Mental health skills building worksheet
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HappierTherapy
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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 Mental health skills building worksheet?
This worksheet is based on teaching Resilience, an important mental health skill that prepares individuals for everyday life stressors and protects them from ill effects of failing to cope with life’s adversities. Resilience is the reason why many of us stay strong in the face of hardship while others succumb to negative thoughts, emotions and maladaptive reactions.
The American Psychological Association defines resilience as a process which enables a person to utilise their mental, emotional and behavioural strengths to the best of their abilities in face of life’s challenges and difficulties. It further adds that Resilience can depend on many factors mainly: ‘the ways in which individuals view and engage with the world, the availability and quality of social resources and specific coping strategies.’
How will the worksheet help?
Resilience is a skill like any other that can be learned through practice. This worksheet will help educate individuals about resilience and explore their own mental, emotional and behavioural strengths that they utilise in difficult situations through a series of questions.
How to use the worksheet?
This worksheet can be used in counselling and therapeutic settings to enhance mental health skills in adolescents or older individuals. Instruct them to answer the questions to assess what skills they possess and which they need to work on in order to become resilient to life’s hardships.
