Identifying
Safety Behaviors
Safety Behaviors
This is a behavior that is unnecessary, occurs frequently, and provokes anxiety if we don't get to do the behavior.
What is a safety behavior?
This is a behavior people do when a situation provokes anxiety and discomfort, and it involves a person doing what they can to not be involved in the situation.
What is avoidance?
This is a step to changing unhelpful behaviors and it involves noticing what behaviors we want to change and how often they occur.
What is tracking our behaviors?
This is a type of thinking where make extreme binary judgements.
What is black-or-white thinking?
This is a strategy for managing procrastination that involves using a timer for distractions.
What is limiting distractions?
This is when you do things to make others happy at the expense of what’s best for you.
What is people pleasing?
This is a prediction or guess about what will happen as a result of an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
This is a step in changing unwanted behaviors and it involves thinking about other possible ways a situation could turn out.
What is considering alternatives?
This is a type of thinking that involves people believing that the worst will happen.
What is catastrophizing?
This is a strategy for managing procrastination that involves blocking distractions for a certain amount of time.
What is eliminating distractions?
This is when people put off a challenging task or do something more entertaining or relaxing to avoid feeling of anxiety or discomfort.
What is distraction and procrastination?
This is a strategy people use to slowly face their fears and reduce avoidance.
What is gradual exposure?
This is a step in changing unwanted behaviors and it includes people visualizing what they would do if they experienced different consequences.
What is visualizing success?
This is a type of thinking that involves believing that we know what others are thinking.
What is mind reading?
This is a strategy people use that involves giving ourselves time with a preferred activity after completing uncomfortable task.
What is rewarding ourselves?
This is when people excessively prepare for an anxiety provoking situation to make sure they don't perform poorly.
What is overpreparing?
This is a process people use when challenging their fears to see if their predicted result will occur.
This is a step is changing unhelpful behavior, and it includes taking small steps to reduce how often we do the unwanted behavior.
What is gradual reduction?
This is a type of thinking where people believe that it's up to them to prevent all bad things from happening.
What is over-responsibility?
This is a strategy people use that involves breaking an undesirable task into manageable pieces.
What is chunking?
This behavior is when people repeatedly and excessively ask others for reassurance about minor matters or when people excessively double-check that thy are doing the right thing.
What is reassurance-seeking and checking?
This is a tool people use to help rank their feared situations and keep track of the intensity of anxiety.
What is a fear hierarchy?
This is a step in changing unhelpful behavior and it involves asking ourselves what the unwanted behavior is doing for us and why we do it.
What is meta cognition?
This is a type of thinking where people believe they must know what will happen in the future.
What is intolerance of uncertainty?
This is a strategy people use to help them start a task and it involves telling ourselves that we will do the undesirable task for 5 minutes.
What is 'just 5 minutes'?