Opposite action log

Clients with impulsive behaviors driven by emotion (eating, withdrawing, lashing out, drinking, scrolling, shopping). Particularly useful for the gap between knowing the impulse will backfire and stopping it anyway. The worksheet works because tracking the actual outcome of opposite action builds the evidence base that the behavior change actually pays off, which the urge keeps insisting won’t happen.

The form is a single repeating block, at least 3 rows, with 5 sub-fields per row.

A clinical note worth holding: clients who write “opposite action” entries that are still avoidance in disguise (urge: drink, opposite: “watch TV alone”). The opposite of withdrawal is connection, the opposite of attack is gentleness, the opposite of numbing is feeling. Help them get the direction right.

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.