Worksheet: Re-evaluating Coping Behaviour

Worksheet: Re-evaluating Coping Behaviour Copyright © Donald Robertson, 2012.  All rights reserved. These questions are designed to help you re-evaluate and perhaps challenge your existing ways of coping when anxious, or dealing with similar problems.  Feel free to skip questions … Continue reading

Initial Assessment Questions: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

This article contains a series of questions about obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms designed to help you describe your problem for assessment in cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT).

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Appraisal of Obsessions & Compulsions

This article provides examples of questions potentially used in Metacognitive Therapy to help understand (conceptualise) obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

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What not to Think: The Distortion-Spotting Exercise

This short article describes an exercise for reflecting upon and identifying potential “thinking errors” using cognitive therapy.

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Some Questions about Core Beliefs

This short article contains an exercise comprised of a series of questions designed to help you clarify the developmental history of a negative core belief about yourself and re-evaluate the evidence for and against it being true.

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Value Clarification Exercises

This short exercise uses a handful of questions to help you clarify your personal values and consider how they could be more fully integrated in your life.

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The Vicious Cycle of Anxiety

This article summarises a simplified “clock face” or vicious cycle model of anxiety based on Beck’s (2010) revised cognitive model of anxiety.

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Beck’s Cognitive Model of Anxiety

This is a brief explanation of Beck’s generic cognitive model of anxiety (revised) with questions to help you formulate a cognitive conceptualisation of a specific example situation.

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Problem-Domain Analysis Form (Revised)

This is a short assessment form used to provide an overview of problems in different domains of life and focus on goals, obstacles, coping, and worry, in the most problematic areas.

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What Makes your Problem a Problem?

This short article provides some questions to help you analyse a situation in CBT terms by looking at the different elements of the problem and how they might influence each other.

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