CBT Pad For Mac

CBT Pad is a medical software application designed to help patients undergoing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. CBT is form a psychotherapy for teaching people with anxiety or other mental issues how to change negative feelings, behaviors and beliefs through a system of self-analysis and improvement.

The applications consists of different modules organized into 5 tabs for entering several types of information into records: events, thoughts, consequences, challenges and actions. CBT Pad is also able to generate reports that you can print into a user-friendly format.

In the Event tab, you an describe the event or situation that led to the thoughts. The Thoughts tab lets you write about the thoughts, select the recognized distortions (overgeneralization, negative filter, discounting positives, etc.) and adjust the strength of belief.

The Consequences tab allows you to describe the impact of the automatic  thoughts, the Challenge module provides forms for weighing up how accurate and realistic your thoughts were and the Action tab enables you to write about what actions you can take to defuse similar thoughts.

Your records can be organized based on the date, location, ‘with who’, event and distortion, and sorted by latest and earliest. Moreover, they are accessible at any time from the left sidebar. In order to secure your personal information, CBT Pad can also be password protected.

In summary, the CBT Pad app is a great solution that the CBT practitioner can use in conjunction with affected individuals. It allows you to organize the thoughts and ideas about the situation into records according to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy standards.