Appendix 1

Worksheets and Checklists

Contents
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Case Formulation Worksheet

Automatic Thoughts Checklist

Thought Change Record

Examining the Evidence for Automatic Thoughts Worksheet

Weekly Activity Schedule

Schema Inventory

Examining the Evidence for Schemas Worksheet

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Supervision Checklist

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Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Case Formulation Worksheet

Patient Name: Date:

Diagnoses/Symptoms:

Formative Influences:

Situational Issues:

Biological, Genetic, and Medical Factors:

Strengths/Assets:

Treatment Goals:

Event 1 Event 2 Event 3

Automatic Thoughts Automatic Thoughts Automatic Thoughts

Emotions Emotions Emotions

Behaviors Behaviors Behaviors

Schemas:

Working Hypothesis:

Treatment Plan:
Automatic Thoughts Checklist
Instructions: Place a check mark beside each negative automatic thought that you have had in the past 2 weeks.

_____ I should be doing better in life.

_____ He/she doesn’t understand me.

_____ I’ve let him/her down.

_____ I just can’t enjoy things anymore.

_____ Why am I so weak?

_____ I always keep messing things up.

_____ My life’s going nowhere.

_____ I can’t handle it.

_____ I’m failing.

_____ It’s too much for me.

_____ I don’t have much of a future.

_____ Things are out of control.

_____ I feel like giving up.

_____ Something bad is sure to happen.

_____ There must be something wrong with me.

Adapted with permission from Wright JH, Wright AS, Beck AT: Good Days Ahead: The Multimedia Program for Cognitive Therapy.
Louisville, KY, Mindstreet, 2004. Permission is granted for readers to use this item in clinical practice.
Thought Change Record
Situation Automatic thought(s) Emotion(s) Rational response Outcome
Describe
a. Actual event leading to a. Write automatic a. Specify sad, anxious, angry, a. Identify cognitive errors. a. Specify and rate
unpleasant emotion or thought(s) that preceded etc. b. Write rational response to subsequent emotion(s),
b. Stream of thoughts emotion(s). b. Rate degree of emotion, automatic thought(s). 0%–100%.
leading to unpleasant b. Rate belief in automatic 1%–100%. c. Rate belief in rational b. Describe changes in
emotion or thought(s), 0%–100%. response, 0%–100%. behavior.
c. Unpleasant physiological
sensations.

Source. Adapted from Beck AT, Rush AJ, Shaw BF, et al: Cognitive Therapy of Depression. New York, Guilford, 1979, pp. 164–165. Used with permission.
Examining the Evidence for Automatic Thoughts Worksheet

Instructions:
1. Identify a negative or troubling automatic thought.
2. Then list all the evidence that you can find that either supports (“evidence for”) or disproves (“evidence against”) the
automatic thought.
3. After trying to find cognitive errors in the “evidence for” column, you can write revised or alternative thoughts at the
bottom of the page.
Automatic thought:

Evidence for automatic thought: Evidence against automatic thought:

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

5. 5.

Cognitive errors:

Alternative thoughts:

Adapted with permission from Wright JH, Wright AS, Beck AT: Good Days Ahead: The Multimedia Program for Cognitive Therapy.
Louisville, KY, Mindstreet, 2004. Permission is granted for readers to use this item in clinical practice.
Weekly Activity Schedule
Instructions: Write down your activities for each hour and then rate them on a scale of 0–10 for mastery (m) or degree of accomplishment and for pleasure
(p) or amount of enjoyment you experienced. A rating of 0 would mean that you had no sense of mastery or pleasure. A rating of 10 would mean that
you experienced maximum mastery or pleasure.
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

8:00 A.M.

9:00 A.M.

10:00 A.M.

11:00 A.M.

12:00 P.M.

1:00 P.M.

2:00 P.M.

3:00 P.M.

4:00 P.M.

5:00 P.M.

6:00 P.M.

7:00 P.M.

8:00 P.M.

9:00 P.M.
Schema Inventory

Instructions: Use this checklist to search for possible underlying rules of thinking. Place a check mark beside each schema
that you think you may have.
Healthy Schemas Dysfunctional Schemas
___ No matter what happens, I can manage somehow. ___ I must be perfect to be accepted.

___ If I work hard at something, I can master it. ___ If I choose to do something, I must succeed.

___ I’m a survivor. ___ I’m stupid.

___ Others trust me. ___ Without a woman (man), I’m nothing.

___ I’m a solid person. ___ I’m a fake.

___ People respect me. ___ Never show weakness.

___ They can knock me down, but they can’t knock me out. ___ I’m unlovable.

___ I care about other people. ___ If I make one mistake, I’ll lose everything.

___ If I prepare in advance, I usually do better. ___ I’ll never be comfortable around others.

___ I deserve to be respected. ___ I can never finish anything.

___ I like to be challenged. ___ No matter what I do, I won’t succeed.

___ There’s not much that can scare me. ___ The world is too frightening for me.

___ I’m intelligent. ___ Others can’t be trusted.

___ I can figure things out. ___ I must always be in control.

___ I’m friendly. ___ I’m unattractive.

___ I can handle stress. ___ Never show your emotions.

___ The tougher the problem, the tougher I become. ___ Other people will take advantage of me.

___ I can learn from my mistakes and be a better person. ___ I’m lazy.

___ I’m a good spouse (and/or parent, child, friend, lover). ___ If people really knew me, they wouldn’t like me.

___ Everything will work out all right. ___ To be accepted, I must always please others.

Adapted with permission from Wright JH, Wright AS, Beck AT: Good Days Ahead: The Multimedia Program for Cognitive Therapy.
Louisville, KY, Mindstreet, 2004. Permission is granted for readers to use this item in clinical practice.
Examining the Evidence for Schemas Worksheet

Instructions:
1. Identify a negative or maladaptive schema that you would like to change, and write it down on this form.
2. Write down any evidence that either supports or disproves this schema.
3. Look for cognitive errors in the evidence for the maladaptive schema.
4. Finally, note your ideas for changing the schema and your plans for putting these ideas into action.
Schema I want to change:

Evidence for this schema: Evidence against this schema:

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

5. 5.

Cognitive errors:

Now that I’ve examined the evidence, my degree of belief in the schema is:
Ideas I have for modifications to this schema:

Actions I will take now to change my schema and act in a healthier way:

Adapted with permission from Wright JH, Wright AS, Beck AT: Good Days Ahead: The Multimedia Program for Cognitive Therapy.
Louisville, KY, Mindstreet, 2004. Permission is granted for readers to use this item in clinical practice.
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Supervision Checklista

Therapist _______________________________________________
Supervisor______________________________________________ Date _________________________________
Instructions: Use this checklist to monitor and evaluate competencies in CBT. Listed in Part A are competencies that should
typically be demonstrated in each session. Part B (next page) contains competencies that may be demonstrated over a course
of therapy or therapies. The checklist is not intended for evaluation of performance in first or last sessions.

Part A: Competencies that should typically be demonstrated in each session.

Needs Did not
Competency Superior Satisfactory improvement attempt or N/A

1. Maintains collaborative empirical alliance

2. Expresses appropriate empathy, genuineness

3. Demonstrates accurate understanding

4. Maintains appropriate professionalism and

boundaries

5. Elicits and gives appropriate feedback

6. Demonstrates knowledge of CBT model

7. Demonstrates ability to use guided discovery

8. Effectively sets agenda and structures session

9. Reviews and assigns useful homework

10. Identifies automatic thoughts and/or beliefs

(schemas)

11. Modifies automatic thoughts and/or beliefs

(schemas)

12. Utilizes behavioral intervention or assists patient

with problem solving

13. Applies CBT methods in flexible manner that meets

needs of patient
Part B: Competencies that may be demonstrated over a course of therapy or therapies
Needs Did not
Competency Superior Satisfactory improvement attempt or N/A

1. Sets goals and plans treatment based on CBT

formulation

2. Educates patient about CBT model and/or therapy

interventions

3. Demonstrates ability to use thought record or other

structured method of responding to dysfunctional
cognitions

4. Can utilize activity or pleasant events scheduling

5. Can utilize exposure and response prevention or

graded task assignment

6. Can utilize relaxation and/or stress management

techniques

7. Can utilize CBT relapse prevention methods

Comments:

a
Checklist developed by Donna Sudak, M.D., Jesse H. Wright, M.D., Ph.D., David Bienenfeld, M.D., and Judith Beck, Ph.D., 2001.