How you want to be treated by the people around you

Clients struggling with people who mean well but help badly. Family members who say “just cheer up,” partners who fix instead of listen, friends who go silent during hard times. The worksheet gives the client language to ask for what they actually need rather than hoping people will guess.

The form has 10 fields. “What you do want from the people around you” is a repeating block with at least 3 rows, each with 1 sub-field (short-text).

A clinical note worth holding: the don’t-want list often surfaces specific people. “Don’t tell me other people have it worse” usually has a face attached. Worth asking who. Also: clients who can list ten things they don’t want and only one or two things they do want often need help with the do-want list.

In my-cbt, this is one of the bundled system templates. You preview, customise, and assign it from the case file in two clicks. Submissions save to the file with a timestamp. The repeating sections expand on screen instead of running out of room in a margin.