Addresses 'Emotional Reasoning' and 'Labeling'. Students learn to identify when their emotions are overwriting logic and how to strip away harmful labels from their self-identity.
The core lesson of the Brain Glitch series, introducing cognitive distortions as 'system glitches' and using a cooperative board game to teach students how to identify and debug them.
The final curriculum review and introduction to Core Beliefs. Students synthesize their learning to create a 'Master Patch'—a set of balanced core beliefs for long-term mental resilience.
Targets 'Catastrophizing' and 'Fortune Telling'. Students learn to stop the 'what if' spiral by assessing actual probabilities and creating contingency plans.