Cognitive Mindfulness Workbook

From Tom Gibbons, MSW at presence-awareness.com, here's a free, 55-page "Cognitive Mindfulness Workbook." Learn CBT essentials, apply them with included worksheets, and, hopefully, start to feel better.

Cognitive Distortions & Depression Mood Chart

These have appeared elsewhere on the site, but...uploaded them again, so posting them again: the Cognitive Distortions according to CBT, by way of David Burns's Feeling Good Handbook.

And here's a Tought Log how-to (at mindtools.com--please let me know if you know of a better one). Which Cognitive Distortion best describes each of your automatic thoughts...?

While on the topic, here's a Daily Mood Chart for Depression from psychology4change.com--a log and a sheet of instructions.

Dysfunctional Beliefs Handout

Buried amongst the many riches of the Specialty Behavioral Health site, here's a page about Dysfunctional Beliefs--a blend of cognitive distortions and some other good stuff (e.g., Self-Centeredness, Fallacy of Fairness).

Big CBT Worksheet Page

From getselfhelp.co.uk, bunches of CBT worksheets. Lots of good stuff, including:

• Anxiety, Depression, Assertiveness, Relaxation, Self-Esteem, Bipolar Disorder, Pain

Just to name a few.

CBT Worksheet Set

Another site half-full of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy worksheets: Specialty Behavioral Health. Includes thought records, cognitive distortions...the works. Click on "Downloadable PDFs" in the left-hand column for links to additional pages about Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, OCD, Substance Abuse...and Optimism.

Smart Recovery Worksheets

Another worksheet motherlode, this time at smartrecovery.org. Sections include...

• Self-Acceptance
• Stages of Change
• Rational Thinking (aka CBT)

Pages about Core Beliefs, Cognitive Distortions, REBT, Family Systems, and more.

What's Smart Recovery? Had to look it up. Says wikipedia:

SMART Recovery (Self Management and Recovery Training) is an international non-profit organization which provides assistance to individuals seeking abstinence from addictive behaviors. The approach used is secular and science-based using non-confrontational motivational, behavioral and cognitive methods. Substance/activity dependence is viewed by the organization as a dysfunctional habit (rather than a disease), while allowing that it is possible that certain people have a predisposition towards addictive behavior.

Not the Twelve Steps. CBT, not HP. Enjoy.

DBT Extras

More DBT help at--where else?--dbtselfhelp.com. These DBT Extras include:

• Diary Cards
• Flow Charts
• Cognitive Distortions
• Behavior Chain Analysis

...among other items. Again, the Skills Training Manual is your best bet for figuring out what to do with these. Make Marsha Linehan smile. But, then, that costs.

Cognitive Distortions Handouts

Many have taken a stab at a clean, simple, and easily understood cognitive distortions handout--some are listed below.

I'll add links as I come across them. Feel free to submit your own: therapyworksheets [at] gmail.com.

• Healthymind.com (requires cut & paste)
• Lynn Martin (brief and full versions)