Help students understand how their thoughts, feelings, and choices are connected with this 20-page CBT social story and coloring workbook. This resource introduces cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) concepts through simple explanations, drawing activities, and self-reflection.

Students learn what thoughts and feelings are and how helpful and unhelpful thoughts influence emotions and behavior. Full-page workbooks, foldable booklets, and a Google Slides presentation offer options for individual counseling, small groups, classroom SEL lessons, and telehealth sessions.

📦 What's Included:

• 20-page CBT social story workbook: Explains what thoughts and feelings are, how thoughts, feelings, and behavior connect, and how helpful and unhelpful thoughts affect emotions.
• Drawing and reflection activities: Students draw helpful and unhelpful thoughts, identify their own examples, and draw how powerful they feel when they take control of their thoughts.
• Full-page color and black-and-white versions: Read together or let students color and personalize their workbooks.
• Foldable booklets in color and black and white: Use as an alternative to the full-page workbook.
• Google Slides presentation: Display during counseling, classroom lessons, telehealth, or distance learning.

All illustrations are hand-drawn. Print the workbook or selected pages, or display the PDF on screen for a group or class.

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

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

Want a discount on this? Check out the: CBT Activities Bundle includes:

• This Thoughts, Feelings, and Choices workbook: Introduce the connection between thinking, emotions, and behavior.
• Catch It, Check It, Change It Football Game: Practice noticing, evaluating, and reframing thoughts with 104 thought cards, printable gameplay, digital cards, a poster, and progress-monitoring tools.
• Feelings Flowers and Thought Pots: Match thoughts to feelings, sort helpful and unhelpful thoughts, and practice changing unhelpful thinking.
• CBT Directed Drawing Sets 1–3: Explore CBT skills through 90 prompts and 10 guided drawings, with editable prompts to customize activities.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

• Understanding connections between thoughts, feelings, and behavior
• Identifying helpful and unhelpful thoughts
• Building emotional awareness and self-reflection
• Recognizing personal thinking patterns
• Developing self-awareness and self-management

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Read the social story during individual counseling or small-group sessions.
• Use drawing activities to explore students’ thoughts and how they affect feelings.
• Create foldable booklets for students to revisit or take home.
• Present Google Slides during classroom SEL lessons or telehealth sessions.
• Use black-and-white pages for coloring and reflection.

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

For school counselors, social workers, psychologists, child therapists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, special education teachers, classroom teachers, and homeschool educators working with grades 2–6.

Use to introduce CBT concepts and support emotional awareness, helpful thinking, and understanding the connection between thoughts, feelings, and choices.

📚 More CBT Resources:

Read the Supporting Children’s Mental Health with CBT for ways to explain the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to children.

🖨️ Format & Download:

• Printable PDF: Full-page workbook and foldable booklet, each in color and black and white
• Google Slides presentation

📌 Important Notes:

• Helpful thinking does not mean ignoring difficult feelings or expecting students to think positively all the time. Encourage students to notice thoughts and explore more balanced, supportive alternatives.
• This resource introduces CBT concepts and is not a substitute for individualized mental health treatment.
• This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped. Due to the digital nature of this resource, all sales are final and refunds are not available.