1. CBT & Mental Health Year 10 Life Science

2. Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Shakespeare

3. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy  The way we think affects the way we feel which affects what we do  Can we control all events in our lives?  What can we control?

4. What can we control?  How we think about situations & consequently  How we feel about situations and what we do about them as a result

7. Unhelpful thinking styles  These can lead to us misinterpreting situations and talking very unproductively to ourselves  We can challenge unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more helpful thoughts

8. Common thinking errors

9. All or Nothing Thinking

10. Over-generalisation

11. Mind Reading

12. Fortune Telling

13. Magnification

14. Minimisation

15. Catastrophising

16. CBT strategies  When we find ourselves thinking in any one of these 7 ways, we need to tell ourselves to stop and practise some thinking strategies that will allow us to challenge these unhelpful ways of thinking  E.g. What’s the evidence I won’t do well on the test? Have I got a crystal ball?

17. Problem Solving

18. Addressing Core Beliefs

19. Ask away!