EBSA Workbook School Thoughts and Feelings – Item 571

EBSA workbook school thoughts and feelings

EBSA is Emotionally based school avoidance. Pupils who struggle to come to school or are non attenders. This might have an emotional cause or a mental health cause. We also have EBSA Workbook School difficulties and EBSA Workbook Coping with school worries on the website.

This workbook is aimed at KS2 Primary Pupils. Age 7 to 11.

Thoughts, feelings, physical feelings and behaviours(actions). How are these linked when it comes to school?

The pupil may have negative thoughts about school which leads to difficult feelings, physical sensations and the pupil wants to avoid going to school so doesn’t go. The cycle can continue.

This workbook will help the pupil to identify their thoughts, inspect them, challenge them and change them. This will help them to have more comfortable feelings and may help them to get back into school.

Work through the workbook together. There are sheets to support such as lots of feeling words, suggestions for thoughts both positive and negative, thought challenging questions and examples of how positive and negative thoughts impact on feelings, physical sensations and behaviours.

Every activity should be easy to follow with adult support. At the end of the workbook the pupil will hopefully understand that link between their thoughts and behaviours.

Remind them that every one of those can be changed – thoughts, feelings, physical feelings and behaviours. The focus, however is on changing thoughts in this workbook.

To compliment this resource there is a diary to take away – print as many sheets as you require. I would suggest 2 weeks worth to see how they get on monitoring their thoughts and feelings then sharing those with an adult to get support.

The EBSA workbook school thoughts and feelings pack contains:

• 15 page workbook
• Thoughts and feeling journal sheet with cover