CARES Skills Diary Card

The CARES Skills Diary Card is a concise weekly DBT diary-card preset for DBT practitioners and clients. It helps practitioners review target behaviors, urges, emotions, substance or medication context, skills practice, homework follow-through, goal progress, belief in ability to change, and next-week skills focus.

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Tool guide

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Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.

When It Is Used

Use when weekly DBT review should include behavior monitoring, skills practice, homework follow-through, goal movement, confidence in change, and next skills focus.

What It Adds

Compared with a general diary-card flow, this preset adds CARES-specific engagement fields for homework, goals, change belief, and skills focus.

Is CARES Skills Diary Card a general goal tracker?

No. It is a DBT weekly diary-card preset with CARES-specific homework, goal, change-belief, and skills-focus fields.

Can weeks with no homework be represented?

Yes. Weeks without homework should be distinguishable from missing homework data.

Does the tool score motivation or readiness?

No. It records belief in ability to change where supported but does not infer motivation or readiness.

What is saved from the demo?

The tool and supported setup are saved; fictional weekly entries are not saved as real client records.

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