The Thought Record - Considered Response is designed to help clients identify, evaluate, and respond to their automatic thoughts using a structured process.
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.
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The Thought Record - Considered Response is rooted in Beck's cognitive model, which emphasizes the role that automatic thoughts play in emotional distress and problematic behaviors. This worksheet guides clients in identifying triggering events, emotions, negative automatic thoughts, and developing considered responses to these cognitions.
Professionals can use this tool to help clients identify automatic thoughts, question them, and reduce biases in their thinking that impact their mental health.
Re-evaluating thoughts related to hopelessness or self-blame.
Helping clients to recognize and respond to fear-inducing catastrophic thoughts.
Addressing unhelpful and distressing self-critical thoughts.
Help clients identify situations that led to a change in their mood.
Record emotions and their intensity in the second column.
Identify key automatic thoughts (including images and memories).
Encourage clients to helpful, considered responses to their automatic thoughts.
Assess how much the client believes their considered response.
Beck’s cognitive therapy model emphasizes that events themselves do not determine emotional responses; rather, it is our interpretation of these events. The Thought Record - Considered Response helps clients identify and respond to distressing or problematic thoughts.
Through cognitive restructuring tasks like the Thought Record, clients learn to identify and challenge their automatic thoughts, promoting more accurate and helpful ways of thinking.
