Counseling Techniques: Reframing Negative Thoughts
Many students you see for counseling struggle with negative thinking. Teach students step by step how to reframe negative thoughts.
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CBT counseling bundle for individual and small-group sessions | Grades 3-7 | 11 research-based resources | 500+ pages | PDF, editable PowerPoint & Google Slides.
CBT-based counseling activities and tools you'll reach for again and again to help students understand and manage how they think, feel, and act. Eleven research-based resources that teach strategies students can use on their own, cover the referral concerns that fill your caseload, and give real structure to your sessions.
With this bundle, you'll help students:
- Identify their feelings and coping strategies
- Understand common thinking errors
- Challenge unhelpful thoughts
- Build positive self-talk
- Connect their thoughts, feelings, and actions
- Make a plan to change how they think, feel, and act
What's Included
Eleven CBT counseling resources that work together, from a first feelings check-in all the way to a plan for change. Over 500 pages in all, with color and black-and-white printables plus Google Slides versions.
- Cognitive Behavioral Worksheets: 15 reusable CBT worksheets covering feelings scales, thought-feeling-behavior connections, and problem-solving. 30+ pages, PDF and Google Slides.
- Think-Feel-Act Worksheets: simple worksheets linking a thought to a feeling to an action, great for younger students. Included freebie.
- Feelings Check-In Activities and Feelings Poster: daily check-in visuals, feelings cards, and a poster to build feelings vocabulary. 80+ pages, PDF and Google Slides.
- Negative Thinking Counseling Activities: activities and visuals to name and understand common thinking errors. 150+ pages, PDF.
- Catch, Check, Challenge, Change Worksheets: scaffolded practice to catch a negative thought, question it, and reframe it. 135+ pages, PDF.
- Negative/Positive Thinking Sort Activity: a hands-on sort to tell too-negative, too-positive, and balanced thinking apart. 16 pages, with an editable PowerPoint.
- Bright Thoughts Positive Thinking Activities: a minibook and activities for building personalized positive self-talk. 10 pages, PDF.
- CBT Problem-Solving Maps for School Counseling: visual maps that walk students through problem-solving step by step. 35 pages, PDF.
- Positive Thinking Self-Talk Lesson and Craft: a lesson plus craft that makes positive self-talk stick. 18 pages, PDF.
- CBT Activities to Connect Thoughts and Feelings: scripted scenes and sorts that link thoughts, feelings, and actions. 28 pages, PDF.
- Cognitive Distortions Counseling Tools and Posters: posters and tools that put common thinking errors in kid-friendly terms. 65 pages, PDF.
Tools you'll use again and again:
- Feelings thermometers and visuals to scale feelings
- Problem-solving maps that show how a change in thinking changes what students do
- Kid-friendly names for automatic thinking errors
- Activities to challenge and replace unhelpful thoughts
- A personal plan template students can carry between sessions
Why This, Why Now
Half your caseload could use CBT, and pulling together a coherent set of activities for each student eats the prep time you don't have. This bundle is the shortcut: eleven resources that already fit together, from spotting a thought trap to swapping it for a helpful one. Because it's rooted in CBT and built for short-term counseling, you get structure for your sessions and strategies students can use on their own. Pull the piece that matches the student in front of you, whether that's a first-time small group or a one-on-one you've been seeing all year.
How It Fits Together
The pieces follow the natural CBT arc, so you can run them in order or pull what a student needs:
- Start with feelings: check in and name what's going on.
- Spot the thinking: identify common thinking errors.
- Question it: catch, check, and challenge unhelpful thoughts.
- Rebuild it: sort balanced thinking and build positive self-talk.
- Connect it: link thoughts, feelings, and actions.
- Plan it: make a plan to change how they think, feel, and act.
Ways to Use It
Individual counseling sessions, small-group CBT lessons, Tier 2 interventions, or a go-to toolkit you pull from all year. Built for school counselors, psychologists, and social workers. Use it in person or in Google Slides.
Good to Know
- 11 research-based CBT resources that work together, from identifying negative thinking to replacing it
- 500+ pages, print in color or black-and-white, or use in Google Slides
- Editable PowerPoint included for the pieces you want to customize
- Built for short-term counseling: flexible, adaptable, and ready to pull as needs come up
- Complete bundle, with everything included from day one
- Instant digital download
Details
- Grade level: 3-7
- Ideal for: individual counseling and small groups
- For: school counselors, psychologists, and social workers
- Format: PDF, editable PowerPoint, and Google Slides; color and black-and-white
- Length: 500+ pages across 11 resources
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