Understanding Negative Thinking Patterns
This worksheet helps 7th-grade students identify and challenge common negative thinking patterns to improve their social-emotional well-being.
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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 will help you learn about common negative thinking patterns and how to challenge them.
1. What is a 'thinking pattern' and why is it important to understand them?
2. Your friend didn't say hello to you in the hallway, and you immediately think, 'They must be mad at me. I always mess things up.' What negative thinking pattern is this an example of?
Catastrophizing
Mind Reading
All-or-Nothing Thinking
Personalization
3. Complete the following sentences with the correct negative thinking pattern:
a) When you believe a single negative event will lead to a chain of terrible outcomes, it's called .
b) Seeing things in only two extreme categories (e.g., perfect or a complete failure) is known as thinking.
c) Focusing only on the negative aspects of a situation and ignoring any positives is an example of a .
4. Challenging negative thoughts means always being positive and never feeling sad or angry.
True
False
5. Describe one strategy you can use to challenge a negative thinking pattern when you notice it happening.
Use the words below to identify the negative thinking patterns in the scenarios provided.
6. "I failed that math test, so I'm just bad at everything. I'll never succeed in school." This is an example of .
7. "I feel anxious about the presentation, so it must mean I'm going to do terribly." This is an example of .