Session | Content | Home practice assignment |
1 | Introduction and education phase | Describe event’s impact |
2 | Meaning of the event | ABC worksheets |
3 | Identifying thoughts and feelings | ABC worksheets |
4 | Identifying ‘stuck points’ | Practice challenging questions |
5 | Challenging questions | Identify problematic thinking patterns |
6 | Problematic thinking | Practice challenging beliefs |
7 | Challenging beliefs | Evaluate safety beliefs |
8 | Safety issues | Evaluate trust beliefs |
9 | Trust issues | Evaluate power/control beliefs |
10 | Power/control issues | Evaluate esteem beliefs Give/receive compliments Pleasant/positive activities |
11 | Esteem issues | Revise description of event’s impact Evaluate intimacy beliefs Give/receive compliments Pleasant/positive activities |
12 | Intimacy issues; revisiting meaning of the event | Continue using worksheets |
ABC worksheets, preliminary cognitive restructuring exercise involving identification of Activating event, Belief and Consequences of belief.