Help students understand how their thoughts, feelings, and choices are connected with this engaging 20-page CBT Social Story Workbook! This kid-friendly resource introduces cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) concepts through simple explanations, coloring pages, drawing activities, and opportunities for self-reflection.

Students learn what thoughts and feelings are, explore how helpful and unhelpful thoughts can influence their emotions, and begin recognizing connections between what they think, how they feel, and what they do. The activities encourage students to notice their own thinking patterns and explore more helpful ways of responding to challenging situations.

With full-page printable workbooks, foldable booklet versions, and a digital Google Slides presentation, this resource is flexible for individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL lessons, and telehealth sessions. It's a useful introduction to CBT concepts for students who benefit from visual explanations and creative activities.

📦 What's Included:

📘 20-Page CBT Social Story Workbook

• A 20-page social story and coloring workbook introducing basic CBT concepts.
• Kid-friendly explanations of what thoughts and feelings are.
• Visual explanations of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected.
• Opportunities to explore how helpful and unhelpful thoughts can affect emotions.
• Activities that support self-awareness and self-management.

🧠 Helpful vs. Unhelpful Thoughts Activities

• Draw what helpful thoughts might look like.
• Draw what unhelpful thoughts might look like.
• Identify helpful and unhelpful thoughts students have experienced.
• Explore how different thoughts can influence feelings and choices.
• Draw how powerful students feel when they take control of their thoughts.

🎨 Full-Page Color & Black-and-White Workbooks

• Full-color printable version of the social story workbook.
• Black-and-white printable version that students can color.
• Options for guided instruction, independent reflection, and creative engagement.

📖 Foldable CBT Social Story Booklets

• Foldable booklet version in full color.
• Foldable booklet version in black and white.
• Compact format for reviewing CBT concepts.
• An alternative to the full-page workbook for counseling sessions or take-home practice.

💻 Digital Google Slides Presentation

• Digital presentation of the CBT social story resource.
• Suitable for telehealth, distance learning, and screen sharing.
• Can be displayed during individual counseling, small groups, or classroom lessons.
• Offers an alternative to printing the workbook.

🎒 Quick Details: Grades 2–6 | 📘 20-page CBT social story | 🧠 Helpful vs. unhelpful thoughts | 🎨 Drawing + coloring activities | 📖 Color + B&W foldable booklets | 💻 Google Slides presentation | 🖨️ Printable PDF | Digital + print

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🧠 CBT Activities Bundle

• Includes this 20-page Thoughts, Feelings, and Choices CBT Social Story Workbook.
• Brings together CBT workbooks, games, directed drawing, and other activities.
• Offers additional opportunities to explore helpful thinking, coping skills, emotional awareness, and connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions.
• This larger bundle is a useful option for school counselors and mental health professionals who want a variety of activities for introducing and reinforcing CBT concepts.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Understanding connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

✔️ Identifying helpful and unhelpful thoughts

✔️ Building emotional awareness and self-reflection

✔️ Recognizing personal thinking patterns

✔️ Exploring more helpful and balanced self-talk

✔️ Developing self-awareness and self-management

✔️ Considering how thoughts can influence choices and responses

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Introduce the 20-page social story during individual counseling sessions to explain the connections between thoughts, feelings, and choices.
• Use the drawing activities to help students visualize helpful and unhelpful thoughts.
• Invite students to identify examples of thoughts they've experienced and explore how those thoughts affected their feelings.
• Create the foldable booklet during small-group counseling as a resource students can revisit.
• Present the Google Slides version during classroom SEL lessons or telehealth sessions.
• Use the black-and-white workbook as a coloring and reflection activity for students who enjoy creative expression.
• Revisit selected pages when students are learning coping skills, self-awareness, or strategies for responding to challenging situations.

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

Perfect for school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, child therapists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, special education teachers, classroom teachers, and homeschool educators working with students in second through sixth grade.

This resource is especially useful for professionals introducing CBT concepts, supporting emotional awareness, exploring helpful and unhelpful thinking, and teaching the connections between thoughts, feelings, and choices.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ 20-page printable CBT social story workbook.

✔️ Full-page color version.

✔️ Full-page black-and-white coloring version.

✔️ Foldable booklet in color and black and white.

✔️ Drawing and self-reflection activities.

✔️ Digital Google Slides presentation.

✔️ PDF and Google Slides formats.

This is a digital download containing printable PDF resources and a Google Slides version. No physical materials will be shipped.

📌 Important Notes:

This resource introduces basic cognitive behavioral therapy concepts through a social story, drawing, coloring, and reflection activities. It can be used as a starting point for conversations about how thoughts, feelings, and choices influence one another.

Students can participate through drawing, coloring, pointing, discussion, writing, or other communication methods that work for them.

Helpful thinking does not mean ignoring difficult feelings or requiring students to think positively all the time. Students can learn to notice their thoughts, recognize when a thought may not be serving them, and explore more balanced or supportive alternatives.

This resource is an educational introduction to CBT concepts and is not a substitute for individualized mental health treatment.

This listing includes the individual Thoughts, Feelings, and Choices Social Story CBT Workbook, not the complete CBT Activities Bundle.