The Self-Monitoring Record - Universal helps clients systematically observe and record specific targets such as their thoughts, body feelings, emotions, and behaviors.
Offers theory, guidance, and prompts for mental health professionals. Downloads are in Fillable PDF format where appropriate.
Includes client-friendly guidance. Downloads are in Fillable PDF format where appropriate.
An editable Microsoft PowerPoint version of the resource.
An editable Microsoft Word version of the resource.
Self-monitoring is a key intervention in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), allowing clients to record specific targets such as problematic thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. By increasing clients' awareness of these experiences, self-monitoring can provide insights into these difficulties, support collaboration, and test hypotheses in therapy.
This resource provides regular and extended self-monitoring forms, catering to different therapeutic needs.
Self-monitoring is a dual-purpose technique that can support both assessment and intervention in CBT.
Monitor self-critical and ruminatory thoughts.
Track triggers of anxiety symptoms.
Understand the situations, thoughts, and emotions linked to disordered eating.
Agree a specific target for monitoring (e.g., feeling anxious).
Choose situations or cues as will act as a prompt for data collection.
Encourage clients to document relevant situations, thoughts, emotions, and responses.
Use records to identify patterns and develop hypotheses.
Self-monitoring can inform assessment and intervention, and is often used in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). It is designed to enhance awareness of experiences that might go unnoticed or may not be easily observed.
Self-monitoring involves two key steps. It begins with discrimination, where clients learn to identify and recognize specific target phenomena. This is followed by the recording phase, which consists of systematically documenting these occurrences. For effective self-monitoring, training and consistency are important so that clients can get the most from tool.
