Positive and Negative Thinking Worksheet

How we internally process situations greatly impacts our emotions and behaviors. This insightful worksheet helps kids identify unhelpful thought patterns and reframe thinking to cultivate resilience. Children can think about what negative thoughts they have when they are angry, common cognitive distortions like catastrophizing events or personalizing blame and then think about positive thoughts they can have which will help them build self-awareness around anger triggers and empowers positive reappraisal.

When you’re feeling angry or frustrated you can change your behavior with your thoughts. Negative thoughts might make you do something you shouldn’t, where as positive thoughts might help you to calm down.

Teachers can incorporate the worksheet into social-emotional learning curriculum alongside impulse control or conflict resolution materials and work on positive self-talk. Counselors may utilize it in sessions about managing emotional outbursts constructively. Caregivers can walk through examples at home to help children push pause on knee-jerk reactions.

By unpacking counterproductive thinking cycles, students gain power over anger triggers. The engaging format makes rewiring thoughts achievable without judgment. Kids emerge better equipped to employ logical thinking and make values-based choices despite difficult emotions. Simple yet profoundly empowering, this worksheet builds resilience by adjusting the thoughts shaping our feelings.

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