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Testing Your Thoughts

This worksheet is a simplified version of the Dysfunctional Thought Record meant for clients like adolescents. It guides users through identifying a situation and their thoughts/feelings about it. It then prompts examining what evidence supports or counters the automatic thought and exploring alternative perspectives, possible outcomes, and advice for a friend in the same situation. The goal is to test and potentially change unhelpful thoughts.

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Testing Your Thoughts

This worksheet is a simplified version of the Dysfunctional Thought Record meant for clients like adolescents. It guides users through identifying a situation and their thoughts/feelings about it. It then prompts examining what evidence supports or counters the automatic thought and exploring alternative perspectives, possible outcomes, and advice for a friend in the same situation. The goal is to test and potentially change unhelpful thoughts.

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Name: _______________________________________ Date: __________________

TESTING YOUR THOUGHTS


This worksheet is an easier version of the Dysfunc8onal Thought Record and should be used in place of,
not in addi8on to, the DTR, for certain clients, such as adolescents.

• What is the situa8on?

• What am I thinking or imagining?

• How does that make me feel? mad sad nervous other:

• What makes me think the thought is true?

• What makes me think the thought is not true or not completely true?

• What’s another way to look at this?

• What’s the worst that could happen? What could I do then?

• What’s the best that could happen?

• What will probably happen?

• What could happen if I changed my thinking?

• What would I tell my friend [think of a specific person] if this happened to him or her?

• What should I do now?

Mind Wellness Center - Sophia Peermohideen


Provided 2103 Becks Ins8tute- Cogni8ve Behaviour Therapy
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