Coaching practices for Cpt First Assignment

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • I want to work on this, but the thought of having to write out or relive every detail of what happened is exactly what stops me cold
  • When I try to untangle one of these convictions in my head it just spins
  • I’ve been focused on the obvious wound
  • Every request that comes my way I just dump onto a list to deal with later, and now that list is a wall of vague half-things I dread opening
  • Even when I sit down to play with my kid I catch myself steering it

Practices that may help

  1. Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
    Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), developed by Patricia Resick, treats PTSD primarily by identifying and challenging "stuck points" — distorted or overgeneralized beliefs about safety, trust, control, intimacy, and self-worth that the trauma produced. Multiple large randomized trials show CPT is among the most effective available treatments for PTSD, comparable to Prolonged Exposure. The core concepts and some worksheets are publicly available; the full protocol benefits significantly from a CPT-trained therapist.
  2. Know that CPT-C (cognitive only) skips the trauma narrative
    A cognitive-only version of CPT omits the written trauma account and may be more tolerable for some people.
    Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
  3. Use a challenging beliefs worksheet to work a stuck point completely
    The CPT challenging beliefs worksheet is a structured, written process for examining one stuck point at a time.
    Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
  4. Examine stuck points across the five disrupted domains
    CPT organizes trauma-disrupted beliefs into five domains — Safety, Trust, Power, Esteem, Intimacy — to ensure none are missed.
    Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
  5. The Coping Card
    A coping card is a physical or digital card carrying your pre-prepared rational responses to your most common distorted thoughts or crisis triggers — written in advance, when you are calm, so they are available when you are not. Coping cards are a standard CBT tool with strong clinical consensus; they work because working memory and rational access are impaired under stress, and a card externalizes the reasoning that would otherwise be unavailable.
  6. Capture ideas and commitments in an RPM format
    When a new commitment lands, immediately ask: result, purpose, first MAP action — before adding it to any list.
    Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical
  7. Follow the child’s lead completely during special time
    Let the child decide what you do, how long you stay, and when you move on.
    Special Time (Lawrence Cohen — Playful Parenting)
  8. Committed Action, Made Practical
    Committed action — a core ACT process developed by Steven Hayes — means taking concrete, repeated steps toward what you value even while discomfort is present, rather than waiting for the feeling of readiness. It is the behavioral spine of ACT, which has substantial randomized-trial support across anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and other conditions.
  9. Install a focus cue as the final routine step
    End every pre-performance routine with one specific cue that triggers full attentional commitment to the task.
    Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical
  10. Write an impact statement — why the trauma happened and how it affected you
    A written account of the meaning you made of the trauma is CPT’s starting point for finding stuck points.
    Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD

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