ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the importance of students learning how to change their own behaviours by being able to control their thought patterns. The resources within the chapter are clearly drawn from cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). This approach provides individuals with a way of talking about themselves, their world and people who inhabit it, so that they are more able to understand how what they do affects both their thoughts and feelings and vice versa. Basically the CBT approach breaks overwhelming problems into smaller parts; this allows the student to see how they are connected and how they affect the individual. Information sheet can be presented to the students as a whole group with the facilitator discussing each section in turn. One of the most helpful interventions for developing new and more positive belief systems, and for challenging negative automatic thoughts, is to test the evidence. Students can engage in the following questioning process.
