Worksheet
Helps clients recognize the self-sabotaging beliefs that quietly undercut their progress and challenge them before they turn into behavior.
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This worksheet focuses on helping individuals recognize and overcome self-sabotaging views that can hinder their recovery and personal progress. It encourages self-reflection on how negative self-perceptions, such as feeling incompetent, unintelligent, flawed, or undeserving of good, can lead to behaviors that undermine success. By evaluating different aspects of self-view-competence, intelligence, value, social acceptability, and deservingness-individuals are guided to identify positive qualities and replace distorted beliefs with healthier, more accurate perspectives. This process helps foster self-confidence, improve self-esteem, and set the stage for positive change and recovery.
Written by clinical psychologist Dr. Hal Baumchen, PsyD, LP, LADC, this printable PDF worksheet gives clinicians a practical, session-ready tool. The conversational, encouraging tone makes clinical concepts accessible to clients at any stage of recovery, while structured prompts keep the work focused and productive.
How clinicians use it: as an in-session exercise to open and structure discussion, as between-session homework to reinforce skills, as a progress tool to track growth over time, and as part of a treatment unit paired with the companion lesson and PowerPoint on this topic. Formatted for easy printing and immediate use in individual or group settings.
