Explore how Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) supports recovery across common conditions. Each guide summarizes key symptoms, mechanisms, effective CBT strategies, and journaling prompts to practice safely. Educational content only; not a substitute for professional care.
Behavioral activation, cognitive restructuring, and rumination reduction.
Worry cycles, intolerance of uncertainty, and problem‑solving skills.
Interoceptive exposure and reappraising catastrophic misinterpretations.
Attention training, behavioral experiments, and safety‑behavior fading.
Trauma‑focused CBT principles and gradual approach to triggers.
Exposure with response prevention and values‑aligned choices.
CBT‑I foundations: stimulus control, sleep scheduling, and wind‑down.
Activation, balanced appraisals, and rhythm/light considerations.
Cycle tracking, coping plans, and self‑compassionate standards.
Functional analysis, coping skills, and stimulus control.
Graded exposures, reduce accommodation, and school supports.
PST elements, memory aids, routines, and social activation.
Graded exposure, inhibitory learning, and expectancy violation.
Reducing reassurance, tolerating uncertainty, and values‑based living.
Interoceptive exposures, thought records, and red‑flag coordination.
Exposure/ritual prevention, mirror work, and belief updating.
Skills‑focused CBT: planning, cueing, and friction reduction.
Relapse plans, sleep/social rhythm, and family‑focused strategies.
Pacing, activity restoration, and pain‑related cognition work.
Regular eating, exposure to feared foods, and body image work.
Flare logs, cognitive reframes, and pacing alongside medical care.
Sorting skills, exposure to discarding, and values‑guided decisions.
Behavioral activation, attachment‑sensitive CBT, and support planning.
Meaning‑making, routines, and gentle exposure to reminders.
Reassurance plans, graded steps, and caregiver coaching.
Validation, planning by cycle, and supportive prompts.
Symptom tracking, balanced appraisals, and sleep supports.
ERP principles with subtype‑specific examples.
Touch/delay wash; build tolerance and safety learning.
One‑check exposures; reduce reassurance and photos.
Approach feared cues; non‑neutralizing script exposures.
Misalignment exposures and flexible responding.
Script exposures and response prevention for mental rituals.
Phased approach: stabilization, processing, integration.
Differences across alcohol, opioids, stimulants, cannabis, nicotine.
HRT: awareness, competing responses, stimulus control.
HRT + stimulus control; quick coping logs.
Uncertainty practice; limit confession/reassurance.
Tolerate uncertainty; reduce checking; values actions.
Word→image→video exposures; interoceptive practice.
Profile‑based, graded food exposures; caregiver coaching.
Situational + interoceptive exposures; safety fades.
Approach reminders; meaning; routines and support.
Attention shift, stress skills, values exposures.
Trigger mapping, blocks/barriers, alternative rewards.
Graded separations, reduce accommodation, school routines.
Graded speaking tasks and caregiver coaching.
Exposure, attention training, and skills routines.
Graded medical/dental exposures; applied tension.
Sound-trigger mapping, exposure ladders, and opposite‑action prompts.
Stabilization, grounding, and gradual approach.
Values, compassionate reframing, and repair steps.
Stabilization skills; connect with local resources.
Pacing, attention shift, sleep/stress supports.
Vestibular exposures, grounding drills, and motion logs.
Activation, restructuring, and values routines.
Cycle tracking, balanced appraisals, routines.
ERP within safety plans and caregiver support.
Rhythm stabilization and relapse planning.
Prodrome monitoring, coping routines, and graded scheduling.
Tolerate uncertainty; reduce checking/comparison.
Attention retraining, pacing, values engagement.
Attention shift, sound enrichment, reappraisal.
Pacing, chunking, and gentle routines.
Problem‑solving, routines, and compassionate self‑talk.
Rescript and rehearse new endings; sleep routines.
Anchor wake; light timing; wind‑down.
School‑aligned wake anchors and morning light.
Regular eating, exposure, body image work.
Limit checks; mirror retraining; exposures.
Exposure; ritual reduction; broaden values.
Routines, urge coping, body image care.
Triggers, friction, alternative rewards.
Delay/urge surfing, context change.
Cue control, delay/distract, replacement.
High‑risk maps, coping, supports.
Visuals, concrete steps, caregiver support.
Awareness, competing response, function.
Graded returns, reduce accommodation.
Praise, consistent limits, problem‑solving.
Scripts, role‑play, feedback.
Coping; stress/sleep; relapse plans.
Cueing; tiny steps; social contact.
Shared language; problem‑solving; plans.
Warning signs; coping; supports.
Uncertainty, cycle‑based coping, values.
Uncertainty tolerance; values; plans.
Problem‑solving, boundaries, values time.
Compassionate meaning; routines; contact.
Rebalance; boundaries; recovery blocks.
TF-CBT aligned prompts for survivors rebuilding safety plans and self-trust.
Attachment-aware prompts for adoptees and foster youth working through loss and identity shifts.
Short blurb for the grid.
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