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The Thought Record worksheet is designed to help individuals identify and challenge automatic thoughts that may contribute to negative moods or behaviors. It encourages users to recognize cognitive distortions, such as all-or-nothing thinking and catastrophizing, and to formulate adaptive responses. Completing the worksheet can be beneficial if it leads to a noticeable improvement in mood.

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Thought Records Additional Resource (1)

The Thought Record worksheet is designed to help individuals identify and challenge automatic thoughts that may contribute to negative moods or behaviors. It encourages users to recognize cognitive distortions, such as all-or-nothing thinking and catastrophizing, and to formulate adaptive responses. Completing the worksheet can be beneficial if it leads to a noticeable improvement in mood.

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THOUGHT RECORD SIDE ONE: WORKSHEET

Remember, thoughts may be 100% true, 0% true or somewhere in the middle.

JUST BECAUSE YOU THINK SOMETHING, DOESN’T NECESSARILY MEAN IT’S TRUE.

Spend just 5-10 minutes to complete the Thought Record. Noe that not all questions will apply
to every automatic thought. Here’s what to do:
1. When you notice your mood getting worse, or you find yourself engaging in unhelpful
behavior, ask yourself, “What’s going through my mind right now?” and as soon as
possible, jot down the thought or mental image in the Automatic Thought(s) column.
2. The situation may be external (something that just happened or something you just did)
or internal (an intense emotion, a painful sensation, an image, daydream, flashback or
stream of thoughts—e.g., thinking about your future)
3. Then fill in the rest of the columns. You can try to identify cognitive distortions from the
list below. More than one distortion may apply. Make sure to use the questions at the
bottom of the worksheet to compose the adaptive response.
4. Spelling, handwriting and grammar don’t count.
5. It was worth doing this worksheet if your mood improves by 10% or more.

Cognitive Distortions

All-or-nothing thinking Example: “If I’m not a total success, I’m a failure.”

Catastrophizing (fortune telling) Example: “I’ll be so upset, I won’t be able to function at all.”
Disqualifying or discounting the Example: “I did that project well, but that doesn’t mean I’m
positive competent, I just got lucky.”
Example: “I know I do a lot of things okay at work, but I still feel like
Emotional reasoning
I’m a failure.”
Labeling Examples: “I’m a loser.” “He’s no good.”
Example: “Getting a mediocre evaluation proves how inadequate I
Magnification/minimization
am. Getting high marks doesn’t mean I’m smart.”
Mental filter (selective Example: “Because I got one low rating on my evaluation [which also
abstraction) contained several high ratings], it means I’m doing a lousy job.”
Example: “He’s thinking that I don’t know the first thing about this
Mind reading
project.”
Example: “Because I felt uncomfortable at the get-together, I don’t
Overgeneralization
have what it takes to make friends.”
Example: “The repairman was curt to me because I did something
Personalization
wrong.”
Example: “It’s terrible that I made a mistake. I should always do my
“Should” and “must” statements
best.”
“My son’s teacher can’t do anything right. He’s critical and insensitive
Tunnel vision
and lousy at teaching.”

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