Mindshift CBT

     

    Many people struggle with anxiety and stress. I would even argue that everyone struggles to some extent with anxiety and stress. Those who have been through a major life trauma, are struggling with mental health, or substance abuse related issues may benefit from this Mindshift CBT is a great tech tool that is helpful in the field of social work to help clients to better cope with anxiety and stress. This can help to challenge false belief systems as well as to identify triggers of anxiety and stressors. Mindshift CBT is a free evidence-based tool that uses cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to help to manage anxiety and other problematic mental health related issues. There are so many tools available on Mindshift CBT that are available for free to its users. 

 

    The tools available on Mindshift CBT include: 

HEALTHY HABITS: This includes tips to help create healthy habits. 

COPING CARDS: This includes cards to help with anxiety in the moment by helping to readjust the users thinking with statements that help with coping mechanisms.

THOUGHT JOURNAL: This helps with turning your worries into rational and helpful thoughts by identifying and challenging thought patterns that keep you in anxiety.

BELIEF EXPERIMENTS: This helps with learning how to create experiments to test beliefs that could be causing anxiety.

CHILL ZONE: This includes listening to guided relaxation and mindfulness meditations to help you reach as well as maintain a more relaxed and mindful space mentally.

FACING FEARS: With this the user will overcome their fears over time by facing them in small steps.

CBT-BASED TOOLS: This tool includes cognitive-based tools that will help the user to change their thinking in a positive way, and behavioral strategies to help with make long-term positive change.

QUICK RELIEF: This tool is good for when the user needs anxiety relief in a quick manner. The user can use these quick and easy tools to help ground themself, breathe, shift their thinking, and take steps to cope.

   

 

    Another aspect of this tool that has been more recently added is peer-to-peer support through a community platform. This helps with communicating with others who can relate to what you are going through. This can be extremely beneficial to the users of Mindshift CBT. Talking to and collaborating with others who you have a commonality with can be helpful for all parties involved. This helps users to not feel alone in their struggles and challenges with anxiety and stress. 

    Mindset CBT can be very helpful for social workers to use in their practices with clients to help to manage stress and the best part about it is that it is free! This is especially helpful for many clients that social workers have who do not have money to pay for an app on their phone. This tool can help clients while they are out on their own and help with learning new techniques to manage and cope with anxiety. Social workers are always looking for new tools and I think this is a great one to add to the tool belt!

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