Cognitive Restructuring Report
Cognitive Restructuring Worksheet
Belief strength reduced by 60%; emotion intensity reduced by 55%.
Starting from a belief strength of 90% and emotion intensity of 85%, you worked through the evidence and arrived at a balanced thought. After restructuring, belief strength was 30% and emotion intensity was 30% — 2 distortions identified: Catastrophizing, Jumping to Conclusions. This shift indicates that the restructuring exercise produced a meaningful change.
Restructuring summary
| Belief strength before | 90% |
| Belief strength after | 30% |
| Belief-strength change | −60% |
| Primary emotion | Anxiety |
| Emotion intensity before | 85% |
| Emotion intensity after | 30% |
| Emotion-intensity change | −55% |
| Distortions identified | 2 |
- Catastrophizing
- Jumping to Conclusions
Your thought record
| Triggering situation | My manager rescheduled our 1:1 meeting at short notice. |
| Automatic thought | “I'm about to be let go.” |
| Evidence for the thought | My manager seemed distracted last week. The meeting was rescheduled with no explanation. |
| Evidence against the thought | My last performance review was positive. Reschedules happen often for all sorts of reasons. There is no evidence of a performance issue. |
| Balanced thought | “Reschedules are common and usually have nothing to do with my performance. I have no concrete evidence of a problem.” |
The figures above are computed directly from your own entries: belief-change and emotion-change are arithmetic differences; distortion count is a tally of checked items. This is a guided self-monitoring worksheet, not a scored test — so there are no norms, percentiles, or clinical inference by design. A single record is a starting point, not a conclusion.