Trauma & PTSD Worksheets
Trauma and PTSD worksheets covering psychoeducation, grounding skills, the window of tolerance, trigger mapping, and post-traumatic growth. Written for use across acute stabilization and longer-term processing work, and free to read and print.
7 worksheets available. Free to browse, read, and print.
Building Your Graduated Exposure Plan
A Structured Approach to Facing Trauma Reminders Safely
Integrative Clinical Case Formulation Guide
A framework for understanding the interplay of vulnerabilities, triggers, and presenting problems
Riding the Wave: A Practical Guide to Urge Surfing
Evidence-based techniques for observing and outlasting unwanted impulses without acting on them
Sensory Grounding for Trauma Recovery
Evidence-based techniques for anchoring yourself in the present moment
Trauma Trigger Mapping and Response Plan
Identifying activating stimuli and building a personalized coping strategy
Understanding Psychological Trauma
How Trauma Affects the Mind and Body, and Paths to Recovery
Understanding Your Trauma Response
Recognizing how the mind and body react to traumatic experiences
Free Trauma & PTSD treatment manuals
Complete open-access protocols from sources like SAMHSA, the VA, WHO, and RAND that pair with the worksheets above. Each one links to the official source and states its license, free and legal to use.
ACT for PTSD Group Manual
The VA's session-by-session manual for a 10-week ACT group for veterans with PTSD, written by three VA psychologists at the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center. Each 90-minute session gets a full script: willingness and mindfulness, defusion, personal values with a card sort, the observing self, and observing the trauma, plus an optional pre-group individual session.
TIP 57: Trauma-Informed Care
SAMHSA's consensus guide to delivering trauma-informed care in mental health and addiction treatment settings. Part 1 gives clinicians concrete guidance on screening, assessment, and trauma-specific interventions; Part 2 shows administrators how to build a trauma-informed organization and workforce.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) Manuals
The complete VA therapist's manual for Cognitive Processing Therapy adapted for veterans and service members, written by the treatment's developers. It walks through all 12 sessions with sample dialogue, session summaries, and progress notes, and a companion volume contains every patient handout.
TIP 42: Co-Occurring Disorders
SAMHSA's flagship guideline for treating clients who have both a substance use disorder and a mental health condition. The 2020 update walks through screening, assessment, and integrated treatment planning for depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, ADHD, and psychosis alongside addiction.
SSET School Trauma Program
A ten-lesson, group-format program for middle-school students exposed to trauma, adapted by Jaycox, Langley, and Dean from the evidence-based CBITS intervention so that teachers and school counselors can deliver it without clinical training. The book includes a leader training section, complete lesson plans, and all student worksheets, parent letters, and screening forms.
TF-CBT Implementation Manual
An honest framing first: this is the implementation guide for TF-CBT, not the session-by-session treatment manual. That book (Cohen, Mannarino, and Deblinger's Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents) is a commercial Guilford title. What NCTSN's free guide covers is everything around the protocol: the components and evidence, preparing an agency to adopt it, training and supervision paths, maintaining fidelity, and handling comorbidity and cultural adaptation.