Name one place in your body where your worry might show up?
What is deep breathing, taking deep breaths
True or False: Challenging our unhelpful thoughts will help us be able to see the situation in a more helpful way
True: Challenging our thoughts will help us look at it from a different perspective
Change this thought to a more helpful thought
"I am going to mess up this project"
any helpful thought
True or False: Avoiding and escaping the situation are helpful ways to solve a problem
Name two situations where you have experienced worry before
any place or situation you have experienced worry
This is a coping skill used to express your emotions and let someone know how you are feeling
Talking to someone
Challenge this thought using proof against this thought
"I am horrible at giving presentations in front of people"
What is one challenging piece of evidence that shows this statement might not always be true?
BONUS: WORTH 600 points
You have given presentations in the past and done well, any piece of evidence against that thought
True or False: Changing your thoughts from unhelpful to helpful takes practice
True: It takes pratice and time to change your thoughts
You are worried about not being able to see your friends and worried about when you will see them next. Name one thing you can do to deal with the situation?
Talk to your friends on the phone, via zoom, think of all the fun things you could do with them n the future, talk to your parent, any one thing you can do
Name one way you can recognize you are having an unhelpful thought?
Any one way
True or False: All coping skills are helpful
FALSE: not all coping skills are helpful, some are helpful and some may be unhelpful such as avoiding or escaping
Name two facts that show you can handle this situation?
I am worried about the upcoming test in my math class
Any two facts that show you can handle it or have in the past
Change this thought to a more helpful thought using the words "I will"
Any helpful thought using the word "I will"
True or False: All problems have easy solutions
False: not all problems will have easy solutions, some will be difficult to solve
True or False: It is always easy to recognize when we are feeling worried
False: sometimes it might be challenging
True or False: It is important to have a "tool kit" or multiple coping skills that help you calm down for different situations
TRUE: it is important to have different coping skills that can help you in different situations, or times
Name the most likely outcome for this situation:
Worried about sitting alone at lunchtime
Any most likely outcome
Change this thought with a more helpful thought with the word BRAVE in it
"Being away from home makes me too nervous, I'll never be able to do fun things"
Any helpful thought with the word BRAVE in it
Sara is feeling very nervous about feeling prepared for her upcoming math test, science test and history project. She is worried about how she will get it all done. Name two thing she can do to deal with the situation?
Any two things she can do, break up into small pieces, do one thing at a time, write a list,
Bonus points- worth 800 points
Name two ways you can recognize that you are feeling worried
your head hurts, body is shaking, thoughts hard to get out of your head or any two ways you recognize worry
Name two coping skills that help you the most when you are feeling worried
Any two coping skills you can use
BONUS: Challenge your opponent and both answer the question:
f you get it right, you get 500 points. If you both get it right: you earn double the points!
Here is the situation:
You are not allowed to be in school right now and are worried that you will fall behind in your work.
Have each opponent ask the other a challenging statement to challenge the unhelpful thought.
Hints of ?s( What are facts that show you can handle this, what are things in your control?)
Any challenging question used
Change your own unhelpful thought with two different helpful thoughts you could say instead
BONUS WORTH 1000 points!
Any two more helpful thoughts
Bonus points- worth 1000 points!
Any two steps/skills that could you deal with the problem,