Worry

Recognize it

100

Name one place in your body where your worry might show up?

Stomach, head, arms, anywhere where you feel worry in your body

200

Name two situations where you have experienced worry before

any place or situation you have experienced worry 

300

Name one way you can recognize you are having an unhelpful thought?

Any one way 

400

True or False: It is always easy to recognize when we are feeling worried 

False: sometimes it might be challenging 

500

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 

Cope with it

100

This is a coping skill that helps calm your body and relax your muscles

What is deep breathing, taking deep breaths 

200

This is a coping skill used to express your emotions and let someone know how you are feeling

Talking to someone 

300

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

400

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 

500

Name two coping skills that help you the most when you are feeling worried 

Any two coping skills you can use 

Challenge it

100

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

200

Challenge this thought using proof against this thought

"I am horrible at giving presentations in front of your class" 

What is one self talk strategy that shows this statement might not always be true?

BONUS: WORTH 600 points

You have given presentations in front of my class before and done well, any piece of evidence against that thought

300

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

400

Name the most likely outcome for this situation:

Worried about sitting alone at lunchtime 

Any most likely outcome

500

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 it

100

Change this thought to  a more helpful thought 

"I am going to mess up this project"

any helpful thought

200

True or False: Changing your thoughts from unhelpful to helpful takes practice

True: It takes pratice and time to change your thoughts

300

Change this thought to a more helpful thought using the words "I will"

"the rest of this year is going to be horrible for me"

Any helpful thought using the word "I will"

400

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

500

Change your own unhelpful thought with two different helpful thoughts you could say instead

BONUS WORTH 1000 points!

Any two more helpful  thoughts

Solve it

100

True or False: Avoiding and escaping the situation are helpful ways to solve a problem

False: Avoiding and escaping the situation will not help solve the problem and only reinforce your worry

200

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

300

True or False: All problems have easy solutions

False: not all problems will have easy solutions, some will be difficult to solve

400

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

500

Come up with your own problem or problem that you have had in the past related to worry and name two things you did or could do to solve it.

Bonus points- worth 1000 points!

Any two steps/skills that could  you deal with the problem,