Worksheets “Survival Rules” with Example Form

Worksheet Set: The Survival Rule and the new compassionate “Rule of Life”

Let’s talk “Survival Rules”! Super important to identify crucial core beliefs, super helpful in clarifying motives and a great first step towards changing behavior.

This worksheet makes identifying survival rules (see Strategic Behavioral Therapy by Serge Sulz) easy. Survival rules will be identified with four simple questions and transformed into new, helpful life rules in the second step.

To make the survival rules tangible, you will find elements from motivational interviewing alongside the classic questions. In this way, your patients or clients will learn how to implement the theory straight away, turning it into action. One worksheet should be completed for each survival rule. Initially you should help your patients during the session, but they should be able to complete it at home on their own afterwards. This set includes a filled-in example sheet that clarifies how to answer the questions. This worksheet set is a must-have in behavioral and systemic therapy.

This therapy tool is also included in the English Worksheets Mega Bundle which includes all English worksheets in one download at a 10% rebate.