Coping Skills
What term refers to the way a person can ignore all of the positive and good things in life to focus solely on the negative? It’s the trap of dwelling on a single negative aspect of a situation, even when surrounded by an abundance of good things.
Filtering
What coping skill helps you to prioritize problems, fears, and concerns, track any symptoms on a day-to-day basis so that you can recognize triggers and learn ways to better control them, and provides opportunities for positive self-talk and identifying negative thoughts and behaviors?
Journaling
What cognitive distortion is all-or-nothing thinking, with no room for complexity or nuance—everything’s either black or white, never shades of gray?
If you don’t perform perfectly in some area, then you may see yourself as a total failure instead of simply recognizing that you may be unskilled in one area.
Polarized Thinking/Black-and-White Thinking
Which technique relieves anxiety and tension, improves your sleep, relieves neck pain and lower back pain, reduces blood pressure, decreases the frequency of migraine headaches, and reduces joint problems when done properly?
Progressive Muscle Relaxation Technique
What term describes taking a single incident or point in time and using it as the sole piece of evidence for a broad conclusion.
For example, someone who overgeneralizes could bomb an important job interview and instead of brushing it off as one bad experience and trying again, they conclude that they are terrible at interviewing and will never get a job offer.
Overgeneralization
Which coping technique improves your immunity, increases your energy, improves your digestion, and helps to detox your system on top of de-stressing you?
The Deep Breathing Technique
Which distortion involves faulty reasoning in how one makes conclusions. Unlike overgeneralizing one incident, jumping to conclusions refers to the tendency to be sure of something without any evidence at all?
For example, we might be convinced that someone dislikes us without having any real evidence, or we might believe that our fears will come true before we have a chance to really find out.
Jumping to Conclusions
Which technique is a practice that can help you pull away from flashbacks, unwanted memories, negative or challenging emotions? This technique may help distract you from what you're experiencing and refocus on what's happening in the present moment. This technique can also help you not to worry about the future or focus on your past regrets/guilt as it keeps you aware of the present moment.
What is the grounding technique?
Which distortion involves expecting that the worst will happen or has happened, based on an incident that is nowhere near as catastrophic as it is made out to be? For example, you may make a small mistake at work and be convinced that it will ruin the project you are working on, that your boss will be furious, and that you’ll lose your job.
Alternatively, one might minimize the importance of positive things, such as an accomplishment at work or a desirable personal characteristic.
Catastrophizing