BEHAVIOR CHANGE TACTIC
Tracking cognitions or emotions
Tracking cognitions or emotions (often both) refers to a person recording when they have certain thoughts or feelings. The person might note every time they experience a given thought or specific feeling whenever it comes up, or alternatively simply keep a diary of any notable thoughts or feeling at pre-determined times. Often, this also includes noting what triggered or occured before or alongside these thoughts and emotions. Many therapuetic approaches utilize this tool, even if only for brief periods, to help a system, clinician, or patient better understand the patterns around their thoughts and feelings. Often, this data is integrated into additional behavior change approaches, like behavioral activation or implementation intentions.
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MoodMission
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Mental Health & Self-Care
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Tracking cognitions or emotions, AI or Chatbot, Goal Setting +7 more
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
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MoodPrism
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Mental Health & Self-Care
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Tracking cognitions or emotions, AI or Chatbot, Goal Setting +7 more
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MoodKit
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Mental Health & Self-Care
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Tracking cognitions or emotions, AI or Chatbot, Goal Setting +7 more
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
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MoodHacker
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Mental Health & Self-Care
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Tracking cognitions or emotions, Self-Monitoring or Tracking
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
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Workit Health
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Mental Health & Self-Care, Substance Use or Addiction
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Education or Information, Coaching or Counselling +3 more
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing
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Ria
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Sleep, Disease Management
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Micro-Incentives, Reminders, Cues +8 more
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NASH
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Disease Management
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Implementation Intentions, Education or Information, Reminders +4 more
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CBT
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Ginger
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Mental Health & Self-Care
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Coaching or Counselling, Tracking cognitions or emotions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) +1 more
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AI or Chatbot
Using a chatbot or simulated conversational interaction.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT is a therapeutic approach originalled developed by Steven Hayes. It borrows from previous concepts like cognitive behavioral therapy and Morita therapy. The principles of ACT are fairly systematic and lend themselves well to program design, finding empirical support in adaptations like 2morrow's smoking cessation and pain management interventions.
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Active Choice
Active choice, sometimes referred to as enhanced active choice or forced choice, refers to removing default options and often increasing the salience of potential decisions through emphasizing the consequences of one or more of the options. Coined by Punam Anand Keller and colleagues in 2011, it was originally intended to address concerns around paternalistic nudging for use in situations where forcing the default option may be considered unethical. In one of the original studies, CVS customers were given the choice to enroll in automatic refills of medications via delivery. The choices they were presented were ""Enroll in refills at home"" vs “I Prefer to Order my Own Refills.”
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Automation
Automation refers to having another person, group, or technology system perform part or all of the intended behavior. A prominent example is Thaler & Bernartzi's Save More Tomorrow intervention, which invested a portion of employees' earnings into retirement funds automatically and even increased the contribution level to scale with pay raises. Other examples include automatically scheduling medical appointments so the patient needn't do it themselves and mailing healthy recipe ingredients to the person's home to reduce the burden of shopping.
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Behavior Substitution
Behavior substitution refers to attempting to eliminate a problematic behavior by replacing it with another one. Often, the substituted behaviors are intended to have similar sensory qualities (e.g. drink flavored sparkling water instead of soda). The goal is typically to disassociate the original behavior from its cue, enabling the more positive behavior to be triggered automatically.
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Behavioral Activation (BA)
Behavioral activation is a therapeutic approach that typically pairs activity scheduling with either monitoring tools or goal-setting. For example, someone might aim to balance activities they "should" do but underperform, like self-care behaviors, with activities they enjoy. Users of this technique may also track which activities cause certain cognitions or affective states, like those associated with depression.