Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Worksheets, Handouts, And Self-Help Resources
Psychology Tools CBT worksheets, exercises, information handouts, and therapy resources have been carefully designed to support your clinical work. Available in over 70 languages, each is downloadable in multiple formats to suit your therapy style.
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CBT Worksheets
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based form of psychological therapy. This means that a CBT therapist and their patient need to gather information about experiences and reactions including the thoughts, feelings, body sensations, behaviors that happen in and out of session. Collecting this information in written form is helpful because it externalizes our experience and makes information less prone to bias than information that is just ‘in our heads.’ CBT therapists and their patients will use data: from examining the validity and helpfulness of thoughts to looking for patterns in behavior. CBT worksheets are forms that are designed to be filled in. CBT worksheets can be used in many different ways including:forms that your patient uses to gather data outside sessions, such as a thought monitoring record or an activity diary;
forms that you and your patients complete together in-session such as a case formulation diagram; and
forms that you and your patients start in-session and complete outside session such as a behavioral experiment worksheet or a positive belief log.
Exercises
“If you always do what you’ve always done then you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”Jessie PotterCBT is a ‘doing therapy’ as much as a ‘talking therapy.’ This means that key therapeutic interventions are exercises that introduce a new way of thinking, acting, and, ultimately, feeling. Exercises are tasks that you can try with your patients in-session, or tasks that your patients can complete outside session. Popular exercises include diaphragmatic breathing, interoceptive exposure, and worry postponement.