Use these worksheets to support the work that you are doing in session. By practicing your skills and completing exercises between sessions, you increase the likelihood of healthier thinking and behaviors coming more naturally.
Goals of Exercise:
- Identify negative, distorted cognitions that mediate intense negative emotions.
- Learn new ways to think that are more adaptive.
- Replace negative thoughts with more positive, realistic interpretations of situations.
- Replace dichotomous thinking with the ability to tolerate ambiguity and complexity in people and issues.
Goals of Exercise:
- Develop an awareness of the irrational nature of the fear and anxiety.
- Examine the probability of the negative expectation occurring and its consequences.
- Identify distorted self-talk that mediates the anxiety response.
- Recognize that the feared outcome will not terminate the ability to function.
- Resolve the core conflict that is the source of the anxiety.
Goals of Exercise:
- Identify successful coping strategies used in the past.
- View yourself as a capable, resourceful person who has been successful at overcoming fear.
- Apply successful coping strategies from the past to current anxieties.
- Enhance ability to effectively cope with the full variety of life’s anxieties.
Goals of Exercise:
- Develop and implement a daily ritual that interrupts the current pattern of compulsions.
- Reduce interference from or time involved with obsessions and compulsions.
- Function daily at a consistent level with minimal interference from obsessions and compulsions.
Goals of Exercise:
- Identify and develop specific strategies to resolve the fear.
- Implement a specific strategy on a consistent basis to minimize the impact of the fear.
- Increase confidence and effectiveness in coping with the fear.
- Reduce fear of the specific stimulus object or situation that previously provoked phobic anxiety.
Goals of Exercise:
- Verbalize an understanding of the relationship between distorted thinking and negative emotions.
- Learn key concepts regarding types of distorted thinking.
- Apply key concepts regarding distorted thinking to own experience.
- Identify and replace cognitive self-talk that is engaged in to support depression.
FOR USE BY CLIENTS OF INNER RENOVATIONS COUNSELING, PLLC.
ADULT PSYCHOTHERAPY HOMEWORK BY JONGSMA CORRESPONDS WITH APPROPRIATE DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT PLAN. THIS INFO IS NOT MENTAL HEALTH ADVICE. DISCUSS YOUR SYMPTOMS WITH A QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL.
FOR USE BY CLIENTS OF INNER RENOVATIONS COUNSELING, PLLC.
ADULT PSYCHOTHERAPY HOMEWORK BY JONGSMA CORRESPONDS WITH APPROPRIATE DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT PLAN. THIS INFO IS NOT MENTAL HEALTH ADVICE. DISCUSS YOUR SYMPTOMS WITH A QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL.
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