ABSTRACT
Allocating sufficient time on the session agenda to check on homework assignments communicates to the clients taking their completion seriously. Encourage use of the task assignment form have the clients hand this at the beginning of each therapy session. This will help you to gauge quickly the outcome of your client's self-help endeavours. If the clients have agreed to do data collection homework assignments, enquire what they learned from the data they have collected and also check to see if there are any gaps in the logs they kept. If the clients agreed to complete one of the various written self-help forms that are available, then need to go over it in a careful, step-by-step manner, reviewing and addressing any difficulties your clients may have made in completing the form. Sometimes the clients will have agreed to carry out a behavioural assignment and confront a specific activating event, but claim later that the event did not occur that week.
