Getting started and goal setting
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Psycho education about the cognitive-behavioural model of CFS and CBT, signing treatment contract and establish goals that if attained implies that a patient no longer has CFS.
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Regulate sleep-wake cycle
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Regulating sleep-wake cycle i.e., fixed bedtimes, no sleeping or lying down during the day
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Helpful beliefs about fatigue
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Formulate helpful beliefs
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Divert attention away from fatigue towards other activities and the environment
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How to communicate with others about CFS
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Change the communication about CFS with significant others
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Gradually increasing my activities
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Determine activity pattern
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Graded activity program for relative active patients (first spread activities evenly, followed by graded activity)
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Graded activity program for low active patient
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Pain: helpful beliefs for dealing with pain during graded activity
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Solve problems with the graded activity program
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Reaching my goals step by step
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Work resumption
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Increase mental activities
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Increase social activities
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Achieve my goals step by step
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Evaluation and the future
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Letting go of the rules of therapy (e.g., sleep in late, do a lot of activities from time to time)
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No longer being a CFS patient
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Having healthy levels of fatigue and learn how to stay healthy
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