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Thought Record

The document outlines a Thought Record Chart designed to help individuals analyze their emotions and thoughts during specific situations. It guides users through a structured process to identify feelings, negative automatic thoughts, supporting and contradicting evidence, and to develop alternative thoughts. The goal is to facilitate emotional awareness and cognitive restructuring.

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Thought Record

The document outlines a Thought Record Chart designed to help individuals analyze their emotions and thoughts during specific situations. It guides users through a structured process to identify feelings, negative automatic thoughts, supporting and contradicting evidence, and to develop alternative thoughts. The goal is to facilitate emotional awareness and cognitive restructuring.

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What happened? What happened?

What did you feel? What did you feel?

What did you think? What did you think?

What evidence supports those thoughts? What evidence supports those thoughts?

What evidence contradicts those thoughts? What evidence contradicts those thoughts?

What is more accurate thought ? What is more accurate thought ?

How do you feel now? How do you feel now?

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Thought Record Chart

Date and Situation Thought Feeling Alternative Feeling


time thought
Rating

0-100

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1. Situation.
o Can you think of a recent time when you felt a sudden change in how
you were feeling?
o Describe what was happening. Who was there? Where were you?
When did it happen? What were you doing?
2. Emotion or feeling.
o What did you feel in your body?
o Try to think of one word that describes the emotion
o How strong was that feeling on a scale from 0 to 100?
3. Negative automatic thought.
o What was going through your mind as you started to feel that way?
o What memories or images were in your mind?
4. Evidence that supports the thought. The fourth column is used to record
evidence supporting the selected NAT.
o What facts or evidence support the truthfulness of this thought or
image?
o What makes you think that <NAT> is true?
5. Evidence that does not support the thought
o If a good friend had this thought, what would I tell them?
o What experiences (even if they seem insignificant) indicate that this
thought is not completely true, all of the time?
6. Alternative thought.
o Knowing what you know now about <evidence for the thought> and
<evidence against the thought>, what would be a more accurate way of
responding to that triggering event?
7. Emotion or feeling.
o With this new thought in mind, how do you feel about that situation
now?
o How strong is that feeling on a scale of 0 to 100?

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