Teach kids how thoughts, feelings, and actions are connected. This worksheet helps kids develop emotional intelligence and coping skills.
CBT for Kids: Thoughts, Feelings, & Actions worksheet is designed to help kids understand the interaction between their thoughts, feelings, and actions. By understanding this concept, children can learn to challenge negative thought patterns and develop positive coping mechanisms.
This Worksheet provides:
- A space for kids to identify challenging situations and their feelings about them
- A simple breakdown of complex concepts
- An opportunity to explore alternative thoughts, feelings, and actions
By utilizing Mentalyc’s CBT for Kids: Thoughts, Feelings, & Actions Worksheet you can:
- Equip kids with tools to manage their emotions
- Help kids develop healthy coping strategies
- Provide a simple resource for parents to use at home to reinforce therapy concepts
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What is the CBT for Kids: Thoughts, Feelings, & Actions worksheet?
CBT for Kids: Thoughts, Feelings, & Actions is a three-page sheet built around one triangle, with each corner explaining how it affects the other two. The worked example runs one situation, a bad grade on an English test, through Your Thoughts, Your Feelings and Your Actions.
How to use the CBT for Kids: Thoughts, Feelings, & Actions worksheet
Use this sheet both in session and as homework. Read page one aloud with the child first, since the definitions of thoughts, feelings and actions are written for them rather than for a parent. Work the Let’s Practice page together, starting at What happened? and moving around the triangle in order. Your clients can take the Your Turn page home with a parent, using a real event from that week rather than a made-up one.
CBT for Kids: Thoughts, Feelings, & Actions Worksheet Download – What’s Included
Three printable pages, not fillable. Page one is the explainer: a triangle of Thoughts, Feelings and Actions, each with a line on how it affects the other two. The wording is aimed at the child, not the parent. Page two is a filled example built on a bad grade, showing the original thoughts and the new ones side by side. Page three is Your Turn, the same layout left blank.
Based on Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy (CBT). Beck, J. S. (2020). Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond (3rd ed.). Guilford Press.
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