Keeping an activity diary
This worksheet is designed to guide children in completing an activity diary, and hopes to enhance compliance with self-monitoring homework.
Therapists can integrate this tool into their session agenda, particularly during homework setting.
Self-monitoring in CBT increases patient awareness of cognitive, emotional, and behavioural patterns and their links, as well as helping to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviour (e.g. Cohen et al, 2013).
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Keeping an activity diary
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Keeping an activity diary
References and Further Reading
- Loades, M. E., & Myles-Hooton, P. (Eds.). (2020). Oxford guide to brief and low intensity interventions for children and young people. Oxford University Press.
- Arnberg, A., & Öst, L.-G. (2014). CBT for children with depressive symptoms: A meta-analysis. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 43(4), 275–288.
- Oud, M., de Winter, L., Vermeulen-Smit, E., Bodden, D., Nauta, M., Stone, L., van den Heuvel, M., Al Taher, R., de Graaf, I., Kendall, T., Engels, R., & Stikkelbroek, Y. (2019). Effectiveness of CBT for children and adolescents with depression: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis. Psychological Medicine.
- Loades, M. E., & Myles-Hooton, P. (Eds.). (2020). Oxford guide to brief and low intensity interventions for children and young people. Oxford University Press.
- Proudfoot, J., & Nicholas, J. (2010). Monitoring and evaluation in low intensity CBT interventions. In Oxford guide to low intensity CBT interventions (pp. 97-104).
- Cohen, J. S., Edmunds, J. M., Brodman, D. M., Benjamin, C. L., & Kendall, P. C. (2013). Using self-monitoring: Implementation of collaborative empiricism in cognitive-behavioural therapy. Cognitive and Behavioural Practice, 20(4), 419–428.