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58 techniques · 7 approaches
CBT
Cognitive Rehearsal
Cognitive Rehearsal
Mental rehearsal of a difficult situation before it occurs. The client imagines the situation, practices coping thoughts and planned behavio…
CBT
Core Beliefs / Schemas
Core Beliefs / Schemas
Work with deep beliefs about self, others and the world, such as "I am defective," "people cannot be trusted" or "the world is unsafe." In C…
CBT
Graded Exposure
Graded Exposure
A step-by-step behavioral technique for reducing fear and avoidance. The client builds a hierarchy of feared situations, starts with managea…
CFT
Calm/Safe Place Imagery
Calm/Safe Place Imagery
A CFT imagery technique for building an inner "anchor" of safety and calm. Unlike the EMDR version, it includes multisensory filling (sounds…
CFT
Compassionate CFT Case Formulation
Compassionate CFT Case Formulation
A structured shared map for understanding the client's difficulties through a CFT lens. It explains how early experience shaped the key fear…
CFT
Compassionate Exposure
Compassionate Exposure
An adaptation of classical exposure in CFT: the client meets avoided situations, emotions, or memories from the position of the compassionat…
CFT
Compassionate Imagery Rescripting
Compassionate Imagery Rescripting
An imagery technique for working through painful memories: the adult "compassionate self" "enters" the memory and supports the child who was…
CFT
Working with Shame (De-Shaming)
Working with Shame (De-Shaming)
A set of CFT interventions targeted at shame as the central pathogenic affect. Gilbert distinguishes external shame (fear of being rejected)…
CPT
ABC Worksheet
ABC Worksheet
ABC Worksheet is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move from global…
CPT
Challenging Beliefs Worksheet
Challenging Beliefs Worksheet
Challenging Beliefs Worksheet is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client …
CPT
Challenging Questions Worksheet
Challenging Questions Worksheet
Challenging Questions Worksheet is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the clien…
CPT
Cognitive Restructuring
Cognitive Restructuring
Cognitive Restructuring is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move f…
CPT
Developing Alternative Thoughts
Developing Alternative Thoughts
Developing Alternative Thoughts is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the clien…
CPT
Distinguishing Assimilation from Over-Accommodation
Distinguishing Assimilation from Over-Accommodation
Distinguishing Assimilation from Over-Accommodation is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points…
CPT
Esteem Issues Module
Esteem Issues Module
Esteem Issues Module is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move from…
CPT
Final Impact Statement
Final Impact Statement
Final Impact Statement is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move fr…
CPT
Identifying Automatic Thoughts
Identifying Automatic Thoughts
Identifying Automatic Thoughts is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client…
CPT
Identifying Stuck Points
Identifying Stuck Points
Identifying Stuck Points is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move …
CPT
Intimacy Issues Module
Intimacy Issues Module
Intimacy Issues Module is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move fr…
CPT
Patterns of Problematic Thinking
Patterns of Problematic Thinking
Patterns of Problematic Thinking is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the clie…
CPT
Power/Control Issues Module
Power/Control Issues Module
Power/Control Issues Module is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client mo…
CPT
Practice Assignments (Homework)
Practice Assignments (Homework)
Practice Assignments (Homework) is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the clien…
CPT
Psychoeducation about PTSD and CPT Rationale
Psychoeducation about PTSD and CPT Rationale
Psychoeducation about PTSD and CPT Rationale is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It he…
CPT
Reading the Trauma Account Aloud (CPT+A)
Reading the Trauma Account Aloud (CPT+A)
Reading the Trauma Account Aloud (CPT+A) is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps …
CPT
Safety Issues Module
Safety Issues Module
Safety Issues Module is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move from…
CPT
Socratic Questioning (Guided Discovery) in CPT
Socratic Questioning (Guided Discovery) in CPT
Socratic Questioning (Guided Discovery) in CPT is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It …
CPT
Star Worksheet
Star Worksheet
Star Worksheet is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move from globa…
CPT
Stuck Point Log
Stuck Point Log
Stuck Point Log is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move from glob…
CPT
Trust Issues Module
Trust Issues Module
Trust Issues Module is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move from …
CPT
Writing the Impact Statement
Writing the Impact Statement
Writing the Impact Statement is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client m…
CPT
Writing the Trauma Account (CPT+A)
Writing the Trauma Account (CPT+A)
Writing the Trauma Account (CPT+A) is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the cl…
EMDR
3-Pronged Protocol (Past-Present-Future)
3-Pronged Protocol (Past-Present-Future)
The basic frame of treatment planning in EMDR: one problem is processed across three temporal layers. Past — the original traumatic event or…
MCT
Threat Monitoring Reduction
Threat Monitoring Reduction
A specific technique for reducing the constant scanning for threats by changing meta-beliefs about the necessity of monitoring. Differs from…
PE
Common Reactions to Trauma Normalization
Common Reactions to Trauma Normalization
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
PE
Crisis Management During PE
Crisis Management During PE
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
PE
Hot Spot Imaginal Exposure and Processing
Hot Spot Imaginal Exposure and Processing
A core PE technique in which the client revisits the trauma memory aloud in the present tense so that the fear structure can activate and up…
PE
Identifying and Eliminating Safety Behaviors
Identifying and Eliminating Safety Behaviors
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
PE
Imaginal Exposure / Trauma Revisiting
Imaginal Exposure / Trauma Revisiting
A core PE technique in which the client revisits the trauma memory aloud in the present tense so that the fear structure can activate and up…
PE
Initial Assessment and Trauma History Gathering
Initial Assessment and Trauma History Gathering
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
PE
Managing Dissociation During Exposure
Managing Dissociation During Exposure
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
PE
Managing In-Session Avoidance
Managing In-Session Avoidance
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
PE
Meaning of Trauma / Altered World Beliefs Processing
Meaning of Trauma / Altered World Beliefs Processing
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
PE
PE with Multiple Traumas
PE with Multiple Traumas
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
PE
Processing Secondary Emotions (Grief, Anger, Shame)
Processing Secondary Emotions (Grief, Anger, Shame)
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
PE
Psychoeducation about PTSD and PE Rationale
Psychoeducation about PTSD and PE Rationale
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
PE
Significant Other Education
Significant Other Education
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
PE
Trauma-Related Guilt and Self-Blame Processing
Trauma-Related Guilt and Self-Blame Processing
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
PE
Treatment Termination and Relapse Prevention
Treatment Termination and Relapse Prevention
A Prolonged Exposure technique for working with PTSD through structured activation of trauma reminders, reduction of avoidance, and careful …
TF-CBT
Caregiver Psychoeducation
Caregiver Psychoeducation
A TF-CBT caregiver technique that prepares the nonoffending adult to understand trauma symptoms, respond supportively, and become a safe res…
TF-CBT
Cognitive Processing of Maladaptive Trauma Cognitions
Cognitive Processing of Maladaptive Trauma Cognitions
A TF-CBT technique for helping a child or adolescent process trauma with developmentally appropriate skills, caregiver support, and gradual …
TF-CBT
Gradual Exposure
Gradual Exposure
A TF-CBT technique for helping a child or adolescent process trauma with developmentally appropriate skills, caregiver support, and gradual …
TF-CBT
Hot Spot / Peak Moment Processing
Hot Spot / Peak Moment Processing
A TF-CBT technique for helping a child or adolescent process trauma with developmentally appropriate skills, caregiver support, and gradual …
TF-CBT
In Vivo Mastery of Trauma Reminders
In Vivo Mastery of Trauma Reminders
A TF-CBT technique for helping a child or adolescent process trauma with developmentally appropriate skills, caregiver support, and gradual …
TF-CBT
Managing Caregiver's Own PTSD/Distress Reactions
Managing Caregiver's Own PTSD/Distress Reactions
A TF-CBT caregiver technique that prepares the nonoffending adult to understand trauma symptoms, respond supportively, and become a safe res…
TF-CBT
Psychoeducation about Trauma and PTSD
Psychoeducation about Trauma and PTSD
A TF-CBT technique for helping a child or adolescent process trauma with developmentally appropriate skills, caregiver support, and gradual …
TF-CBT
Thought Stopping and Thought Replacement
Thought Stopping and Thought Replacement
A TF-CBT technique for helping a child or adolescent process trauma with developmentally appropriate skills, caregiver support, and gradual …
TF-CBT
Trauma Narrative Development
Trauma Narrative Development
A central TF-CBT technique in which the child gradually creates and processes a trauma narrative in a safe, age-appropriate format.
TF-CBT
Traumatic Grief Processing
Traumatic Grief Processing
A TF-CBT technique for helping a child or adolescent process trauma with developmentally appropriate skills, caregiver support, and gradual …
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