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  1. Click ‘Get Form’ to open the Dysfunctional Thought Record in the editor.
  2. Begin by entering the 'Date & Time' at the top of the form. This helps track when the thoughts occurred.
  3. In the 'Situation' section, describe the event that led to your unpleasant emotion or distressing thoughts. Be as detailed as possible.
  4. Next, write down your 'Automatic Thoughts' that preceded your emotions. This is crucial for identifying patterns in your thinking.
  5. Specify your emotions in the 'Emotion(s)' field, such as sad, angry, or anxious. Rate your belief in these automatic thoughts on a scale from 0-100%.
  6. Rate the degree of emotion you felt during this situation on a scale from 0-100%. This quantifies your emotional response.
  7. Identify any cognitive distortions present using the provided list and note them in the 'Distortion' section.
  8. Finally, write down alternative thoughts that could replace your automatic thoughts and reflect on potential outcomes.

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The Dysfunctional Thought Record (DTR) is an effective and useful worksheet, widely used in cognitive therapy (CT), to help patients respond to automatic thoughts (ATs) and to change negative mood states.
always expecting the worst outcome from any situation. ignoring the good sides of a situation and only focusing on the bad. seeing things as either only good or only bad, with nothing in between (black and white thinking) considering yourself the sole cause of negative situations.
The Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale (DAS; Weissman, 1980; Weissman Beck, 1978) is a self-report inventory designed to measure attitudes that can apt a person to depression. DAS was originally a 100-item scale developed using a college student population. It was divided into two parallel forms, 40-item forms A and B.
Definition. Unhealthy or maladaptive ways of thinking that contribute to emotional distress or interfere with daily functioning.
Here are some CBT exercises that can be helpful for individuals with ADHD: Thought Record: A thought record identifies negative thoughts and replaces them with more positive ones. Write down negative thoughts about yourself, and then reframe them more positively.

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The Dysfunctional Thought Record is a worksheet to record and challenge dysfunctional thoughts. It encourages clients to identify the involvement of any cognitive biases unhelpful thinking styles - which are operating.

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