OCD BEHAVIOURAL EXPERIMENT WORKSHEET
On this page, we will provide you with an OCD Behavioural Experiment Worksheet. It will help you to test your beliefs by using behavioral experiments as a technique.
What is an OCD Behavioural Experiment Worksheet?
OCD refers to having obsessive thoughts that lead to compulsions. It is a common, chronic, and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and/or behaviors (compulsions) that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over. If you don’t control or deal with these thoughts effectively then, they can make your life difficult. Behavioral experiments are an important tool that is used in behavioral therapy to test the accuracy of thoughts. It is an information-gathering exercise, the purpose of which is to test the accuracy of an individual’s beliefs (about themselves, others, and the world) or to test new, more adaptive beliefs.
How an OCD Behavioural Experiment Worksheet will help?
The behavioral experiments are useful to change the irrational negative thoughts into positive ones, but they are done by providing evidence. Behavioral experiments are carried out in reality to see the truth of the existing thought. What you think and believe isn’t always true. But holding onto some of those beliefs might cause you to suffer. That is why to test the validity of the thoughts behavioral experiments are carried out.
Instructions on how to use OCD Behavioural Experiment Worksheet.
It is not right to think that you can never be wrong, testing your thoughts will help you to give a new direction to your life. Follow the steps mentioned in the worksheet to carry out the behavioral experiment successfully.
Other worksheets you may be interested in
Below are links to a few more worksheets which are closely related to the worksheet above.
Printable CBT for OCD worksheets: Version 2
Conclusion
On this page, we provided you with an OCD Behavioural Experiment Worksheet, which hopefully helped you to test your beliefs by using behavioral experiments as a technique.
If you have any questions or comments please let us know.
Mental help Resources
The worksheets on this site should not be used in place of professional advice from a mental health professional.
You should always seek help from a mental health professional or medical professional. We are not providing any advice or recommendations here.
There are various resources where you can seek help.
You could use Online-Therapy if you feel you need counselling.
If you live in the UK then this list of resources from the NHS may help you find help.
If you live in the USA then you could contact Mental Health America who may be able to assist you further.
