Thought Record - Considered Response
The Thought Record - Considered Response is designed to help clients identify, evaluate, and respond to their automatic thoughts using a structured process.
Thought Record (Considered Response)
Hundreds of ‘automatic’ thoughts pop into our minds every day, often without us noticing. Depending on their content, these thoughts can lead us to feel different emotions, like joy, anxiety, anger, or sadness (to name a few). Our thoughts can also be biased: not every thought we have is 100% accurate or helpful.
The Thought Record (Considered Response) will help you become more aware of your negative automatic thoughts. It will also guide you in re-evaluating and responding to these thoughts.
Fill in this thought record whenever notice a negative automatic thought or experience a change in your mood.
Overview
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.
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