Clients working on health anxiety, illness anxiety or repeated worries about symptoms may find this final CBT module useful for keeping progress going after earlier work. It brings together the main strategies from the Helping Health Anxiety programme, including reducing checking, reassurance seeking and avoidance, and turns them into a practical self-management approach.
The Health Anxiety Self-Management Planning PDF Module is a structured CBT-based workbook for consolidating progress and preparing for future challenges. It helps users look again at the health anxiety cycle, including triggers, symptom monitoring, checking, reassurance seeking, avoidance and other safety behaviours. The module then guides the reader towards a more balanced response, using strategies such as attention training, worry postponement, thought records and gradual practice with feared situations.
This downloadable resource is suitable for adults working on health anxiety, illness anxiety, hypochondria or persistent worries about bodily sensations. It can also support counsellors, CBT therapists and mental health practitioners who want a clear handout for session work, therapy homework or guided self-help. The content is practical rather than lengthy, making it useful for reviewing progress, planning next steps and encouraging independent use of previously learned skills.
Inside the module, users are prompted to identify early warning signs, likely trigger situations, unhelpful health rules and coping responses that have worked well before. It can be used to create a relapse prevention plan, prepare for appointments, support revision of CBT techniques or build a personalised self-management plan that can be printed and revisited when needed.
Use this PDF module as a final planning tool at the end of a health anxiety programme, or keep it as a reference for maintaining gains and responding more confidently to future worries.
