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Stress Cups Behaviour Worksheets: find out what's filling your child's cup, and what empties it

Outbursts, irritability and meltdowns often happen when a child's stress cup is full. These worksheets help you spot what's filling it and what helps empty it, so you can make a clear plan that tackles the cause of the behaviour.

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Stress cups diagram from the free Stress Cups Behaviour Worksheets from They Are The Future

What's inside

A simple explanation of the stress cup, with an illustrated example of everyday cup fillers like friendship worries, homework and poor sleep
A summary sheet to list your child's cup fillers and cup emptiers
A planning page to decide exactly which fillers to reduce and which emptiers to add

Dr Lucy Russell, child clinical psychologist

From me

I'm Dr Lucy Russell, a child clinical psychologist with over 20 years of clinical experience. I've used the stress cup with families in clinic for years.

"The cup technique is simple but really effective in seeing how it can be used to make simple changes to help my children."Parent, End Emotional Outbursts course