Cognitive Behavioural Therapy•For Adults

Behavioural Experiment Planner

A template for designing experiments to test anxious predictions.

Behavioural experiments help you test whether your anxious predictions are accurate. Instead of just thinking about whether a thought is true, you gather real-world evidence.

Behavioural Experiment Planner

The thought/prediction I want to test

Write your anxious prediction as specifically as possible

How much do I believe this? (0-100%)

What experiment could test this?

What could I do to find out if this is true?

What do I predict will happen?

Be specific — what exactly do I expect?

What actually happened?

Describe the outcome factually

What did I learn?

Was my prediction accurate?

How much do I believe the original thought now? (0-100%)