CBT Tools for Healthy Living, Self-help Mood Diary

About CBT Tools for Healthy Living, Self-help Mood Diary

CBT Tools for Healthy Living by Excel At Life teaches you how to use the cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) methods in a simple format. The tools provided in this app are derived from the CBT research base and developed into a user-friendly format by a psychologist with over 30 years of clinical experience.

Learn the methods shown by decades of psychological research to be effective for changing your emotions/moods and behavior that contribute to depression, anxiety and stress, as well as problems in relationships, career and physical health.

These CBT methods can be used as self-help for minor issues or can be used in collaboration with your therapist to develop a treatment plan best suited to your situation.

The CBT tools included in this app:

1) Cognitive Diary
--step by step evaluation of an event that caused distress

2) Inspire Diary
--a simple diary method to provide affirmations and record positive events

3) Cognitive Styles Test and Your Happiness Assessment
--tests to help you learn about yourself

4) Healthy Activities Log
--track daily activities to motivate and make improvements

5) Mood Log
--record your moods throughout the day
--mood analysis feature: shows your average mood ratings for different actions or events
--graphs to track your mood

6) Points Log with encouraging messages
--tracks progress and provides motivation

7) Daily Goals to plan your healthy activities

8) Links to relaxation and assistance audios on the Excel At Life website

Other features:

Fully customizable: change the CBT terms (beliefs and definitions) used in the diary to conform with the system you are familiar with, add your own challenging statements for each belief, add moods/emotions, add healthy activities to track

Password protection (optional)

Daily reminder (optional)

Examples, tutorial, articles

Email entries and test results -- useful for therapeutic collaboration