# THOUGHT TRAPS GAME Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) High School Counseling SEL **Price:** $4.35 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** year10, year11, year12, year7, year8, year9 **Subjects:** otherSubject ## Description (seller-submitted) Are you looking for an engaging Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) game that teaches students to recognize mind traps, thinking errors, and unhelpful thinking patterns while strengthening critical thinking and social-emotional learning (SEL) skills? Our Mind Trap Detectives is our interactive digital PowerPoint activity for upper elementary and middle school students that uses detective-themed challenges, real-life scenarios, and meaningful discussion to help students identify cognitive distortions, question unhelpful thoughts, develop more balanced thinking, improve emotional regulation, and make healthier choices across school, home, and social situations. Using a fun detective theme, students become "thought detectives" as they investigate the clues behind everyday situations. Rather than automatically believing every thought that pops into their mind, students learn how to gather evidence, question assumptions, recognize common thinking traps, and rewrite unhelpful thoughts into more realistic and helpful ones. Through guided discussion and critical thinking, students strengthen emotional regulation, self-awareness, resilience, and responsible decision-making in an engaging, low-pressure learning environment. GAME FEATURES: Mind Trap Detectives includes 5 engaging detective-themed categories , each with 5 discussion-based questions and increasing point values (100–500), designed to strengthen critical thinking, emotional regulation, flexible thinking, self-awareness, problem-solving, and cognitive restructuring skills. THE FIVE CATEGORIES INCLUDE: 1. MIND THE MIND TRAPS - Students learn to recognize common thinking errors, cognitive distortions, and unhelpful thought patterns that can influence emotions, behavior, and decision-making. 2. IDENTIFY THE SUSPECT - Students investigate what may be causing an unhelpful thought by examining assumptions, jumping to conclusions, negative self-talk, and other "suspects" that can distort thinking. 3. INVESTIGATE THE EVIDEN… [truncated] ## Learning Needs socialEmotionalLearning, learningDifficultyDisorder --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/f8356c7a-b043-45f0-9619-59df61aba35c Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au