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The Scales of Change

Sometimes you need to weigh up the benefits ordisadvantages of trying to do something new.

Write down what you are thinking about doing at the top of the scales. Write down on one side of the scales all the positive reasons�benefits and on the other side all the negative reasons�disadvantages.

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A Clinician’s Guide to Think Good – Feel Good: Using CBT with children and young people by Paul Stallard. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.