Thinking, Feeling, Behaving grades 7-12: An Emotional Education Curriculum for Adolescents

Thinking, Feeling, Behaving is a comprehensive and easy-to-use curriculum based on the principles of Rational-Emotive Behaviour Therapy. It helps students learn to use positive mental health concepts in overcoming irrational beliefs, negative feelings and attitudes, and the negative consequences that may result.

Designed for use in the classroom or in small-group settings. This revision is packed with 105 creative and easy-to-do activities. The activities include games, stories, role plays, written exercises, brainstorming and art activities. Each activity is identified by grade level and categorised into one of five important topic areas: Self-Acceptance; Feelings; Beliefs and Behaviour; Problem Solving and Decision Making; and Interpersonal Relationships.

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Table of Contents

Grades 7-8

Self-Acceptance

1. I Dare You
2. Circles of Self
3. Who Counts?
4. Who’s in Charge?
5. I Want, I Need
6. I’m Not What I Do
7. Accept Yourself!

Feelings

1. Who’s Responsible for Feelings?
2. Talk to Yourself
3. I Can, I Can’t
4. Avoiding Anger
5. Chain Reactions
6. The ABC’s
7. Emotional Overload

Beliefs and Behavior

1. Wants and Needs
2. What Will Happen to Me?
3. What Will Happen to Others?
4. Demand or Preference?
5. Drop the Demands
6. Challenging Irrational Beliefs
7. Facts or Assumptions?

Problem Solving/Decision Making

1. Staying Objective
2. Problems and Peer Pressure
3. What Can you Control?
4. Delaying Solutions
5. Imagining the Solution
6. Looking Long Term
7. Two Heads Are Better Than One

Interpersonal Relationships

1. Should They or Shouldn’t They?
2. How Irritating?
3. The Conflict-Belief Connection
4. Approval and Consequences
5. Stand Up for Yourself!
6. Accepting Others
7. Cliques That Click

Grades 9-10

Self-Acceptance

1. Erase the Slate
2. What’s important to Me
3. Criticism
4. You’re Great!
5. Success/Failure
6. Increase Your Successes
7. Let’s See Some Identification

Feelings

1. Payoffs
2. Reactions
3. Moods
4. Guilt and Shame
5. Worry, Fear, and Anxiety
6. Tough Emotions
7. Think, Feel, Do

Beliefs and Behavior

1. Copping Out
2. Avoidance
3. Why Cop Out?
4. Tolerating Frustration
5. Alternatives to Aggression
6. Be Assertive!
7. I’m a Believer

Problem Solving/Decision Making

1. Signs of Stress
2. What Makes It Stressful?
3. Stress Management
4. Action or Reaction
5. Solutions
6. Ripple Effects
7. Difficult Decisions, Difficult Consequences

Interpersonal Relationships

1. Mad at ‘Em
2. Dependent and Independent Relationships
3. Independent Behavior and Beliefs
4. Resolving Relationship Issues
5. Changing Relationships
6. I Want, I Demand
7. Group Norms

Grades 11-12

Self-Acceptance

1. Can’t Do, Won’t Do
2. Down and Out
3. Personal Power
4. Avoiding Put-Downs
5. Self-Worth
6. Affirm Yourself
7. I Am Who I Am

Feelings

1. Defenses
2. Owning Your Emotions
3. Thoughts and Feelings
4. Coping with Painful Feelings
5. Dealing with Depression
6. In Our Own Best Interests
7. Reduce the Intensity

Beliefs and Behavior

1. Argue with yourself
2. Control Your Impulses
3. SDB’s
4. Believing and Behaving
5. Defeat the SDB’s
6. What’s Influential?
7. Up for the Challenge

Problem Solving/Decision Making

1. Ideal Solutions
2. Not a Problem, An Opportunity
3. Put It in Perspective
4. Rational or Emotional?
5. Goals
6. How to Decide
7. Time to Decide

Interpersonal Relationships

1. Change Them?
2. Negative Feelings Towards Others
3. Self-Talk
4. Depend on Me?
5. I Can’t Live Without Him/Her
6. What’s Desirable?
7. Toxic or Nontoxic