Cognitive Exercise


1. EVENT: Briefly describe a situation when you were feeling very______________ . (What was happening?)

2. CONSEQUENCES: How did you behave? What did you do?

3. BELIEFS: What were you thinking or saying to yourself?

4. DISTORTIONS: Using the list of distortions, do you see any examples of these in your thinking? Which ones?

5. DISPUTES: Using the list and associated strategies, what are new ways of thinking that you can come up with?