Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Worksheets, Handouts, And Self-Help Resources
Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Guide
Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Guide
Understanding Depersonalization And Derealization
Guide
Understanding Psychosis
Guide
Understanding Social Anxiety
Guide
Understanding Generalized Anxiety And Worry
Guide
Understanding Health Anxiety
Guide
Understanding Depression
Guide
Understanding Low Self-Esteem
Guide
Understanding Panic
Guide
Understanding Anorexia
Guide
Understanding Bulimia
Guide
Understanding Perfectionism
Guide
Understanding Fears And Phobias
Guide
Understanding PTSD
Information Handout
Understanding My Panic
Information Handout
Understanding Burnout
Guide
Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Guide
CFT Compassion Formulation
Worksheet
Fight Or Flight Response
Information Handout
Recognizing A Hypomanic Episode
Information Handout
Recognizing A Manic Episode
Information Handout
Recognizing Agoraphobia
Information Handout
Recognizing Anorexia Nervosa
Information Handout
Recognizing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Information Handout
Recognizing Bipolar Disorder
Information Handout
Recognizing Bulimia Nervosa
Information Handout
Recognizing Depression
Information Handout
Recognizing Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Information Handout
Recognizing Insomnia
Information Handout
Recognizing Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Information Handout
Recognizing Panic Attacks And Panic Disorder
Information Handout
Recognizing Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)
Information Handout
Recognizing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Information Handout
Recognizing Social Anxiety Disorder
Information Handout
Recognizing Specific Phobia
Information Handout
Recognizing Depersonalization / Derealization Disorder (DPD)
Information Handout
What Is TF-CBT?
Information Handout
Panic Formulation
Worksheet
How We Hear Sounds
Information Handout
Cognitive Case Formulation
Worksheet
Reciprocal CBT Formulation
Worksheet
Theory A / Theory B
Worksheet
Alternative Action Formulation
Worksheet
Cognitive Behavioral Model Of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD: Ehlers & Clark, 2000)
Information Handout
Cross Sectional Formulation
Worksheet
Friendly Formulation
Worksheet
Longitudinal Formulation 1
Worksheet
Exploring Problems Using A Cross Sectional Model
Worksheet
Exploring Problems Using An A-B-C Model
Worksheet
PTSD Formulation
Worksheet
Anger – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheet
Anxiety – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheet
Attention – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheet
Boundaries – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheet
Depression – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheet
Dissociation – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheet
Flashbacks – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheet
Health Anxiety – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheet
Low Self-Esteem – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheet
Negative Thoughts – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheet
Panic – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheet
Rumination – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheet
Self-Criticism – Self-Monitoring Record
Worksheet
Self-Monitoring Record (Universal)
Worksheet
Anger Thought Challenging Record
Worksheet
Assertive Communication
Information Handout
Coercive Methods For Enforcing Compliance
Exercise
Compassionate Thought Challenging Record
Worksheet
Core Belief Magnet Metaphor
Information Handout
Forgiveness Quotes
Information Handout
Health Anxiety Self-Monitoring Record (Edition 1)
Worksheet
Health Anxiety Thought Record
Worksheet
How Breathing Affects Feelings
Exercise
Interoceptive Exposure
Exercise
Longitudinal Formulation 2
Worksheet
PTSD Film Projection Metaphor
Information Handout
Safety Behaviors
Information Handout
Schema Formulation
Worksheet
Schema Metaphors
Information Handout
What Kinds of Resources Are Available on This Page?
CBT Worksheets
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based form of psychological therapy. This means that a CBT therapist and their patient need to gather information about experiences and reactions including the thoughts, feelings, body sensations, behaviors that happen in and out of session. Collecting this information in written form is helpful because it externalizes our experience and makes information less prone to bias than information that is just ‘in our heads.’ CBT therapists and their patients will use data: from examining the validity and helpfulness of thoughts to looking for patterns in behavior. CBT worksheets are forms that are designed to be filled in. CBT worksheets can be used in many different ways including:
- forms that your patient uses to gather data outside sessions, such as a thought monitoring record or an activity diary;
- forms that you and your patients complete together in-session such as a case formulation diagram; and
- forms that you and your patients start in-session and complete outside session such as a behavioral experiment worksheet or a positive belief log.
Exercises
“If you always do what you’ve always done then you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
CBT is a ‘doing therapy’ as much as a ‘talking therapy.’ This means that key therapeutic interventions are exercises that introduce a new way of thinking, acting, and, ultimately, feeling. Exercises are tasks that you can try with your patients in-session, or tasks that your patients can complete outside session. Popular exercises include diaphragmatic breathing, interoceptive exposure, and worry postponement.
Information Handouts
A core feature of many cognitive models is the focus on (mis)appraisals that people make concerning an event or stimulus. For example, people who panic misinterpret benign body sensations as indicating potential catastrophe, and people who experience symptoms of psychosis misinterpret anomalous experiences as being externally generated. One way of working therapeutically with interpretations is to offer corrective information that our patients did not have before. Information handouts are helpful when your patients have a knowledge deficit, or when it may be helpful to normalize an experience. Psychology Tools information handouts are concise, accurate, and informative one-page introductions to a topic.
Guides
A fundamental principle of CBT is that we are teaching our patients skills in a manner that means they will be able to remember and apply them flexibly in their lives. Time-limited treatments mean that clinicians often have to compromise between teaching fewer skills in-depth or more skills with less coverage. Psychology Tools guides are an effective way of helping your patients to confidently implement the skills that you teach. Guides help your patients to review all of the essential background to a topic and then lead them through the practical steps needed to implement a skill.