Self Esteem Worksheets
Help your clients recognize all the good they have to offer the world with our Self-Esteem Worksheet, designed to help them identify and affirm their positive traits and build up a positive view of themselves.
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What Is A Self-Esteem Worksheet?
A is a tool for your clients to practice recognizing and affirming the positive things about themselves. Like many things, building up self-esteem takes time and practice, and this worksheet is designed to help your clients ensure they are keeping up that practice and working towards a more positive view of themselves.
This worksheet is an interactive resource designed for your clients to take home and complete independently over several days to help them begin to notice the positive things about themselves.
Printable Self Esteem Worksheets
Download these Self Esteem Worksheets to help improve your clients’ confidence and guide toward positive treatment outcomes.
How To Use This Self-Esteem Worksheet
Once you have downloaded the worksheet and given your client a copy in either digital or paper form, they just need to follow these simple steps to start completing their Self Esteem Worksheet.
Step One. Add Your Name and Date
There is space for your client’s Name and Date at the top of the worksheet. The Date can be particularly helpful for monitoring your client’s progress, as they may wish to repeat the worksheet and see the differences from when they initially started treatment.
Step Two. Fill in the “My Positive Qualities” Table
This table is for your client to fill in anything positive about themselves, however small. This could be a skill, achievement, challenges they overcame, quality, or strength. Encourage your client to fill out all five with positive qualities, regardless of how insignificant they may seem.
Step Three. Fill in the Positivity Journal
Once your client has identified positive qualities about themselves, the next step is for them to start noticing these qualities in their daily lives. To do this, we have created a positivity journal template where they can identify the positive quality they displayed, how they showed it, and identify one thing they are grateful for. Practicing gratitude has huge benefits for physical and mental well-being, including boosting self-esteem.
Step Four. Store the Worksheet Securely
If your client chooses to return the worksheet to you for discussion of their results, it is your responsibility to store the worksheet securely in their clinical record. Otherwise, your client may wish to hold onto the worksheet themselves.
Self-Esteem Worksheet Example (Sample)
To see how this worksheet can help your clients start to recognize and appreciate the positive things about themselves, take a look at our Self Esteem Worksheet Example. This example completed worksheet is based on a fictional client but illustrates how the Positive Traits table and the Positivity Journal interact to help your client build up their self-esteem. Take a look at the sample here, or you can download it as a PDF if you prefer.
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Who Can Use these Printable Self-Esteem Worksheets (PDF)?
Any health practitioners who work with clients that may be struggling with their view of themselves can benefit from offering this worksheet in their practice. Whether you work in the healthcare or mental health space, if your client has low self-esteem or a negative view of themselves, this worksheet can help them to build up their ability to recognize the good in themselves. Professionals who may find this worksheet useful include:
- Nurses and Nurse Practitioners
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Counselors
- Life Coaches
- Mentors
- Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Nurses
- Mental Health Nurses
- Social Workers
Why Is This Form Useful For Therapists?
Monitor your client’s progress over time
By having your client complete this worksheet both at the beginning of their treatment with you and again once their self-esteem has improved, you’ll be able to demonstrate how much easier they find it to identify the positive things they have to offer. This can be a powerful exercise to illustrate their progress, and also to celebrate how far they have come.
Build up evidence of your client’s positive traits
Many of your clients will have an “I’ll believe it when I see it” approach to the positive things about themselves, and we’ve got you covered there. This Self-Esteem Worksheet helps your clients to see the positive traits they have in action by recalling specific incidences of when they demonstrated a positive trait or strength that they have. By the time they’ve finished the positivity journal, they will have indisputable evidence as to the existence of positive traits within themselves.
Help your client form positive habits
The positivity journal section of this Self-Esteem Worksheet also includes a column for highlighting one thing your client was grateful for that day. Along with reflecting on one thing they did well that day, this activity helps to get your clients into the habit of self-reflection and positive affirmation.
Why Use Carepatron For Self-Esteem Worksheets?
Helping your clients build up healthy self-esteem is difficult enough without getting into the administrative headache of storing progress notes, sharing health records, and ensuring you are abiding by your legal obligations for the confidentiality of your client’s information. That’s where Carepatron can help.
Carepatron is the solution to all your administrative needs, including ones you didn’t even know you had! With Carepatron you can send out automatic appointment reminders, manage your team’s calendar at a glance, automate your superbills, let your clients book their own appointments with you, access a whole library of resources like this Self-Esteem Worksheet, and best of all, join a team of 10,000+ enthusiastic healthcare practitioners working to make their practices the best they can be.
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References
1. Monica Y. Bartlett, Piercarlo Valdesolo & Sarah N. Arpin (2020) The paradox of power: The relationship between self-esteem and gratitude, The Journal of Social Psychology, 160:1, 27-38, DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2019.1601609
Commonly asked questions
Practicing gratitude means taking time to appreciate all the people or things that bring joy or make your life a little easier. This practice alone has wide-reaching benefits, including improving self-esteem1. This is likely due to the fact that once someone has opened their eyes to see how others can positively impact their lives, they also naturally begin to recognize how they can positively impact others, and build up a more positive mental picture of themselves.
Be sure to convey to your client that these positive qualities can be as small or seemingly insignificant as they need. If they can’t think of qualities, this section could also include skills, abilities, challenges they have overcome in the past, or even negative traits that they do not have.
If your client wishes to return the completed worksheet to you, ensure you store this securely in their client record as it contains confidential information. If your client chooses to hold onto the worksheet, this can be a great reminder of their positive traits if they ever feel down about themselves in the future.
