Mental Health Worksheets

On this page, we will provide you with a Feared Situation Hierarchy Worksheet. It will help you to deal with your feared situations and thoughts effectively.

What is a Feared Situation Hierarchy Worksheet?

An exposure hierarchy is one technique of cognitive-behavioral therapy, which is used to treat anxiety phobias and obsessive disorders. Exposure Hierarchy worksheet will gradually introduce you to feared stimuli, by creating a list of anxiety-producing situations. The triggers that cause you stress and provoke anxiety will be presented to you one by one in steps.  This will help you to face your fears and deal with them.

How will the Feared Situation Hierarchy Worksheet help?

This worksheet will help you to be prepared to face your most feared situation by the breakdown of the process. While designing an exposure hierarchy, the following things are considered:

• Your Feared object or situation
• Consequences of the exposure
• Safety behaviors
• Triggers and the context of the fear
• The focus is on the sources of anxiety.

Instructions on how to use the Feared Situation Hierarchy Worksheet

Keeping in mind, the points mentioned above create a list of feared objects, from less tolerable to most tolerable on a scale, and then expose yourself to the less tolerable situation to the most tolerable situation or object.

You can download this worksheet here.

Other worksheets you maybe interested in 

Below are links to a few more worksheets which are closely related to the worksheet above.

Hierarchy of Feared Situations Worksheet

Exposure Hierarchy Worksheet Pdf

Hierarchy of Fears Worksheet (Graded Exposure)

Conclusion

On this page, we provided you with a Feared Situation Hierarchy Worksheet, which hopefully helped you to deal with your feared situations and thoughts effectively.

If you have any questions or comments, please let us know.

Resources

The worksheets on this site should not be used in place of professional advice from a mental health professional. 

You should always seek help from a mental health professional or medical professional. We are not providing any advice or recommendations here.

There are various resources where you can seek help.

You could use Online-Therapy if you feel you need counselling.

If you live in the UK then this list of resources from the NHS may help you find help.

If you live in the USA then you could contact Mental Health America who may be able to assist you further.