thinking something is morally equivalent to doing it (moral TAF).
Challenge contamination-specific appraisals by examining the realistic probability of harm, the role of disgust vs danger, and what "clean enough" means.
Track covert / mental compulsions — mental reviewing, counting, praying, reassuring self — which are often missed because they're invisible.
A plain-language explainer on what OCD really is: unwanted intrusive thoughts and the compulsions used to relieve them, why it happens, and a reassuring note on taboo and harm intrusions.
A maintenance-cycle explainer on how compulsions and avoidance bring short-term relief but keep OCD going, and how Exposure and Response Prevention breaks the cycle.
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Request a worksheetExposure and response prevention — graded exposure to obsessional triggers while resisting the compulsion that usually neutralises the anxiety. The ERP Hierarchy Builder structures the graded hierarchy with SUDS ratings, and the ERP Practice Record captures each practice: anticipated versus actual distress, urges to ritualise, and what the client took from it.
Yes. The Mental Compulsion Monitoring Diary is dedicated to covert rituals — counting, mental review, silent repeating, undoing — which standard compulsion monitoring easily misses. It pairs naturally with the Thought-Action Fusion Experiment for testing the appraisals that drive covert neutralising.
The OCD Formulation (Salkovskis) maps the cognitive model much of CBT for OCD is built on: intrusion, appraisal (inflated responsibility, thought-action fusion), distress, and the neutralising that feeds the cycle back into itself. The same model is free to explore as an interactive diagram, linked from the top of this page.