Thought Restructuring Worksheet
This worksheet helps 7th-grade students understand and practice thought restructuring techniques to manage negative thinking patterns.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you explore how your thoughts can impact your feelings and actions, and how to change negative thoughts into more positive ones.
Our thoughts play a powerful role in how we feel and what we do. Sometimes, our thoughts can become negative or unhelpful, which can lead to stress, anxiety, or sadness. Thought restructuring is a technique to identify these negative thoughts and challenge them, replacing them with more balanced and realistic perspectives.
1. Which of the following best describes a 'negative thought'?
A thought that involves planning for the future.
A thought that makes you feel bad or stressed.
A thought about something you need to do.
A thought about a happy memory.
2. When we think in extreme terms, like 'always' or 'never', we are engaging in a thought distortion called thinking.
3. If you believe that one negative event will lead to a chain of endless bad events, you are likely experiencing .
4. Thought restructuring means ignoring your problems and pretending everything is fine.
True
False
5. Describe a situation where you had a negative thought. Then, rephrase that thought into a more balanced or positive one.
Match the thought distortion on the left with its description on the right.
6. Catastrophizing
a. Believing you know what others are thinking negatively about you.
7. Mind Reading
b. Dwelling on the worst possible outcome.
8. All-or-Nothing Thinking
c. Seeing things in black and white, with no middle ground.
9. Why is it important to challenge negative thoughts instead of just accepting them?