Recognize it
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
False: Avoiding and escaping the situation will not help solve the problem and only reinforce your worry
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
Can you practice challenging an automatic negative thought?
Any challenge is great!
True or False: Changing your thoughts from unhelpful to helpful takes practice
True: It takes practice 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 in the future, talk to your parent, any one thing you can do, come to Stepping Forward groups! :)
Who invades your brain when you're worrying a lot?
Worry Wall!
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
Challenge this negative thought:
I am worried something bad is going to happen to me.
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"
True or False: All problems have easy solutions
False: not all problems will have easy solutions, some will be difficult to solve
Who can you ask for help when you are worrying?
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
Challenge this negative thought:
I am worried about my parents going away for dinner one night.
Any challenge is good!
Change this thought to have 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 falling behind in school due to not having classes right now and is worried about how she will do in school next year. Name two things she can do to deal with the situation?
Any two things she can do, talk to an adult, challenge unhelpful thoughts, practice hw sheets, any two things she can do
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
pick one friend from another team:
Pick a negative thought and have them challenge it.
Was that helpful to you?
Any challenging question used
Change your own unhelpful thought with two different helpful thoughts you could say instead
Any two more helpful thoughts
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.
Any two steps/skills that could you deal with the problem,