Recommending is how you point a patient to the parts of the library you think will help them most. You tick a module or an individual session in the patient's record, and it is marked in their app as a 'clinician pick'.
It changes what the patient notices, not what they can reach. Nothing is hidden, nothing is locked, and the core program is untouched. A recommendation does not alter progression or completion, and it never gates anything the patient could already open.
How to recommend something
Open the patient and go to the Talking Therapy tab. The Bonus Modules card carries the picker:
To recommend a whole module, tick the checkbox beside it.
To recommend particular sessions, open the module and tick the sessions you want inside it.
Untick a module or a session to withdraw it, which is written the same way.
Who can recommend
Recommending and withdrawing both need the manage patients permission. Colleagues without it still see everything that has been recommended, and who recommended it, but the checkboxes are unavailable to them.
What the patient sees
A recommended module carries a Clinician pick marker in the patient's Explore tab, and it moves to the top of its category group so it is the first thing they see there. Opening it shows a line saying it was recommended by their clinician.
A recommended session carries the same Clinician pick marker on its row inside the module. Sessions stay in their usual order rather than moving, so the shape of the module is unchanged.
The patient is not instructed to do any of it and is not blocked from anything else. It reads as a suggestion from the person looking after them, which is usually enough to get it opened.
When to use it
Recommending works best straight after you have heard something specific. A patient who describes trouble getting to sleep can be pointed at the sleep material; a patient who keeps returning to one worry can be pointed at the session that addresses it. The value is in the match between what they told you and what you picked.
A short list lands better than a long one. Two or three picks read as a considered suggestion, while a dozen reads as a second program to get through. It is worth saying at the end of the appointment what you have recommended and why, so it is not a surprise the next time they open the app.