Anxiety self talk worksheet
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The Happier Therapy editorial team is made up of Masters and PhD counselling psychologists. Each worksheet is created by a team member with exposure to and experience in the subject matter. The worksheet then gets reviewed by a more senior editorial member. This is someone with extensive knowledge of the subject matter and highly cited published material.
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What is the theory behind this anxiety self talk worksheet?
Your inner dialogue, or how you speak to yourself, is called self-talk. It is based on the thoughts, beliefs, and ideas that are retained in your subconscious mind. It can be either positive or negative. According to research, the CBT technique known as self-talk can help athletes in reducing competitiveness while also improving their performance, self-efficacy, and volitional abilities. Self talk is found to be beneficial in reducing anxiety in other anxiety provoking situations.
How will the worksheet help?
The worksheet will give the clients awareness about the self talk. It makes clients able to identify their self talk and change negative self talk to positive self talk that will help in managing anxiety.
How to use the worksheet?
The therapists can provide this worksheet during the session. Therapists will instruct clients to identify their self talk and change it to positive self talk. Clients can continue this worksheet as homework .
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References
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Morris, S. Y. (n.d.). Self-talk: Why it matters. Healthline. https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/self-talk#getting-started