Positive Belief Record Worksheet

Negative self-talk can impact many areas of a client’s life. It can cause challenges when managing mental health, including low self-esteem, poor self-worth, anxiety, depression, and more. An important part of therapy is learning how negative thoughts affect core beliefs and self-esteem.

Focusing on only negative beliefs can cause a client to struggle when coping with stress. It is helpful for clients in therapy to learn healthy ways to incorporate positive thinking patterns to balance negative beliefs.

About This Worksheet

Balancing negative beliefs can be challenging at first, but it can be helpful when improving self-talk and reducing negative thought patterns. The Positive Belief Record worksheet is a tool to use when helping clients learn how to balance negative beliefs with positive beliefs. It provides clients with a visual aid for understanding how negative thoughts can affect negative beliefs, and how to balance negative beliefs with positive and hopeful beliefs.

This worksheet can be used with adolescents and adults participating in cognitive therapy and can be utilized in individual and group counseling settings. It may also be used with older children at the therapist’s discretion.

Instructions

The goal of the worksheet is to balance negative beliefs with positive beliefs. On this worksheet, the client will see a scale. Whenever they are having a negative thought, they are to write it in the box on the Negative Belief side of the scale. Then, they will balance the negative belief with a positive belief on the right side of the scale.

This exercise can help the client learn how to balance negative and positive beliefs. It can help with improving self-image and reducing the experience of painful emotions and negative self-talk.

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