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Thinking Traps: Spotting & Dealing With Automatic Negative Thoughts ANTS
Completed by 203 learners
Ages 7-12
Live Group Class
Average rating:
4.6
Number of reviews:(801 reviews)
Popular
Live video meetings
1x per week, 4 weeks
3-12 learners per class
30 min
What’s included
4 live meetings
2 in-class hoursMastery Evaluation
1 hour per week. practicing in everyday life to enhance skillClass Experience
Words can be helpful or words can hurt. In the same way, our thoughts can be helpful or hurt. Self-Talk, aka Metacognition, or "thinking about thinking" is a very important executive function of the prefrontal cortex of the brain. It is the last executive function to develop fully (estimates say anywhere from 22 to 25 years old). This makes it so crucial to not only notice what we are thinking and also notice the quality of our thoughts. Thoughts that make us feel bad about ourselves are Automatic Negative Thoughts or A.N.T.s. They spontaneously pop into our head automatically and they are negative. The worst part is that they can feel like they are true. Let's Explore the common A.N.T.S together. It's never too soon to notice our thoughts and decide if they are helpful or not.
Learning Goals
to gain knowledge of the 16 most common "thinking traps" aka cognitive distortionsSyllabus
4 Lessons
over 4 WeeksLesson 1:
Introduction to A.N.Ts and the first 4 of the 16 most common "thinking traps"
Personalizing- Blaming yourself for something that was not your fault.
All or Nothing (Black or White) Thinking- Things are all good or all bad
Overgeneralizing-making conclusions based on one negative experience
Always Right- Thinking that you are always right, even if it is just an opinion 30 mins online live lesson
Lesson 2:
The next 4 of the 16 most common "thinking traps"
Filtering- Only paying attention to the negative aspects while ignoring positive
Discounting the Positive- minimizing personal achievements as inconsequential or invalid
Blaming- Not taking responsibility for actions
Labeling- Giving labels to yourself or others 30 mins online live lesson
Lesson 3:
The next 4 of the 16 most common "thinking traps"
Emotional Reasoning- believing that negative emotions are the reality
Shoulds- Using words like “should” and “must” can make you feel guilty; things should be a certain way
Jumping to Conclusions 1 Fortune Telling- thinking you can predict the future and that it will be negative
Jumping to Conclusions 2- Mind Reading - Thinking you can read people’s minds 30 mins online live lesson
Lesson 4:
The final 4 of the 16 most common "thinking traps"
Binocular 1 -Minimizing- when you downplay significance of situation or event
Binocular 2- Magnifying (Catastrophizing) Thinking things are going to be way worse than they really are
Fairness -Thinking things are not fair to you
Control Fallacies- thinking you have complete control or no control at all 30 mins online live lesson
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Meet the teacher
Teacher expertise and credentials
Doctoral Degree in Psychology from University of Connecticut
I am an Executive Function specialist and coach. Metacognition (self talk) is an executive function that is the very last one to develop and it is critically important. Reviews
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