Thought record

The CBT Thought Record is an essential tool in cognitive behavioral therapy. Thought challenging records help people to evaluate their negative automatic thoughts for accuracy and bias. This CBT Thought Record is in portrait format.

This negative self-talk tracker is adapted from the CBT exercise of creating a thought record, and challenging thoughts. When working with the inner critic, it can be imperative to challenge, and restructure the thoughts that the inner critic part of you has you believing. This activity helps you identify negative thoughts, challenge them, and create more adaptive, loving, gentle, and kind thoughts to replace your negative thinking patterns with over time.

Thought records are like the Swiss Army knife of CBT. They're used to teach about the interactions between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and as a...

Track thought patterns, and automatic negative thoughts using a CBT thought record. Work on replacing maladaptive thoughts with more adaptive or soothing thoughts. Learn how to challenge automatic negative thoughts!

This is the thought record printable that I personally keep in my planner. I never liked the ones that typically come in CBT books and the like, with the very long narrow columns; they're so difficult to write in! I'm a journaler, so I was always scrunching tons of tiny writing into those awkward columns. I designed this worksheet with horizontal sections to give me plenty of room to write on each prompt. The prompts are my original interpretations of the CBT thought challenging process…

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on altering our thought patterns in order to decrease the emotional distress that comes with struggling with cognitive distortions. This CBT thought record is used to help you increase awareness of your cognitive distortions, become more mindful of your thoughts, and learn to challenge your thoughts to improve your thought patterns over time. The thought record can be used on your own or with the support of a licensed therapist :) 💜 WHATS INCLUDED…

Learn more about and download our Automatic Thought Record Worksheet.

Self-monitoring of thoughts, feelings, and symptoms is an essential skill in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). This Simple Thought Record is an excellent introduction to the process of collecting (negative) automatic thoughts, emotions, and the situations in which they are experienced.

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This Thought Record is a cognitive restructuring worksheet which guides clients through a process of carefully considering the evidence for and against their automatic thoughts–a process Beck refers to as ‘examining and reality testing’.