The 'behavioral change techniques' (BCTs) contained within Breaking Free Online

Content in Breaking Free Online	Description of strategy	Therapeutic approaches underpinning strategies	BCT taxonomy (V1) techniques (number in taxonomy)
Baseline and progress check assessments	Monitor behavior to provide feedback about progress towards goals; Encourage new behaviors via positive feedback	Goal setting; self-monitoring	Self-monitoring of behavior (2.3); Feedback on outcome(s) of behavior (2.7)
Lifestyle Balance Model	Generic formulation; Idiosyncratic formulation; Personalized feedback; Case formulation—understand the links between situations, thoughts, emotions, behaviors, physical sensations, and lifestyle	Node-link mapping (International Treatment Effectiveness Project (ITEP); Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)	Information about antecedents (4.2); Information about health consequences (5.1); Salience of consequences (5.2); Information about social and environmental consequences (5.3); Information about emotional consequences (5.6)
Difficult situations domain of LBM	Assessment; Self-monitoring; Standardized measures; Psycho-education on impact of problematic situations; Intervention to help people in distress access support; Recognize–avoid–cope; Relapse prevention for coping with environmental/situational/emotional triggers; Creating action plans on how to avoid or cope in high risk situations	All structured therapeutic approaches; Psychoeducation; Guided self-help; Relapse prevention; Refusal skills	Social support (unspecified) (3.1); Reduce negative emotions (11.2); Problem solving (1.2); Action planning (1.4); Instruction on how to perform the behavior (4.1); behavioral practice/rehearsal (8.1); behavior substitution (8.2); Avoidance/reducing exposure to cues for the behavior (12.3); Goal setting (behavior) (1.1)
Negative thoughts domain of LBM	Psychoeducation on impact on negative thoughts; Mind traps; Cognitive restructuring; Challenge thoughts that may be unhelpful	Psychoeducation; Guided self-help; International Treatment Effectiveness Project (ITEP); Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)	Information about antecedents (4.2); Information about health consequences (5.1); Salience of consequences (5.2); Information about social and environmental consequences (5.3); Information about emotional consequences (5.6); Re-attribution (4.3); Framing-reframing (13.2)
Emotions domain of LBM	Psychoeducation on impact on emotions; Attention narrowing; Attention switching; Emotional regulation; Recognize/understand/normalize emotions; Developing more appropriate coping strategies	Psychoeducation; Guided self-help; Coping strategy enhancement (CSE); Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy	Information about antecedents (4.2); Information about health consequences (5.1); Salience of consequences (5.2); Information about social and environmental consequences (5.3); Information about emotional consequences (5.6); behavioral practice/rehearsal (8.1); Reduce negative emotions (11.2); Problem solving (1.2); Social support (unspecified) (3.1); behavioral practice/rehearsal (8.1); Distraction (12.4)
Physical sensations domain of LBM	Psychoeducation on impact of physical sensations; Urge surfing; Body scanning; Relapse prevention-based techniques	Psychoeducation; Guided self-help; Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy	Information about antecedents (4.2); Information about health consequences (5.1); Salience of consequences (5.2); Information about social and environmental consequences (5.3); Information about emotional consequences (5.6); Instruction on how to perform a behavior (4.1); behavioral practice/rehearsal (8.1); Reduce negative emotions (11.2)
Unhelpful behaviors domain of LBM	Psychoeducation on impact of destructive behaviors; Activity scheduling; Behavioral activation; Encourage new behaviors via positive feedback; Increase activity to increase energy levels and relieve boredom	Psychoeducation; Guided self-help; Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)	Information about antecedents (4.2); Information about health consequences (5.1); Salience of consequences (5.2); Information about social and environmental consequences (5.3); Information about emotional consequences (5.6); Non-specific reward (10.3); Non-specific incentive (10.6); Reward approximation (14.4); Rewarding completion (14.5); Goal setting (behavior) (1.1); Action planning (1.4)
Lifestyle domain of LBM	Psychoeducation on impact of lifestyle; Creating SMART goals for recovery; Goalsetting Increase treatment engagement and retention. Increase readiness to change behavior	Psychoeducation; Guided self-help; Motivational enhancement therapy (MET); Implementation intentions	Goal setting (behavior) (1.1); Problem solving (1.2); Goal setting (outcome) (1.3); Action planning (1.4); Non-specific reward (10.3); Focus on past success (15.3)