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    The graded exposure worksheet is a cognitive behavioral therapy technique used to help people overcome their fears. It involves creating a hierarchy of feared situations rated by distress level, from most to least feared. Patients then gradually expose themselves to the least feared situations, building up their tolerance over time in a safe environment to reduce avoidance and anxiety associated with their fears.

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    The graded exposure worksheet is a cognitive behavioral therapy technique used to help people overcome their fears. It involves creating a hierarchy of feared situations rated by distress level, from most to least feared. Patients then gradually expose themselves to the least feared situations, building up their tolerance over time in a safe environment to reduce avoidance and anxiety associated with their fears.

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    The graded exposure worksheet is a cognitive behavioral therapy technique used to help people overcome their fears. It involves creating a hierarchy of feared situations rated by distress level, from most to least feared. Patients then gradually expose themselves to the least feared situations, building up their tolerance over time in a safe environment to reduce avoidance and anxiety associated with their fears.

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    Graded Exposure Worksheet

    Graded Exposure is a CBT technique that is designed to help people confront and overcome their fears.
    When people are fearful of something, they tend to avoid it.

    While this avoidance may help in reducing feelings of fear in the short term, over the long term it can
    make the fear even worse.

    Graded exposure involves creating a safe environment in which clients can become “exposed” to the things
    they fear and avoid. The exposure to the feared objects, activities or situations in a safe environment
    helps reduce fear and decrease avoidance.

    The Graded Exposure worksheet includes 4 steps:

    1. Make a list of feared situations that you tend to avoid. For example, someone with social anxiety
    may typically avoid making a phone call or asking someone on a date.

    2. Rate each item according to how distressed you would feel if you encountered that situation, on
    a scale from 0 to 100% (0 = not at all distressed and 100 = extremely distressed). For the person
    suffering with severe social anxiety, asking someone on a date may be rated a 10 on the scale,
    while making a phone call instead might be rated closer to a 3 or 4.

    3. Rank items from most-feared (i.e., highest distress rating) at the top of the staircase to least-feared
    (i.e., lowest distress rating) at the bottom of the staircase.

    4. The staircase can now be used to guide a process of the graded exposure. Clients can be guided
    to start exposing themselves to the least-feared items, building up as more confidence is gained.
    Key principles of exposure should be discussed (e.g. stay in situation without escaping, attempt
    multiple repeats of each exposure to encourage extinction).

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    Worksheet

    Construct a staircase with situations you tend to avoid because of fear or anxiety, with most-feared items
    at the top and least-feared items at the bottom. Rate each item according to how distressed you would
    feel if you encountered that situation, on a scale from 0 to 10 (0 = not at all distressed and 10 = extremely
    distressed).

    Most
    Feared
    Situation

    Anxiety
    Rating
    /100%

    /100%

    /100%

    /100%

    /100%

    /100%

    Least Anxiety
    Feared Rating
    Situation /100%

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