Understanding Thought Distortions
This worksheet helps 6th-grade students identify and understand common thought distortions, promoting healthier thinking patterns.
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Understanding Thought Distortions
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you learn about common ways our thoughts can get 'distorted' and how to think more clearly.
Our brains are amazing, but sometimes they can play tricks on us! Thought distortions are ways our minds convince us of something that isn't really true. Learning to spot these 'tricks' can help us feel better and make better choices.
1. Thought distortions are ways our minds convince us of something that isn't really .
2. Learning to spot these 'tricks' can help us feel and make better choices.
3. When you assume the worst will happen, even without evidence, it's called .
4. Which thought distortion involves thinking in all-or-nothing terms, like 'I always fail' or 'I never succeed'?
Catastrophizing
Black-and-White Thinking
Mind Reading
Overgeneralization
5. Believing you know what others are thinking about you, often negative, is an example of:
Fortune Telling
Emotional Reasoning
Mind Reading
Personalization
6. 'I got a bad grade on one test, so I'm a terrible student' is an example of personalization.
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False
7. Catastrophizing means making a big deal out of something small.
True
False
8. Describe 'Emotional Reasoning' in your own words. Provide an example.
9. Think about a time you might have had a thought distortion. What was it, and how could you have thought about it differently?
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
10. When you focus only on the negative parts of a situation and ignore the positive, it's called .
11. If you think, 'Because I didn't get invited to one party, no one ever wants to hang out with me,' you are using .