Fear ladder

Avoidance and safety-seeking behavior serves to maintain anxiety, and exposure to the fear stimuli/situation is an effective treatment for anxiety. This Avoidance Hierarchy CBT worksheet helps clients to plan exposure tasks.

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Facing Your Fears is a worksheet to help therapists draw up a graded exposure hierarchy with children and young people.

Sam has a BIG SECRET. He is embarrassed that a brave turtle, like him, is terrified of water. Whenever he approaches a river, Sam has trouble breathing, his heart pounds quickly, and his body shakes. Sam thinks something terrible is going to happen.

Recommended age: 6-12For: Individuals or groupsRequires: Parent or professional to facilitate Includes: Two PDF worksheets (Download here or at the end of the post)Will enhance social and emotional skills: • Self Awareness: Identify own beliefs and values • Social Awareness: Respect for others • Responsible decision-making skillsAre you looking for a simple activity for your child to identify their values that is fun and engaging?Or maybe you are wondering, why it is important for children…

Understand the link between fear and judgment and learn how NOT to get stuck in a cycle of negativity - print this FREE worksheet (made by a therapist!) to learn how!

There are so many emotion charts around. It doesn't matter if us use a thermometer of emotions, a ladder, a volcano, or a simple 0-10 scale of emotions. All of these charts are effective because they all have some very important things in common. They give the child the opportunity to identify the emotion without having to verbally express it, they help the child to label the emotion and they explicitly show the increasing intensity of an emotion. Verbally expressing emotions can be…

Challenge 7: Fear of Heights (and Ladders) Hi friends! I came to the conclusion that, thankfully, I really don’t have any irrational fears or phobias (except of maybe failure, hahaha!). Thus, I chose...

On September 15th Andrew Dlugan posted on his Six Minutes blog about The Ladder of Abstraction and the Public Speaker. He discussed S. I. Hayakawa’s concept that we think and communicate in varying degrees of abstraction ranging from the concrete (ground) to the abstract (sky). Andrew also mentioned Roy Peter Clark having discussed how you need to learn to climb up and down the ladder in his book Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer. On the Poynter Institute web site Roy…

Looking for a polyvagal ladder worksheet to use with your children and family? In this post, learn how polyvagal theory can help your family!

🔍 Understanding Our Nervous System Through the "Polyvagal Ladder" 🧠💡 Our autonomic nervous system operates like a highly coordinated team with three key players, engaging and recovering in a specific sequence. Let’s explore the "Polyvagal Ladder," a concept by Dr. Stephen Porges, made practical by Deb Dana. 1️⃣ Ventral Vagal Complex - This is the part of the parasympathetic branch that’s all about social engagement, connection, and safety. 🌟 THIS FEELS LIKE: Joy, connection, creativity…

Download the FREE printable word game, Word Ladders! Print the game and play during word work or word instruction!

Download the Goal Ladder, a free printable worksheet from What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens.

With loved ones around us, rejection doesn’t hurt for very long. Regret, on the other hand, can last a lifetime. So make it a game.

𝘿𝙊 𝙄𝙏 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙁𝙀𝘼𝙍 rather than — Not Doing it because of Fear Although Fear sometimes holds us back, Makes us miss a couple of opportunities, and even cripples us from climbing to greater heights, But Fear at the same time triggers our innate will to move forward, Redirects us to desire better opportunities, and even enables us to take each step of our dreams’ ladder one at a time. Fear might come in our way sometimes; however, Fear serves as a reminder to embrace our…

Healthy emotions reflect a healthy body — you shouldn’t have to think much about them. When a problem arises, rather than burying it deeper, you mend it.