Perspective-Taking

The Perspective-Taking worksheet is a cognitive restructuring tool designed to help clients view their difficulties from alternative viewpoints.

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Hundreds of ‘automatic’ thoughts pop into our minds every day, often without us noticing. Depending on their content, these thoughts can lead to different emotions, including anxiety, anger, and sadness (to name just a few). Our thoughts can also be biased: not every thought we have is 100% accurate or helpful.

One of the best ways to evaluate your thoughts is to look at them from different perspectives. The Perspective-Taking worksheet can help you identify and examine your automatic thoughts from different points of view.

Complete this record whenever you experience a negative automatic thought or notice a change in your mood, or as your therapist has instructed.

Overview

Cognitive restructuring techniques in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teach clients ways of analyzing situations in ways that might initially be unfamiliar. A simple way of introducing cognitive restructuring is by framing it as perspective-taking: trying to look at difficulties from different points of view.

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Perspective-Taking