Depression Worksheets

Our workbook contains our best depression worksheets to help you understand your depression, develop effective coping skills, and manage challenging moments.

Behavior activation, or activity scheduling, is a cognitive behavioral technique that has been shown to help people overcome depression.

When we are feeling depressed, sometimes our brains can get stuck in certain “modes,” or ways of thinking. When we can name cognitive distortions, it can be easier to pause and look at a situation from a new perspective.

You can recognize unhealthy thought patterns that are making your depression symptoms worse by practicing cognitive restructuring with this worksheet.

Creating a personal strengths inventory can be a helpful way to counter self-criticism and shift your focus from perceived weaknesses to positive qualities.

This downward arrow technique worksheet helps you find the core belief under an upsetting thought, with a worked example, guiding questions, and space to question the belief.

This creative hopelessness worksheet helps you look at what you have tried to escape painful feelings, with a table to rate each strategy and prompts for what to try next.

This ACT choice point worksheet helps you notice when hard thoughts and feelings hook you, with a guide to the map, a worked example, and space to plan towards moves.

This miracle question worksheet helps you picture life after a problem is solved, with the question itself, a 0 to 10 scale, and prompts for small steps.

This ACT hexaflex worksheet helps you understand the six skills of psychological flexibility, with a description of each, a self-rating, and space to plan one small step.

This worksheet will help you use defusion to “zoom out” and view your thoughts as what they are – just thoughts, not necessarily truths.

This workbook is designed to guide you through exploring why these patterns of thinking emerge, what fuels them, and how to recognize them in real-time.

It’s important to remember that asking for support isn’t a sign of weakness. Supporting each other is part of being a friend, family member, neighbor, and community member.

Sometimes we get so overwhelmed that we cope in unhealthy or maladaptive ways, even if we don’t intend to. This worksheet can help you catch unhealthy coping urges in the moment and replace them with healthier options.

When kids are feeling worried, sad, angry, or overwhelmed, sometimes their brains can get stuck in certain “modes”. When we help them name these modes, it can help them see a situation from a new perspective.

Cognitive distortions are ways of thinking that aren’t actually true, but feel true in the moment. When we can name these modes, it can be easier to pause and look at a situation from a new perspective.

When we have big emotions, it can be helpful to check in with our thoughts, feelings, sensations, and behaviors. This check-in process helps us slow down, so that later, we can decide how best to cope.

When our kids have big emotions, it can be helpful to check in with their thoughts, feelings, sensations, and behaviors.

Setting boundaries is crucial for managing depression because it helps protect your mental and emotional well-being.

SMART Goals is a structured goal-setting method that can help individuals with depression create clear and manageable objectives.