This document provides templates for matching treatment interventions to common problems in cognitive behavioral therapy. It lists problems commonly seen in functioning such as being overwhelmed or having poor motivation and recommends initial interventions like self-assessment, psychoeducation, or behavioral scheduling. For more complex issues, it recommends second-line interventions like relapse prevention planning, impulse control planning, or anxiety-specific treatments. The templates are meant to aid clinical decision-making in selecting appropriate CBT interventions based on the identified problems.
This document provides templates for matching treatment interventions to common problems in cognitive behavioral therapy. It lists problems commonly seen in functioning such as being overwhelmed or having poor motivation and recommends initial interventions like self-assessment, psychoeducation, or behavioral scheduling. For more complex issues, it recommends second-line interventions like relapse prevention planning, impulse control planning, or anxiety-specific treatments. The templates are meant to aid clinical decision-making in selecting appropriate CBT interventions based on the identified problems.
This document provides templates for matching treatment interventions to common problems in cognitive behavioral therapy. It lists problems commonly seen in functioning such as being overwhelmed or having poor motivation and recommends initial interventions like self-assessment, psychoeducation, or behavioral scheduling. For more complex issues, it recommends second-line interventions like relapse prevention planning, impulse control planning, or anxiety-specific treatments. The templates are meant to aid clinical decision-making in selecting appropriate CBT interventions based on the identified problems.
This document provides templates for matching treatment interventions to common problems in cognitive behavioral therapy. It lists problems commonly seen in functioning such as being overwhelmed or having poor motivation and recommends initial interventions like self-assessment, psychoeducation, or behavioral scheduling. For more complex issues, it recommends second-line interventions like relapse prevention planning, impulse control planning, or anxiety-specific treatments. The templates are meant to aid clinical decision-making in selecting appropriate CBT interventions based on the identified problems.
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The Flexible CBT Approach: Online Textbook and Training Program
Templates for Treatment Planning (from Module 3)
First Line Clinical Decision-Making:
Matching Treatment Interventions to Problems
If these problems: Then consider these interventions:
Identify Problems in Functioning Self-Assessment Skills: Learn Triangle to
o Overwhelmed with problems differentiate problems into thoughts, behaviors, o Main focus on distressing feelings without and feelings sense of agency De-construct into small chunks as concretely as o Unclear about priorities possible Work collaboratively to prioritize starting points for treatment
Unclear of diagnosis / condition Basic Psychoeducation to provide frame of
reference for problems
Minimal daily Life structure Behavioral Scheduling/Behavioral Activation
o Inertia o Build activities one at a time o Little or no motivation o Sleep Hygiene routine o Poor sleep patterns o Move toward balance of o Depressed mood mastery/pleasure/self-care
Poor sense of life patterns Self-Assessment: Review flow of triangle
o Does not see causal sequences Description skills for life context o Unclear of triggers Chain Analysis (macro /micro o May see patterns, but doesn’t change o Identify Triggers / typical reactions o Consider alternatives Pervasive Negative Thoughts Distinguish thoughts and feelings o Self-critical patterns Mood Monitor/Thought records o Ruminative thoughts o Guided discovery/Question Evidence o Automatically thinks negatively o Identify Cognitive Distortions o Related to depressed mood o “Don’t believe everything you think” Practice in and outside session
Social Isolation and Avoidance Use triangle to describe patterns
o Avoiding people Assess anxiety, shame, inertia o Hiding out Behavioral Scheduling—one social contact at a o Shame time o Fear of change Focus on how to ask for help
o Anticipatory Anxiety Psychoeducation on fear of anxious feelings o Physiological Anxiety Psychoeducation about Avoidance o Avoidance Teach normalized breathing Introduce concept of Acceptance The Flexible CBT Approach: Online Textbook and Training Program Templates for Treatment Planning (from Module 3)
Second Line Clinical Decision-Making:
Complex Skills to Match Interventions to Problems
If these problems: Then consider these interventions:
Patterns of Relapse Relapse Prevention (RP) Plan
o Depression o Integrate Self-Assessment and Behavioral o Anxiety Coping Skills o Personality Disorders o Focus on triggers and patterns of reactions o Bipolar Disorder Tailor RP plan to specific patterns related to o Substance Abuse diagnostic profile
Self-Destructive Behaviors Impulse Control Plan
o Self-harm o Identify triggers and sequences of reactions o Self Injurious Behaviors (SIB) o Integrate Self-Assessment and Behavioral Coping Skills Distress Tolerance o First move away from distress o Advanced skill to accept and tolerate distress
Anxiety Disorders Use Barlow’s Unified Treatment Interventions
o Social Anxiety o Cognitive Re-Appraisals o Panic Disorder o Behavioral Activation despite anxiety o Generalized Anxiety Disorder o Exposure Identify need for more formal protocol for specific anxiety disorder, or that general approach suffices for this stage of treatment
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