Social Skills
Tarjetas para Efectuar Cambios Positivos

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. Spanish Version. (Spanish, 0221, negative thinking)

Coping with the End of a Friendship (Teens)

This worksheet is designed to help teens explore their feelings after the end of a friendship (0221, social skills, depression)

Using the 2-Chair Technique to Change Your Perspective

This worksheet asks people to visual two chairs, one representing an optimistic attitude and the other a pessimistic attitude and answer a series of questions from each perspective. (perspective taking, optimism, 1220)

Changing Your Negative Thinking with the “Add-a-But” Technique

This worksheet is designed to help people who are negative thinkers see the positive side of an argument. A two-week assignment is given to help people see the positive side of things they previously just saw in a negative light. (CBT, negative thinking, automatic thoughts, Borderline Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, 1020).

The Problem with Being a People Pleaser

This worksheet is designed to help people who put pleasing others as more important as trying to fulfill their own needs and desires. The worksheet helps people understand how people pleasing can be a problem and gives them specific ways to practice balancing their own needs with the needs of others. (assertiveness, depression, self-esteem, self-image, 0720)

Are You Difficult to Get Along With?

This worksheet teaches people the GIVE technique: be gentle, show interest, validate, use an easy manner. It encourages people to use aspects of this technique in difficult interactions.

Are You Anxious About Being the Center of Attention?

This worksheet helps people identify the social situations that make them anxious and understand their anxiety symptoms. It also encourages them to consider their motivation to change. (social anxiety, 0120)

Improving Your Ability to Say No

This worksheet helps people reflect about their communication with others and whether or not they are expressing their values and getting their needs fulfilled. It teaches a two-step technique to designed to help people be assertive without offending others. (assertiveness, communication, interpersonal effectiveness, 1119)

Using I Statements to Communicate Effectively

This worksheet teaches people to express their thoughts, feelings, and needs more directly using “I” statements. (communication, interpersonal effectiveness, DBT, 1019)

To Date or Not to Date (teens)

This worksheet is designed to help teens deal with pressure from the culture or friends about dating. It helps them understand that their choices are theirs alone. (teen dating, 0919)