Children & Teens Worksheets
13 worksheets available. Free to browse, read, and print.
Build a Gratitude Jar: A Hands-On Activity for Kids
A creative daily practice that helps children recognize and celebrate the good things in life
Building a Behavior Support Plan
A structured approach to shaping positive behaviors in children
Effective Time-Outs: A Guide for Caregivers
Using time-outs as a calm, consistent discipline strategy
Growing Up with Parental Alcohol Use: Reflection Prompts
Guided questions for exploring the lasting effects of a caregiver's alcohol use
My Feelings Map
A sensory exploration of emotions for children
Parenting Strategies: Reinforcement and Consequences Checklist
Assess how effectively you use rewards and consequences with your child
Recognizing and Responding to Depression in Children
Essential Information for Parents and Caregivers
Setting Up a Reward-Based Behavior System
A Step-by-Step Guide to Token Economies for Children and Adolescents
Squeeze and Let Go
A child-friendly progressive muscle relaxation script
Supporting a Child Through Depression
Evidence-based strategies for caregivers
Supporting a Grieving Child
Evidence-Based Guidelines for Caregivers Navigating Loss with Children
Tracing the Messages That Shaped Your Body Image
Identifying and Evaluating External Influences
Understanding and Responding to Bullying
A guide for young people on recognizing bullying and building safety strategies
Free Children & Teens treatment manuals
Complete open-access protocols from sources like SAMHSA, the VA, WHO, and RAND that pair with the worksheets above. Each one links to the official source and states its license, free and legal to use.
mhGAP Intervention Guide
WHO's flagship clinical manual for assessing and managing mental, neurological, and substance use disorders in settings without a psychiatrist. Version 2.0 gives step-by-step assessment and management algorithms for depression, psychoses, epilepsy, child and adolescent behavioral disorders, dementia, substance use, and self-harm.
Adolescent Coping With Depression Course (CWD-A)
Clarke, Lewinsohn, and Hops' classic group CBT course for depressed adolescents: sixteen two-hour sessions covering mood monitoring, social skills, pleasant activities, relaxation, constructive thinking, communication, and negotiation, taught in a classroom-style format teens tolerate well. It is one of the most-studied adolescent depression treatments in existence and the direct ancestor of many school and clinic programs in use today.
SSET School Trauma Program
A ten-lesson, group-format program for middle-school students exposed to trauma, adapted by Jaycox, Langley, and Dean from the evidence-based CBITS intervention so that teachers and school counselors can deliver it without clinical training. The book includes a leader training section, complete lesson plans, and all student worksheets, parent letters, and screening forms.
TF-CBT Implementation Manual
An honest framing first: this is the implementation guide for TF-CBT, not the session-by-session treatment manual. That book (Cohen, Mannarino, and Deblinger's Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents) is a commercial Guilford title. What NCTSN's free guide covers is everything around the protocol: the components and evidence, preparing an agency to adopt it, training and supervision paths, maintaining fidelity, and handling comorbidity and cultural adaptation.
Psychological First Aid (PFA) Field Guide
The standard evidence-informed manual for supporting children, adults, and families in the immediate aftermath of disaster and mass violence, built around eight core actions from contact and engagement through linkage with services. Written jointly by NCTSN and the National Center for PTSD, it is the field guide most disaster mental health deployments train on.