Safety behavior tracker

Between identifying safety behaviors and starting exposure work. Self-monitoring alone often reduces frequency, since safety behaviors thrive on automaticity. Once the client has to log each instance, they tend to notice more of them and use fewer of them.

The form has 2 fields. “Each time you used a safety behavior” is a repeating block with at least 5 rows, each with 4 sub-fields (date/time, long-text, short-text, long-text).

A clinical note worth holding: the result column. Clients usually expect to write “felt better” but often end up writing “made me more anxious later” or “the relief lasted ten minutes.” That’s the data that breaks the protective belief about the behavior. Help them stay with that pattern when they see it.

In my-cbt, this is a bundled worksheet you can preview from the library and assign from the case file. The personal message at the top is how you tailor it to this client. Each submission saves to the file with a timestamp. The repeating sections expand on screen instead of running out of room in a margin.