Cognitive Behavioral Therapy • Worksheet

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It can be hard to define just one problem to begin working on. You may start to think of a number of related
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problems. Try to take one large problem and break it down into smaller, more manageable. .problems.

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Questions to Help You Define the Problem:* AR

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Who? What? When? Where? How?

Who has the problem? What is the problem? In what situations When is this problem If you could fix the
What part of the is the problem most likely to problem, how would
problem is most most noticeable? distress you? things be different
bothersome? for you?

Who needs to make Could there be several Is it more bothersome Does it bother How could you
changes problems that affect in some situations you more when you tell that the problem
each other? than in others? are tired, busy, hungry was solved?
What are they? or irritable?

On this page, start a list of some of the problems you would like to work on.

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Medical and Social Services

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Medical and
Social Services
Getting Your Life Back: The Complete Guide to Recovery from Depression by Jessie H. Wright, M.D.,
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Monica Ramirez Basco, Ph.D., The Free Press, New York, 2001.

For more information, contact your local

mental health authority or behavioral healthMedical
authority.
and
Social Services
dshs.texas.gov/mhservices-search/