Teens

Teens have a special way of communicating and learning about themselves, so we’ve made sure that all our therapeutic activities for teens are appealing and engaging to this age group.

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We’ve tried to address every teen issue we can think of, and more tools are added every week!

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Peeling Back Your Thoughts: The CBT Banana Exercise (Teens)

The “CBT Banana” is used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help teens understand how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected. The technique uses the metaphor that a banana represents thoughts. Like peeling a banana, teens are asked to peel away layers of their thoughts to uncover beliefs and identify how they influence their emotions and behaviors. (0924, cognitive behavior therapy, CBT, cognitive restructuring)

Evaluating Homework Assignments

This log is designed to help parents or teachers record how students are doing in completing their assignments. When completed online (i.e. digitally) it can be interpreted by the PsychAssist software from Between Sessions Resources. (0824. ADHD, homework, parenting, distractions, focus)

Understanding and Managing Gambling (Teens)

This worksheet explains the many kinds of gambling activities that teens engage in and the problems that compulsive gambling can cause. The worksheet asks teens to honestly talk about their gambling habits and consider how gambling is affecting their mental health. It includes a chart to help teens understand the situations or emotions that can trigger their gambling and encourages them to consider substitute behaviors. (0724, gambling, compulsive gambling, behavior problems)

Creating a Music Playlist to Shift Your Mood

This worksheet suggests that people make a playlist to help them shift their mood if they are angry, depressed, anxious, or upset. It guides them to select a song that reflects their current feelings, and then several transition songs. The playlist ends with a song that could trigger a desired emotion. (0624, depression, music therapy, mood, emotional regulation)

Bouncing Back: Understanding and Overcoming Setbacks

This worksheet is intended to help teens recognize situations that interrupt their progress and identify ways to manage setbacks. (0524, resilience, setbacks, coping skills, teen tools)

Do You Have a Hard Time with Changes in Your Life? (Teens)

Teens face constant changes and transitions and many have a difficult time with these challenges. This worksheet asks teens to divide a circle into four quadrants: thoughts, feelings, challenges, and opportunities. Then it asks teens to explore each of these areas as related to a current change they are dealing with. (0424, transitions, divorce, school problems, friendships)

Are You Feeling Lost Or Overwhelmed About Your Future? (Teens)

This worksheet is designed to help teens create a visual roadmap of their journey after high school. It helps them clarify their goals, develop coping skills to deal with anxiety and anticipate obstacles. (0424, transitions, anxiety, worry)

Using Behavioral Activation to Feel Better (Teens)

This worksheet introduces the concept of Behavioral Activation to help depressed teens participate in activities that lead to enjoyment and a sense of accomplishment. (0324. depression)

Using Behavioral Activation to Overcome Depression

Behavioral Activation is an evidence-based treatment for depression that focuses on engagement in activities aligned with personal values and interests to increase positive reinforcement from the environment. Doing things when you are depressed is not easy, but this worksheet helps people understand the cycle of inactivity and depression, monitor their daily activities, schedule and do meaningful activities, and problem-solve obstacles to behavioral activation. (0324, DBT, behavioral psychology, depression)

How Does Bullying Affect You? (Teens)

This worksheet is designed to introduce the topic of bullying to teens with questions about whether teens have experienced bullying, how they responded, and how it affected them. (0324, bullying)

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