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Challenge inflated responsibility beliefs that drive OCD by examining the appraisal and generating realistic alternatives.

Test how attention to the body creates and amplifies sensations — demonstrating that body scanning is part of the problem, not the solution.

Identify and challenge stuck points — the unhelpful beliefs about the trauma and its aftermath that maintain PTSD symptoms.

Compare the effects of self-focused attention vs external focus during social situations to test whether self-focus makes anxiety worse.

Build a hierarchy of appearance-related situations you avoid, ranked by distress, to guide graded exposure.

Identify a core belief, rate its conviction, gather evidence for and against, and develop a more balanced alternative.

Weigh up the costs and benefits of specific health anxiety behaviours — checking, Googling, reassurance-seeking — to build motivation for change.

Identify and challenge positive beliefs about mania/hypomania that reduce motivation for relapse prevention — e.g. "I'm more creative when high."

Identify and challenge negative beliefs about worry — the beliefs that worry is uncontrollable or dangerous.

Review evidence for and against a core belief across different life periods — childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

Test the belief that thinking something makes it more likely to happen (likelihood TAF) or that thinking something is morally equivalent to doing it (moral TAF).

Gather normalising evidence by surveying others about whether they experience the same body sensations and fears — challenging the belief that your experience is abnormal.

A formulation based on Dugas' intolerance of uncertainty model — mapping IU, positive beliefs about worry, negative problem orientation, and cognitive avoidance.

Track gradual reduction in body checking behaviours — setting targets, monitoring frequency, and recording what happens when you check less.

A comprehensive plan for maintaining progress after therapy — covering warning signs, coping strategies, and an action plan for setbacks.

Create a personalised plan for protecting sleep — the single most important modifiable risk factor for mood episodes in bipolar disorder.

Create a plan for managing pain flare-ups — covering prevention, early action, and what to do at each level of severity.

Challenge contamination-specific appraisals by examining the realistic probability of harm, the role of disgust vs danger, and what "clean enough" means.

Track PTSD symptoms across the four DSM-5 clusters — intrusion, avoidance, negative cognitions and mood, and arousal and reactivity — to monitor progress through treatment.

Track changes in a specific social belief across multiple experiments — building cumulative evidence for an updated view of yourself in social situations.

Track rumination episodes and analyse their triggers, content, function, and consequences — to understand why you ruminate and what alternatives might work.

Trace a problem behaviour back through the chain of vulnerability factors, events, thoughts, emotions, and actions that led to it — then identify intervention points.

Test the depressive prediction that "nothing will be enjoyable" by predicting pleasure before activities and comparing with actual experience.

Weigh up the costs and benefits of maintaining a schema-driven coping pattern vs changing it.