Stress-Vulnerability Worksheet

Stress-Vulnerability Worksheet is a CCI CBT for Psychotic Symptoms formulation worksheet for practitioners and clients. It helps connect symptoms or episodes with vulnerability factors, current or historical stressors, risk factors, and protective factors so the formulation can inform coping, support, and treatment planning.

CBTCase formulationAssessmentIntervention planningPsychosisRelapse prevention

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Tool guide

Learn more about this tool

Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.

When It Is Used

Use it during psychoeducation or formulation when the practitioner and client need a shared explanation connecting episodes or symptoms with stress, vulnerability, risk, and protection.

What It Captures

The worksheet captures vulnerability factors, stressors, risk factors, protective factors, client examples, coping resources, supports, and strengths.

Relevant Limits

The tool does not produce a relapse-risk score, diagnostic conclusion, causal inference, or medication instruction.

Is this a symptom checklist?

No. It is a formulation map that organizes vulnerabilities, stressors, risk factors, and protective factors.

Can the demo show a diagram?

Yes. Representation style can be diagram-first or worksheet-list-first while preserving the same formulation content.

Does the system decide what caused symptoms?

No. The system organizes reported and practitioner-entered material but does not infer causality.

What gets saved?

The tool itself and selected setup are saved. Fictional demo examples are not saved as real client data.