Dropping a safety behavior

After the client has identified and tracked their safety behaviors and is ready for the next step. Frame the worksheet as an experiment with a specific predicted outcome and a specific actual outcome. The point is data, not endurance. If the experiment goes badly, that’s still useful information about what made it too hard.

The form has 6 fields.

A clinical note worth holding: clients who pick experiments that are too easy (low arousal, easy escape route) or too hard (full-blown trigger with no graded approach). Help them pitch it at moderate distress, around 50-70 SUDS, where the learning happens. Also: the obstacles question matters. Most failed experiments fail at the planning stage, not the execution stage.

Inside my-cbt, this is one of the system worksheets. One click to preview, one to assign with a personal message in your voice. Submissions land in the case file timestamped.