On Second Thought:
We created this program as a guide for elementary school psychologists, guidance counselors and social workers as well as parents and caregivers.
Designed & Customized for Key Target Audiences
On Second Thought: From Iffy to Witty Thoughts is an interactive learning tool to help kids recognize that their thoughts are powerful. We created this program as a guide for:
- Elementary School Psychologists
- Guidance Counselors
- Social Workers
- Mental Health Professionals & Caregivers
- Parents & Kids
CB Principles Explained
Building Awareness and Positive Thinking Habits
- Cognitive behavioral principles presented in a way that children can understand
- Uses idioms to recognize cognitive distortions as well as alternative thoughts and how they make us feel to uses idioms to recognize unhelpful thoughts (iffy) and how to replace them with more helpful ones (witty)
- Explains how our thoughts influence our feelings and behaviors
- Challenging and engaging activities in each lesson
- Real life situations are explored
- Colorful and whimsical illustrations
- Fun, creative and interactive
- Suitable for individuals, groups, families, classrooms, clinics
- A powerful and flexible program facilitators can adapt to a variety of audiences
Program Benefits
Interactive activities help children become aware that their first thought may not be the best choice
You have about thousands of negative thoughts a day and your child does too! Our interactive activities help children become aware that their first thought may not be the best choice. We use colorful and comically illustrated idioms to reflect real life situations and stories and the thoughts and feeling that arise from them.
We teach children basic principles of thought and how they think affects how they feel, how they act — and what happens as the end result.
We use colorful and comically illustrated idioms to reflect real life situations and stories.
Designed & Customized for Key Target Audiences
On Second Thought (OST) is a computerized cognitive behavioral program intended to teach the core principles of CBT to upper elementary school children. OST was originally developed to be delivered on a universal level with prevention aims such as to:
- Raise thought awareness
- Develop a better understanding of the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviors
- Understanding and naming emotions
- Changing unwanted emotions
- Reducing vulnerability of the unwanted emotions
- Reducing vulnerability of the mind
- Managing extreme emotions
Research applying the OST program to targeted areas of concern (ie. anxiety and anger), have recently been conducted, lending itself to additional aims in the area of treatment:
- A reduction in anxiety
- A reduction in anger
- To decrease maladaptive behaviors while increasing healthy ways of self-regulation
- A reduction in automatic negative thoughts
- An improvement in adaptive skills
- An improvement in interpersonal relationships
- An improvement in problem solving
- An improvement in academic achievement
Building Awareness and Positive Thinking Habits
According to the National Science Foundation, we have around 12-50,000 thoughts a day of which approximately 80% are negative. Our interactive activities help children become aware that their first thought may not be the best choice. We use colorful and comically illustrated idioms to reflect real life situations and stories and the thoughts and feelings that arise from them.
We teach children basic principles of thought and to realize that how they think affects how they feel, behave and what happens to them.
We use colorful and comically illustrated idioms to reflect real life situations and stories.
Interactive activities help children become aware that their first thought may not be the best choice
- Cognitive behavioral principles presented in a way that children can understand
- Uses idioms to recognize cognitive distortions as well as alternative thoughts
- Explains how our thoughts influence our feelings and behaviors
- Challenging and engaging activities in each lesson
- Real life situations are explored
- Colorful and whimsical illustrations
- Fun, creative and interactive
- Suitable for individuals, groups, families, classrooms, clinics
- A powerful and flexible program facilitators can adapt to a variety of audiences
2 Program Components = 2 Great Ways to Learn!
Mobile App
The companion mobile app for smartphones and tablets keeps the learning going — at home, in the car, in class or in a clinical setting. The full featured app contains interactive skill exercises and games that further instill the program concepts in the setting that works for you.
Desktop/Laptop Program
The “On Second Thought: from Iffy to Witty Thoughts” desktop/laptop program includes fun and interactive activities to support the key program concepts and puts these concepts into real-life situations that kids can understand.