Understanding Thought Distortions
This worksheet helps 11th-grade students identify and challenge common thought distortions, promoting healthier cognitive patterns.
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Understanding Thought Distortions
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Read each question carefully and provide thoughtful responses. This worksheet is designed to help you identify and challenge common thought distortions.
1. are irrational ways of thinking that can lead to negative emotions and behaviors.
2. When someone engages in 'all-or-nothing' thinking, they see things in extreme terms, with no ground.
3. Catastrophizing involves expecting the possible outcome from a situation.
1. Which thought distortion involves making broad negative conclusions based on a single event?
Mind Reading
Overgeneralization
Personalization
Discounting the Positive
2. Believing you know what others are thinking about you, often negatively, is an example of:
Emotional Reasoning
Should Statements
Mind Reading
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1. 'Filtering' is a thought distortion where you focus only on the negative aspects of a situation and ignore the positive.
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2. 'Magnification' means minimizing the importance of your successes.
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False
1. Describe the thought distortion of 'Personalization' and provide an example.
2. How can identifying thought distortions help improve one's emotional well-being?
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
1. When you attach a global negative tag to yourself or others, you are engaging in .
2. Believing that because you feel a certain way, it must be true, is known as .
3. Predicting only negative outcomes and blowing problems out of proportion is a sign of .