Depression
Get Out of Your Thinking Trap (Teens)

This worksheet helps teens understand the various kinds of dysfunctional thinking like catastrophizing, all-or-nothing thinking, discounting the positive, and more. (1123, depression, anxiety, CBT, Cognitive Behavior Modification)

Do You Feel Like a Burden? (Teens)

Teens who have problems often feel like they are a burden on others. This worksheet is designed to help teens understand that even though they may have problems they are still loved and valued and connected to others in many positive ways. (1123, depression, suicidal ideation, bipolar, self-injury)

Coping with the Loss of Hope by Using Daily Affirmations

This worksheet explains how hopelessness can manifest itself in a person’s daily life, including physical symptoms, impaired decision-making, and social isolation. It explains how affirmations can improve resilience, self-compassion, and positivity. The worksheet gives instructions on how to create meaningful affirmations and includes a chart for people to see how affirmations can affect their moods and behaviors. (1023. depression, cognitive restructuring)

Feelings Jar

Kids and teens can use this jar to express their feelings. (1023. emotional regulation, feelings, communication)

Do You Feel Hopeless?

Hopelessness is one of the most serious symptoms of depression. But hope can be regained. This worksheet 7 strategies to regain hope including connecting with others, self-care, engaging in problem-solving, and “arguing the opposite.” (1023, depression, dysthymia)

Talking About Feelings Card Game

This fun card deck can easily be cut out and assembled to help children and teens learn the importance of communicating their feelings and understanding the feelings of others. The game is played like the classic card game “War,” where players turn over a card and the highest number takes all the cards. But first, you have to answer the question, “Describe a time you felt this way.” There are many ways to use these cards including sending them home for families to use “between sessions.” (0823, emotional intelligence, emotional regulation)

Embrace Your Reflection: A Body Image Workbook for Teen Girls

Written by a teen with a firsthand understanding of the pressures on teenage girls, this workbook presents a variety of easy-to-use exercises to help teens accept their bodies. The workbook includes 30 different techniques, including affirmations, diary sheets, coping skills, and more. 44 pages (0823, body dysmorphia, body image, eating disorder, anorexia)

Why Do Bad Things Happen? (Teens)

This worksheet is designed to help teens explore their feelings, thoughts, and beliefs about events in their lives that have been difficult for them to understand and accept. It also gives them coping strategies to deal with difficult feelings. (0723, loss, trauma, healing, grief)

Think About Your Thinking (Teens)

This worksheet is designed to help teens understand the concept of “metacognition” or thinking about their thinking. It’s designed to help teens develop a variety of executive functioning activities including problem-solving, goal-setting, and time management. (0623, executive functioning, memory, problem-solving)

Finding Hope: A Teen’s Guide to Overcoming Depression

This workbook contains 12 activities to help teens understand their depression and develop skills to find hope, manage stress, reach out to others, and more. (0223, depression)