Emotions Worksheets

What Is An Emotions Worksheet?

Exploring emotions and reflecting on one’s behaviors while in an emotional state can be a difficult task for anyone, which is why we have created this Emotions Worksheet.

Worksheets are useful tools for clinicians to engage their clients in their own treatment and uncover insights into their client’s thoughts and behaviors and the underlying emotions behind them. For clients new to therapy or counseling, it can be difficult for them to see the connection between emotions, thoughts, and behaviors – and so this Emotions Worksheet focuses on identifying emotions, and the ways they impact our thoughts and behaviors. This worksheet also helps your client learn to reflect and choose behaviors that will have more positive outcomes.

How To Use This Emotions Worksheet

We’ve ensured this worksheet is detailed enough to be completed independently by your client, so it couldn’t be simpler to start incorporating this worksheet into your practice and reaping the therapeutic benefits. To see how a sample client might complete this worksheet, just take a look at our Emotions Worksheet example in the following section, otherwise, if you want to ensure you aren’t missing anything- just follow this simple step-by-step guide.

Step One. Download the worksheet

The first step is to download a copy of the worksheet, which you can do for free using the link on this page, or from within your Carepatron app.

Step Two. Provide a copy to your client

Next, you will need to provide a copy of the worksheet for your client to complete. While we have ensured the worksheet has sufficient description to allow your client to complete it on their own, you may wish to read over the below steps to ensure you fully understand what is expected from each part of the worksheet and feel confident to answer any questions.

Step Three. Client to complete the worksheet

This Emotions Worksheet has several steps, detailed briefly below:

• Emotion: Identify primary and secondary emotions and assign a rating of the intensity of this emotion
• Situation: Describe the activating event (situation) that led to these emotions
• Thoughts: Describe the thoughts they had at the time
• Feelings: Recall physical feelings as a result of the emotion
• Behavior: Report their behavioral response as a result of the emotion
• Outcome: Describe the outcome of this behavior
• Reflection: Reflect on if this was a desirable outcome, and what some alternative behaviors could be.

Step Four. Discuss their responses

Once your client has completed the worksheet, if they are happy to share their responses with you, this worksheet can be a great discussion starter and way to gain insight into your client’s thinking patterns and the motivation behind their behaviors.

Step Five. Store the worksheet securely (if applicable)

Finally, if your client chose to return this worksheet to you – ensure you store it securely in your patient’s record due to the confidential information it contains.

Who Can Use these Printable Emotions Worksheets (PDF)?

Due to the general format and widely applicable subject matter of this Emotions Worksheet, there is a wide variety of clients and practitioners who will find this worksheet a useful therapeutic tool. Practitioners who may wish to consider incorporating this worksheet into their practice include:

• Therapists
• Counselors
• Clinical Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Mental Health Nurses
• Family Doctors
• Child and Adolescent Psychologists

And many others. This worksheet can be assigned to adults or teens, regardless of their primary concern or diagnosis. It may particularly benefit those who are working on:

• Anger management
• Depression or Anxiety Disorders
• Mood Disorders
• Adjustment Disorders

Why Is This Form Useful For Therapists?

There are a variety of ways this worksheet can work to improve therapy practices. These include:

• Broadly Applicable: This worksheet can be used by a variety of clients, for those with a primary mood disorder diagnosis or for those who have never been formally diagnosed but wish to get a better handle on their emotions. As such, this is a particularly helpful worksheet as it can benefit a wide range of your clients.
• Can be completed independently: We have included simply worded questions and descriptions for each part of the worksheet to ensure your clients can confidently complete it independently. This can then save you time within your sessions, so you can focus on discussing the important findings from their responses.
• Save Time with Pre-made Resources: When you don’t have to design, create, and format your own resources and can just use a pre-made and clearly formatted worksheet template- you’ll find you have a lot more time to spare!

Benefits of Emotions Worksheet Template

Fully digital

One benefit of this Emotions Worksheet is that it can be completed entirely digitally. This means you can send, complete, and store this worksheet without you or your client requiring access to a printer. Keeping your resources digital also has benefits for improving your data security, as you are able to utilize digital encryption rather than relying on physical safeguards.

Help your clients reflect on their emotions

Introspection can be a difficult task for those who have not practiced it before, and so this worksheet can be a hugely valuable resource to help clients begin to get in touch with their emotions in a structured way.

Help your clients think about the future

This worksheet not only facilitates reflection but also encourages your clients to look to the future and brainstorm alternative behaviors that will benefit them the next time they have to reckon with the emotion in question.

Engage your clients in their treatment

Providing “homework” to your clients is a great way to maintain therapeutic progress between sessions, as well as engage your clients as partners in their own treatment. By having your clients engage in these exercises, they will be able to build up their ability to recognize and process their own emotions.

Gain insights on your client in their own words

Finally, worksheets can be a great tool to better understand your client’s perspectives in their own words. Their responses to this worksheet can serve as discussion starters or can inform their future treatment decisions.