Addiction
Coping Cards

These Coping Cards can be used by people who want to replace negative behaviors with positive ones. A useful technique to help in breaking negative habits. Form Type: PDF (CBT, 0615)

Finding and Getting Help for Problems with Alcohol

This brochure, developed by the National Institute of Health, presents an overview of the treatment options available for people who have a problem with alcohol. (alcohol abuse, addiction, substance use, 0515)

Behavior Contract for Adults

Behavior contracts are not just for kids! This worksheet is designed to help people commit to changing specific behaviors that interfere with their lives by breaking down goals into sub-steps, identifying rewards for achieving each step, and sharing the intention to change with supportive individuals. (contracts, behavior change, goal-setting, 0515)

Feeling Better Through Spiritual Awareness

This worksheet is designed to help individuals who wish to bring spirituality into their lives as a way to help them with emotional problems and enrich their day-to-day lives. (spirituality, 0515)

Understanding the Messages You Received As A Child

This worksheet is designed to help people examine the explicit and implicit messages they received as children and how these messages affect their self-image and self-efficacy. (0415)

Thinking About Your Emotional Strengths

This worksheet is designed to help people think about their emotional strengths and how they can bring these strengths to their current problems. It contains a list of strengths for clients to rate, as well as questions about how significant others perceive the person’s emotional strengths. (0415, ACT, DBT)

The Cost of Avoiding Difficult Feelings

Some people spend a lifetime trying to avoid the things that cause upsetting thoughts, feelings, sensations, or memories. This can help them manage their symptoms, but it can simultaneously lead to a very restricted and unhappy life. This worksheet is designed to help people identify the things that upset them, think about the things they do to avoid being upset, and think about what life would be like if they could overcome their symptoms. This worksheet can be used as a prelude to Mindfulness and other techniques that help people accept and overcome their symptomatic behaviors. (CBT, DBT, 0415).

Dealing with Shame and Guilt

This worksheet is designed for people who blame themselves as solely responsible for a particular situation or event. The form is intended to help relieve the shame and guilt that makes life unbearable. (CBT, shame, guilt, 0415)

Tolerating Upsetting Thoughts & Feelings

This worksheet helps people deal with difficult thoughts and feelings by having them focus on their core values rather than rely on self-destructive symptoms. There are two forms to complete, one to help people identify their core values and another to help them determine how much time they spend in activities that reflect these values. (0415, ACT)

Tracking Your Urges

Many people have a difficult time controlling their urges and impulses. This can be a particular problem when people are unable to control their self-destructive behaviors, such as excessive drinking, binging, self-injury, and other dangerous behaviors. This worksheet is designed to help people keep track of their urges and develop strategies to get control over self-destructive behaviors. (0315)