Small-talk practice tracker

Social anxiety, post-isolation re-entry, clients on the autism spectrum learning conversational skills, and clients who minimise small talk as “meaningless” but who are actually avoiding it. The duration column matters: a 30-second exchange counts as a successful exposure.

The form has 2 fields. “Conversations you’ve started” is a repeating block with at least 5 rows, each with 3 sub-fields (short-text, short-text, slider).

A clinical note worth holding: clients who keep redoing the easy items and skip the harder ones. That’s the avoidance pattern showing up inside the worksheet. Help them move up. Also: clients whose comfort scores don’t drop with repetition often need a closer look at the cognitive piece, since exposure alone isn’t enough when there’s a strong evaluation belief.

In my-cbt, the form is in the system templates and ready to send. The personal message field is where you frame the task for this client. Submissions show up in the case file alongside the session notes. The repeating sections expand on screen instead of running out of room in a margin.