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Recognition–Revision Checklist

A clinical checklist for tracking recognition and revision work across sessions, including prompts for therapeutic relationship patterns.

A checklist for tracking recognition and revision work across sessions.

Recognition work

  • Client can identify core reciprocal roles
  • Client can describe traps, dilemmas, and snags
  • Client spots patterns between sessions
  • Client notices patterns in therapy relationship
  • Client uses diagram as reference point
  • Client develops "observing eye" position

Revision work

  • Exits identified on diagram
  • Client experiments with exits outside sessions
  • Client practises exits in therapy relationship
  • Alternative reciprocal roles developing
  • Compassionate self-to-self relating emerging
  • Ending addressed explicitly

For clinical use by CAT practitioners.

Source: TheTherapies (thetherapies.vercel.app) — Part of Cognitive Analytic Therapy resources.