Downloads

Tools for Stress Management and Personal Growth

Disclaimer
These worksheets are intended for educational purposes and for people who are in treatment with a mental health professional. None of these tools is designed to help you solve mental health problems on your own. Please consult a trained professional if you are experiencing difficulties with your moods, behaviors, or thinking patterns.

Guided Contemplation
This guided contemplation worksheet will take you about twenty minutes. Use it to achieve a state of calm resolve and renewed strength. The worksheet contains a series of questions designed to prime more constructive ways of thinking about your problems.
Download PDF File, "Guided Contemplation"

Self-Defeating Self-Talk
Part 1: Learn About Patterns of Self-Talk
This worksheet will help you identify basic patterns of neurotic self-talk. By learning to identify these patterns, you can learn to nip your negative thinking in the bud.
Download PDF File, "Self-Talk 1"

Part 2: Revise your Self-Talk
Use this worksheet to learn how to talk to yourself in kinder and more constructive ways.
Download PDF File, "Self-Talk 2"

Getting Active
One of the oldest and best antidotes for sadness and anxiety is constructive activity. If you can't think your way out of a bad mood, try using action. You can use this worksheet to help you counteract your lows with contructive, pleasurable, and meaningful activities. Look at it this way: if activity fails to help you feel better, at least you got something done!
Download PDF File, "Activity Scheduling"

Behavior Modification
If you want to do it, make a plan. This form will guide you through the process of analyzing a behavior you want to change (Form 1) and developing a behavior modification plan (Form 2). By using this structure, you can approach your problems in a systematic, rational way supported by decades of research.
Download PDF File, "Analysing a Behavior You Want to Change"
Download PDF File, "Developing a Behavior Modification Plan"