Thinking Styles
Unhelpful Thinking Patterns or Irrational Thoughts that can influence your emotions and can be disabling are called what?
Cognitive Distortions
What horror film is credited with coining the notorious phrase, “What's your favorite scary movie?”
Scream
What coping skill is a practice in which the mind is trained to maintain focused attention for various reasons, including to cultivate positive states of mind or to increase concentration and focus?
Hint: To engage in contemplation or reflection
Meditation
True or False:
Resilience is the ability to bounce back especially after something difficult.
True
Mississippi has four S’s and four I’s. Can you spell that without using S or I?
T-H-A-T
Which Cognitive Distortion is Blowing things out of proportion by magnifying the negative and minimizing the positive with words like "always or never." ?
Hint: Jumping to the worst case scenario
Catastrophizing
What Hollywood movie star plays himself in Zombieland?
Bill Murray
Simple statements which you repeat to yourself which are positive
Self Affirmations
Counting to 10, breathing, positive self-talk, positive affirmations, meditation, grounding, stress management, praying, journaling, etc.... are examples of what?
Coping Skills
What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
a Potato
What Cognitive Distortion is Black or White Thinking with one extreme or the other. You are either wrong or right, good or bad, with no shades of grey?
All-or-Nothing Thinking
From which movie is the quote, “Don’t mess with the bull, young man. You’ll get the horns!”
The Breakfast Club
What is a convenient and simple relaxation technique that can help you quickly and easily manage stress and reduce tension in your body? It is the use of your imagination where you put yourself in your happy place and utilize all 5 senses to assist with relaxation.
Positive Imagery
What are simple statements that you repeat to yourself which are positive and can increase self-esteem?
Positive Affirmations; Self-Affirmations
I’m the rare case when today comes before yesterday. What am I?
a Dictionary
What Cognitive Distortion is Assuming we know the meaning of something without sufficient evidence?
Hint: 2 types are Mind Reading and Fortune Telling
Jumping to Conclusions
What kind of vehicle does Eddie and Catherine have in the National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation movie?
RV or Winnebago
What coping skill is the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something; a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations?
Mindfulness
What neurotransmitter in our brains can provide an intense feeling of reward and is involved in helping us feel pleasure as part of the brain's reward system?
Dopamine
What kind of band never plays music?
Rubber Band
Criminal Thinking Patterns are ways of thinking that say "it is okay to violate others or the property of others."
So what is this called: ways of thinking that say "it is okay to use as much drugs and alcohol as you want, as often as you want, and to do whatever you need to do to get them"
Addictive Thinking Patterns
The “Upside Down” is an alternate dimension existing in parallel to the human world in which Netflix series?
Stranger Things
A technique that includes breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation.
Yoga
What is the most important expectation/rule in any group setting?
HINT: to keep information private
Confidentiality
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?