Traditionally, CBT has been highly effective in helping to treat anxiety and depression. However, several top psychologists have recently argued that teaching CBT to young people can act as a preventive measure to such conditions, whilst also enhancing critical thinking skills. By learning techniques to spot your distorted thoughts, you can identify catastrophising, mind-reading, labelling, blaming, and black-and-white thinking. Essentially, you learn to think critically, problem solve and, in a sense, call yourself out when your mind is distorting the truth or making misinformed assumptions ..read more

Our homes were our first classroom, where we learnt to walk and talk, and where we later practiced reading and writing. Studies have provided concrete evidence that the home learning environment is vital in children’s academic and social development. However, whilst most of us understand the importance of creating a supportive home learning environment, the actual practice of that can be difficult. This is even more apparent with challenging subjects, or as in this case, with skillsets that are notoriously hard to teach. Critical thinking and resilience are two of the most important skills stu ..read more

,Cambridge University conducted a survey that found that whilst 93% of teachers agreed that it’s imperative to develop students’ critical thinking skills, only 21% felt that they have all the materials they need to develop these skills. As critical thinking quickly becomes one of the most necessary assets for school leavers, we look at why it is so important and how we can help students become better critical thinkers. A student with good critical thinking skills is someone who can see both sides of an issue and be open to new evidence that challenges their ideas. They also need to be emotiona ..read more

What is CBT? Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a highly used psychological intervention which is based on the premise that our thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and behaviours are all interlinked and create a bigger picture. When a person is encountering difficulty, such as stress, anxiety and depression, CBT aims to assess whether certain aspects, for example the thoughts and behaviours, are creating a problematic bigger picture (what CBT therapists often refer to as ‘the vicious cycle’). CBT allows a person to break this picture down into these different aspects to consider how a ..read more