The Positive Coping Skills Tracker is a valuable tool designed to help individuals monitor and evaluate their use of healthy coping strategies over the past week. By regularly tracking these positive behaviors, you can reinforce effective techniques and identify areas where improvement is needed. This tracker uses a 5-point Likert scale to assess the frequency of various coping activities, from deep breathing exercises to mindfulness practices and seeking support from others. Your responses will provide insight into how well you are managing anxiety and stress, allowing you to build on your strengths and make adjustments as needed. Accurately reflecting on your recent experiences can help you maintain and enhance your overall well-being.

Developed by Dr. Hal Baumchen, PsyD, LP, LADC, this tracker is formatted for easy daily or weekly use. Clients complete it independently between sessions and bring it in for review, giving clinicians a concrete picture of what’s happening outside the office – patterns and triggers a single-session snapshot can miss.

How clinicians use it: for symptom monitoring over time, to identify triggers that inform the treatment plan, to measure progress with real data rather than recall, and as a shared clinical record completed by the client and reviewed together.

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