Anger Thought Challenging Record
Help clients identify and address angry thoughts using the Anger Thought Challenging Record.
Anger Thought Challenging Record
Hundreds of ‘automatic’ thoughts pop into our minds every day, often without us noticing. Depending on their content, these thoughts can lead us to feel joy or excitement, while others might lead to anger or frustration. Our thoughts can also be biased: not every thought we have is 100% accurate or helpful.
The Anger Thought Challenging Record can help you
- Become more aware of your automatic thoughts.
- Identify biases in your thinking.
- Re-evaluate and respond to thoughts that leave you feeling angry, frustrated, or resentful.
Complete this thought record whenever you feel angry or experience angry thoughts.
Overview
Evaluating and disputing thoughts is a fundamental skill taught by cognitive therapists to their clients. The Anger Thought Challenging Record can help clients think more accurately, practice the process of questioning their thoughts, and address unhelpful biases in their thinking.
Clients are encouraged to record specific instances in which angry thoughts, feelings, or responses were triggered, including details of their emotional reactions and any associated body sensations. Training clients to record specific details is often helpful when later elaborating a memory for an event, or simply in understanding the reasons for subsequent thoughts and responses. Clients are also instructed to generate alternate ways of interpreting these experiences.
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