Health Anxiety – Self-Monitoring Record
The Health Anxiety – Self-Monitoring Record is a structured tool designed to collect valuable information about how clients experience health anxiety.
Health Anxiety - Self-Monitoring Record
Minor concerns about your health are normal, and they can sometimes be helpful. If you struggle with health anxiety, worries about your health can take over your life and cause a lot of distress. Some of the key symptoms of health anxiety include:
- Looking out for signs of illness all the time.
- Worrying about your health or becoming unwell.
- Intrusive thoughts and images about illness and death.
- Spending so much time preventing illness that it interferes with your life.
One way to learn more about your health anxiety is to use a self-monitoring record. It’s like a diary that can help you become more aware of what triggers your health anxiety, your response to it, and the role your thoughts play.
Complete this record whenever you feel anxious about your health or as your therapist has instructed.
Overview
Developing self-monitoring skills teaches clients to systematically observe and record specific targets such as their own thoughts, body feelings, emotions, and behaviors. Though it’s usually introduced early in the therapy process, it can continue to provide an inexpensive and constant measure of problem symptoms and behaviors throughout treatment. The Health Anxiety – Self-Monitoring Record is designed to help clients capture information about situations in which their health concerns are present or amplified.
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