| Summary: | In their third therapy session, Martin M. Antony gauges his client's progress using the cognitive strategies outlined in previous sessions to help her manage her anxiety and panic attacks. She reports that she is continuing with the bibliotherapy homework and was able to resist the urge to engage in checking behaviors but forgot to fill out her thought record. Antony suggests they work through the thought record during the session and walks her through this process again. He reminds her that the goal of therapy is to question her negative automatic thoughts by stepping outside of her worrying self to recontextualize her perceptions. Antony informs the client that the next steps of exposure therapy will entail developing practices that will increase her anxiety so that she will learn to tolerate discomfort, rather than distracting herself to avoid it. He concludes the session by offering some techniques for combating academic procrastination, which in conjunction with the thought record is her homework.
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