Changing Thoughts - Anxiety CBT Group Counseling Curriculum

Group curriculum with 8 sessions for grades 4-6 using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) strategies to address anxiety, worries, stress, and other emotions. In each session, students will learn a different CBT strategy, practice through discussion & scenario cards, then complete an independent reflection worksheet. Download also includes data tools, pre and post assessments, fully written lesson plans, group passes, scope & sequence, and a fully editable parent letter. Designed to require no prep from you - just print and go! Each session is intended to be about 30-45 minutes long. 

8 Sessions:

1. What’s Your Temperature - Learning to recognize different levels of anxiety and how they affect you differently.
2. Can or Will? - Considering the likelihood that worries will come true and planning for what will happen if they do.
3. Thoughts & Feelings - Helps students understand the difference between thoughts and feelings and introduces the concept that thoughts are changeable.
4. Think Different - Explores how changing your thoughts can result in a different outcome.
5. Red Flags - Helps students to identify thoughts that are not helpful.
6. The ABC’s - Helps students identify activating events for their anxiety, the beliefs they have about those events, and what the consequences are.
7. Brain Lies - Explores cognitive distortions and how to change them.
8. Group Termination & Reflection - Students play a game to review all concepts from the group.

This Product Includes:

• 8 Full sessions that require minimal prep, each aligned with ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors, each about 30-45 minutes long
• Complete lesson plans
• Worksheets and activities
• Discussion cards
• Vibrant visual aids
• Pre and post assessment aligned with ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors
• Data collection tools
• Scope & Sequence
• Group Passes
• Fully editable parent letter

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Please note that for copyright reasons, the included items are not editable, except for the parent letter. To edit the parent letter, the download includes a link to a google slide, which you can edit and print. This is a single use license purchase, meaning it may be used by you with your students as many times as you like. It may not be shared with others, even those in your building. If others would like to use it, you may purchase additional licenses at a discount. Please see the full terms of use included with this product for more details.