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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

 Anxiety  Psychoeducation re: anticipatory anxiety


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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