Anger Situations Worksheet
You can use the following situations to practice how you might deal with frustration and anger
by changing either your initial reactions or your subsequent reactions.
Situation . While you are driving, another driver comes up behind you, tailgates for several
minutes, pulls around you and angrily gives you the finger, and then pulls in front of you and
slows down.
Describe your thoughts, possible ways to deal with the situation, and your ideas for how to prevent it
from happening again.
Situation . You are asked to undergo an independent medical examination. You just had a number of examinations by your own doctor, and you wonder why they just can’t take your doctor’s
test results and opinions as they are intended. You don’t want to have this examination, and you
are afraid that it will mean cutting off your disability funds and a decision that will negatively
affect your life.
Describe your reaction.
How could you challenge your thoughts about this situation?
Edward J. Hickling, Edward B. Blanchard
Overcoming the Trauma of Your Motor Vehicle Accident : Sessions 7 Through 9. Copyright © 2006 by Oxford University Press
Oxford Clinical Psychology | Oxford University Press
Situation . You don’t feel well. Your neck has been bothering you all day. Medication has not
helped the pain, and you slept poorly the night before. Your child comes in from school very excitedly and jumps on your lap. This produces more pain. You have told your child many times
to be careful around you because of your injuries, but he or she does not seem to listen.
What is your initial reaction?
What are your thoughts?
What are some possible alternative thoughts?
What are some possible alternative reactions?
Edward J. Hickling, Edward B. Blanchard
Overcoming the Trauma of Your Motor Vehicle Accident : Sessions 7 Through 9. Copyright © 2006 by Oxford University Press
Oxford Clinical Psychology | Oxford University Press