Simple Thought Challenging Record

The Simple Thought Challenging Record encourages clients to identify alternative perspectives to their negative thoughts.

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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.

This Simple Thought Challenging Record allows you to:

Identify your negative automatic thoughts
Explore and develop more balanced and helpful alternative thoughts

Overview

Disputing negative thoughts is an essential skill in cognitive therapy. The Simple Thought Challenging Record helps clients identify alternative perspectives to their negative thoughts. This worksheet assumes that clients have a basic understanding of the concept of challenging thoughts and presents a simplified version of the technique.

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Simple Thought Challenging Record