Resources
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Course Materials
RESOURCES
PRACTICE
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Resource: Key Takeaways
High level summaries of the CBT for Educators course. -
Resource: Reinforcing Support Seeking Behavior
Reinforcing support seeking behavior as students learn to practice their CBT skills. Be extra mindful of students who have experienced trauma. -
Resource: Quick Guide to Recognizing Distress
A guide to help recognize, respond to, and refer students in distress.
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Practice: Recognizing Thinking Traps
Practice recognizing and reframing common thinking traps. Includes: thinking trap, what you might hear a student say, and reframing language that you can use to practice with your students. -
Worksheet: Activity Scheduling
Checklist of coping tools where students mark off activities of what helps them immediately feel better. -
Worksheet: Problem Solving
Print off or digitally fill out this worksheet to walk through solving a problem. -
Worksheet: Problem Solving EXAMPLE
View an example of a filled out worksheet
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Course PowerPoint: CBT for Educators
PDF of the course webinar PowerPoint slides -
PPT Link: Healthy Thinking Handout
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PPT Link: Psychology Tools Behavioral Experiments
How to use behavioral experiments to test what you believe -
PPT Link: Behavioral Activation Worksheets
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PPT Link: Behavioral Activation Video
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PPT Link: Distress Tolerance Coping Skills
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Additional Resource Library
CBT MODEL
COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING
BEHAVIORAL ACTIVATION
COPING
MINDFULNESS
RESOURCE SITE LINKS
Grades K-2
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CBT Scenario Cards
Activity that allows students to match scenario cards with situation, feelings, and behaviors that stem from that scenario. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students K-5 -
Feelings Thermometer Worksheet
Worksheet that helps students identify their feelings and energy using a thermometer as a scale. (TeachersPayTeachers) Students K-2
Grades 3-5
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The CBT Model Worksheet
Worksheet walks students through implementing the CBT model for a recent experience that was upsetting or nerve wracking. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 3-12. -
CBT Model
Handout that provides a visual representation of CBT cycle. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 3-12 -
CBT Scenario Cards
Activity that allows students to match scenario cards with situation, feelings, and behaviors that stem from that scenario. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students K-5 -
CBT Model Signs
Larger, printable visual representation of CBT cycle to be posted in classrooms. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 3-12
Grades 6-8
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The CBT Model Worksheet
Worksheet walks students through implementing the CBT model for a recent experience that was upsetting or nerve wracking. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 3-12. -
The CBT Model in Your Life
Worksheet asks students to identify a recent experience, the negative thoughts and emotions that stemmed from it, their reaction, and the outcome. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 9-12. -
CBT Model
Handout that provides a visual representation of CBT cycle. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 3-12 -
Applying the CBT Model: EXAMPLE
Examples of CBT model to help explain the relationship between situations, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Once you understand this relationship, you can control it better in your own life. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 6-12. -
CBT Model ActivitiesActivities to help students identify a thought, feeling, and behavior that stemmed from a specific situation and the outcome of that situation. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 6-12
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Psychoeducation on CBT Video
Video that gives a high level overview of CBT, and outlines an example of how students can implement cognitive coping, mindfulness, and behavioral activation. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 6-12 -
CBT Model Signs
Larger, printable visual representation of CBT cycle to be posted in classrooms. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 3-12
Grades 9-12
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The CBT Model Worksheet
Worksheet walks students through implementing the CBT model for a recent experience that was upsetting or nerve wracking. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 3-12. -
The CBT Model in Your Life
Worksheet asks students to identify a recent experience, the negative thoughts and emotions that stemmed from it, their reaction, and the outcome. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 9-12. -
CBT Model
Handout that provides a visual representation of CBT cycle. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 3-12 -
Upward and Downward SpiralsHandout provides a visual representation of how negative thoughts can turn into an upward or downward spiral depending on how you frame your thinking. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 9-12
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Applying the CBT Model: EXAMPLE
Examples of CBT model to help explain the relationship between situations, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Once you understand this relationship, you can control it better in your own life. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 6-12. -
CBT Model ActivitiesActivities to help students identify a thought, feeling, and behavior that stemmed from a specific situation and the outcome of that situation. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 6-12
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Psychoeducation on CBT Video
Video that gives a high level overview of CBT, and outlines an example of how students can implement cognitive coping, mindfulness, and behavioral activation. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 6-12 -
CBT Model Signs
Larger, printable visual representation of CBT cycle to be posted in classrooms. (TRAILS to Wellness) Students 3-12
Grades 3-5
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Reward Bank for Elementary Aged-Children
Handout explains how rewards can help students stick to their goals and do hard things while providing instructions for caregivers and adults to help implement reward banking. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-5 -
My Values
Worksheet that allows students to reflect on example values listed and identify their own personal values. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-8 -
Mindful Music Activity
Activity involving listening to music, writing what you notice, and reflecting on any feelings that were present while listening. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12
Grades 6-8
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Cycle of Inactivity
Handout walks through breaking the cycle of inactivity by choosing to get up and get moving! Includes strategies that may be helpful. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Behavioral Activation Ideas for Middle School
Handout includes a list of active coping ideas younger students can incorporate into their daily schedule with room for individual brainstorming. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-8 -
Cycle of Avoidance
Handout explains avoidance, the problems associated with avoidance, and outlines an examples scenario for exposure. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Planning to Get Active
Worksheet helps students identify activities they may like to do in order to be more physically active in order to feel better mentally. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Coping Skills Practice Log
Worksheet to help students reflect on how they are feeling before and after being active. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
My Values
Worksheet that allows students to reflect on example values listed and identify their own personal values. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-8 -
Mindful Music Activity
Activity involving listening to music, writing what you notice, and reflecting on any feelings that were present while listening. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Behavioral Activation Short Film
Learn about the cycle of inactivity and help students break it by setting goals and monitoring progress. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
NFL Play 60 Challenge
Encourage your students to get their recommended minutes or more of physical activity a day with these quick videos, featuring NFL Players. (TRAILS to Wellness & NFL Play 60 Challenge) Student 6-12
Grades 9-12
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Cycle of Inactivity
Handout walks through breaking the cycle of inactivity by choosing to get up and get moving! Includes strategies that may be helpful. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Behavioral Activation Ideas for Teens
Handout includes a list of active coping ideas teens can incorporate into their daily schedule with room for individual brainstorming. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Cycle of Avoidance
Handout explains avoidance, the problems associated with avoidance, and outlines an examples scenario for exposure. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Activity Brainstorming
Worksheet helps students identify people, places, and activities that will be most rewarding when trying to add fun activities to their lives. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Planning to Get Active
Worksheet helps students identify activities they may like to do in order to be more physically active in order to feel better mentally. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Coping Skills Practice Log
Worksheet to help students reflect on how they are feeling before and after being active. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Weekly Schedule for Behavioral Activation
Worksheet for students to create a schedule of activities that will lead to having positive experiences throughout their day. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Values in Action
Worksheet that allows students to reflect on a preset list of categories of values and then identify their own unique values. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Get Moving Calendar
Form to help log physical activity throughout the week to help build consistency. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Mindful Music Activity
Activity involving listening to music, writing what you notice, and reflecting on any feelings that were present while listening. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Sculpting Poses
Activity for students to make sculptures or poses personifying emotions or energy states. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Behavioral Activation Short Film
Learn about the cycle of inactivity and help students break it by setting goals and monitoring progress. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
The Effects of Exercise on Depression
A CNN news story about the power of exercise in treating depression; we hear from the Director of the Depression Center at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston and a patient who sought treatment for depression. (Trails to Wellness & CNN) Student 9-12 -
NFL Play 60 Challenge
Encourage your students to get their recommended minutes or more of physical activity a day with these quick videos, featuring NFL Players. (TRAILS to Wellness & NFL Play 60 Challenge) Student 6-12
Grades 3-5
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Easy Steps to Catch ANTs
Handout outlining how to catch automatic negative thoughts and untwist your thinking. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-5 -
Winston and Cleo's Think-Feel-Do Comic
Comic to help young students learn about how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are related and help to recognize them. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-5 -
Winston's and Cleo's Thoughts and Feelings
Worksheet to help young students match automatic thoughts with different feelings. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-5 -
Winston and Cleo Practice Coping Thoughts
Worksheet to help young students identify automatic negative thoughts and a corresponding coping thoughts. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-5 -
Winston and Cleo Find the ANTs
Worksheet to help young students identify automatic negative thoughts. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-5 -
Being an ANT Detective
Worksheet to help young students think about their automatic negative thoughts through a different lens. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-5
Grades 6-8
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Thinking Traps: Short List
Handout that identifies common thinking traps and provides examples for middle school students. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-8 -
Automatic and Coping Thoughts
Handout that identifies examples of automatic negative thoughts and provides corresponding coping thoughts. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
My Common ANTs
Worksheet to help identify automatic negative thoughts that arose as a result of a certain situation and match them to thinking traps. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-8 -
What is an ANT?
Handout to explain automatic negative thoughts. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-8 -
Cognitive Coping Comic Strip
Comic story to outline how cognitive coping can be used in every day life and prompts students to create their own! (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-8 -
Flip the Switch on Negative Thinking
Worksheet to identify automative negative thoughts and related feeling, behaviors, and potential outcomes of a situation. Then "flip the switch" from negative thinking and come up with an example of a more helpful coping thought. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-8 -
Identifying Different Thinking Traps
The goal of this activity is to allow group members to connect automatic thoughts to specific types of thinking traps. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Choose Your Own Adventure - School Play
Activity in which students make their decisions along the way about how to use their cognitive coping skills all related to a school play. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Choose Your Own Adventure - Friday Night
Activity in which students make their decisions along the way about how to use their cognitive coping skills all related to a Friday night. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Understanding Thoughts and Feelings
Activities to help students distinguish between thoughts and feelings. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-8 -
Cognitive Coping - Short Film
How can students build awareness of their automatic thoughts and learn to replace them with statements that are more helpful or realistic. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Kally: Identifying and Reframing Negative Thoughts
A University of Michigan varsity swimmer shares her experience with CBT and working to change her unhelpful thinking. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12
Grades 9-12
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Thinking Traps
Handout that identifies common thinking traps and provides examples for teens. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Automatic and Coping Thoughts
Handout that identifies examples of automatic negative thoughts and provides corresponding coping thoughts. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Healthy Thinking Handout
Handout providing information on healthy thinking and helping to identify and get out of thinking traps. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
5 Steps to Untwisting Your Thinking
5 steps to help students identify automatic thoughts and thinking traps while providing tough questions for reflection. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Identifying Automatic Thoughts Worksheet
Worksheet to help students fill in a situation and the corresponding thoughts, feelings, and thinking traps associated with it. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Coping Thought Practice
Worksheet to help put coping thinking into practice by identifying feeling associated with certain situations and listing coping thoughts to go along with each situation. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Identifying Different Thinking Traps
The goal of this activity is to allow group members to connect automatic thoughts to specific types of thinking traps. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Thinking Traps Signs
Printable signs for classrooms that identify common thinking traps. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Choose Your Own Adventure - School Play
Activity in which students make their decisions along the way about how to use their cognitive coping skills all related to a school play. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Choose Your Own Adventure - Friday Night
Activity in which students make their decisions along the way about how to use their cognitive coping skills all related to a Friday night. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Cognitive Coping - Short Film
How can students build awareness of their automatic thoughts and learn to replace them with statements that are more helpful or realistic. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Kally: Identifying and Reframing Negative Thoughts
A University of Michigan varsity swimmer shares her experience with CBT and working to change her unhelpful thinking. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12
Grades 3-5
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Grounding Skills
Details grounding skills that can be used in instances of distress. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Paper Folding Activity
Mindfulness paper folding activity for grounding students. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Alien Eating
A grounding activity involving food. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Ice Cube Exercise
Physical grounding activity. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Mindful Music Activity
Activity involving listening to music and completing related mindfulness worksheet. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Mindful Finger Maze
Mental and breathing exercise. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-8
Grades 6-8
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Grounding Skills
Details grounding skills that can be used in instances of distress. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Gratitude and Self-Compassion Script
A guided meditation on gratitude and self-compassion. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Paper Folding Activity
Mindfulness paper folding activity for grounding students. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Alien Eating
A grounding activity involving food. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Ice Cube Exercise
Physical grounding activity. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Mindful Music Activity
Activity involving listening to music and completing related mindfulness worksheet. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Lazy 8 Breathing
Breathing exercise. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-8 -
Mindful Finger Maze
Mental and breathing exercise. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-8 -
Gratitude and Self-Compassion
A guided meditation on gratitude and self-compassion. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Release: Video
Visually communicates the differences between calm and anxious states of mind and body, and then becomes a basic lesson in mindful meditation. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
3 Minute Body Scan Meditation Video
A body scan meditation alternates between a wide and narrow focus of attention; from focusing on your little toe all the way through the entire body. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12
Grades 9-12
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What is Mindfulness?
Overview of mindfulness and practices. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Knowing When to Use Mindfulness Distress Tolerance
Explanation of how mindfulness can be helpful and when to use it. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Distress Tolerance Skills
Offers tolerance skills that can be used in instances of distress. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
P.E.A.C.E. Mindfulness Practice
Instructions on how to use P.E.A.C.E. mindfulness for meditation. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Smartphone Applications for Guided Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness applications available for smartphones. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Grounding Skills
Details grounding skills that can be used in instances of distress. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Gratitude and Self-Compassion Script
A guided meditation on gratitude and self-compassion. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Paper Folding Activity
Mindfulness paper folding activity for grounding students. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Alien Eating
A grounding activity involving food. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Mindfulness Exercises and Resources
Various physical and mental meditation activities. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Ice Cube Exercise
Physical grounding activity. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Mindfulness for Teens
Four mindfulness activities for teens. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
Mindful Music Activity
Activity involving listening to music and completing related mindfulness worksheet. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 3-12 -
Gratitude and Self-Compassion
A guided meditation on gratitude and self-compassion. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Release: Video
Visually communicates the differences between calm and anxious states of mind and body, and then becomes a basic lesson in mindful meditation. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12 -
Mindfulness: Youth Voices Video
Young adults talk about their experiences with mindfulness practice. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 9-12 -
3 Minute Body Scan Meditation Video
A body scan meditation alternates between a wide and narrow focus of attention; from focusing on your little toe all the way through the entire body. (TRAILS to Wellness) Student 6-12
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-12
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