Cognitive Thinking Errors @Teenage

Know Yourself Better

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Black and white thinking: Parents /Teachers are

awesome or awful(bad).

# All or nothing thinking. “If I you don’t let me do this, I

will never be popular with my friends.”

Over-generalized thinking. “Everyone else’s parents let them

Emotional reasoning. If I feel something it must be true. “If I don’t get those new jeans, I will never fit in.”

# Imaginary Audience Syndrome

Teenagers believe that everyone is watching and preoccupied with the smallest details of his or her life. “Everyone is going to notice this about me ; I

can’t go to class /school like this.”

#Preoccupation with right and wrong; fairness. Teenagers have a long list of shoulds, oughts, and high expectations for others especially parents/Teachers . “I should be able to do what I want to , I am 15/16/17and that is mature/grown up.

#Present-orientated.

• Focus is on short term, immediate gratification. “I need that new video game / dress / Jacket /T-Shirt /Phone today

#Egocentric thoughts; finding it difficult to focus on anyone else’s experience.

“I do all the things for myself .I am in the hostel ! You never help out.”

They are not aware (in this moment) that Parents go to work and pay the bills for a better and comfortable education and life .

#Serious miscalculations about adult wisdom; or the belief that adults know both more and less than they do.

“They will never understand what I am going through, times are different”.