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CBT Daily Activity Diary With Enjoyment And Mastery Ratings

This CBT Daily Activity Diary is designed to help clients identify activities associated with experiences of pleasure and mastery.

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CBT Daily Activity Diary With Enjoyment And Mastery Ratings

Doing the things that matter to you is an effective way to improve your mood. It can increase your sense of pleasure, give you a sense of achievement (or ‘mastery’), and create more opportunities to connect with people.

This CBT Daily Activity Diary allows you to:

  • Plan tasks and activities.
  • Monitor how much pleasure and mastery your activities gave you.
  • Keep a record of what you’ve done.
  • Understand how your activity affects your mood.

Overview

Activity diaries can be used for activity monitoring during an assessment phase of therapy, symptom monitoring during therapy, correlating activity with symptoms, or activity scheduling as part of behavioral activation. This well-known activity diary is often used in work with depressed clients, and includes space for enjoyment and mastery ratings. It can be used for assessing key moments in the week where the client felt enjoyment during an activity, or felt mastery (a sense of accomplishment while participating in the activity). Once key activities have been identified which lead to feelings of enjoyment and mastery, more similar activities can be scheduled for subsequent weeks to build a sense of self-efficacy and self-esteem.

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