Understanding Negative Thinking Patterns
This worksheet helps grade 12 students identify, analyze, and challenge common negative thinking patterns that can impact their well-being and decision-making.
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Understanding Negative Thinking Patterns
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet explores common negative thinking patterns and strategies to address them.
1. Which cognitive distortion involves focusing solely on the negative aspects of a situation while ignoring the positive?
Catastrophizing
Mental Filter
All-or-Nothing Thinking
Personalization
2. Believing that a single negative event will inevitably lead to a chain of disastrous outcomes is known as:
Overgeneralization
Discounting the Positive
Magnification (Catastrophizing)
Emotional Reasoning
3. When someone assumes they know what others are thinking without any evidence, it's called .
4. The cognitive distortion where you take all criticism or negative events personally, even when you are not primarily responsible, is known as .
5. 'Should statements' are a type of negative thinking where individuals hold rigid rules about how they and others should behave.
True
False
6. Emotional reasoning suggests that if you feel something to be true, then it must be true, regardless of evidence.
True
False
7. Describe a personal example of 'All-or-Nothing Thinking' and how it impacted your perception of a situation.
8. Explain how 'Labeling' can be a harmful negative thinking pattern. Provide an example.
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
9. A key strategy for addressing negative thinking patterns is , which involves identifying and re-evaluating irrational thoughts.
10. Practicing can help individuals observe their thoughts without judgment, fostering a more balanced perspective.
11. Imagine a friend is struggling with 'Catastrophizing' after a minor setback. What advice would you give them, and what steps could they take to challenge this thinking pattern?
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