Mindfulness and Compulsions in OCD

At the end of session 4, you will start to wrap up and set what their home practice will be. And as with anything learned in the sessions, your clients will learn more as they apply them in their life and when they're practicing out of the session

So after you introduce and practice being present in the session, discuss ways that they can practice this at home or outside of the session. And I recommend my clients complete at least one task a day mindfully and that can be more formal practices but it can also be more informal practices. Depending on what you do with them in session, you can discuss with them on what really spoke to them, what fit with them and how they'd like to integrate that into their life for the week but really focusing on the fact that this is something that needs to be done regularly for it to be useful.

Twohig, M. P. (2004). ACT for OCD: Abbreviated treatment manual [Unpublished treatment manual]. University of Nevada.

I will provide audio recordings for them to listen to if their practice is like the one that we did in the last video. I will record myself doing that and then that's available to my clients through my website which you're all welcome to go to if you would like and you can share that with clients as well. We discuss the daily practices that they're going to be doing mindfully, so if this is going to be a specific activity like brushing their teeth or playing with their child, scrolling through their phone, eating.

Twohig, M. P. (2004). ACT for OCD: Abbreviated treatment manual [Unpublished treatment manual]. University of Nevada.