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Home > CBT Worksheets for Children > Fears and phobias

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Fears and phobias

This collection supports practitioners in helping children overcome fears using structured, developmentally appropriate graded exposure.

Resources include simple psychoeducation to explain fear responses and avoidance cycles, alongside exposure hierarchy templates to break fears into manageable steps and tools to plan and track progress.

Graded exposure is a core CBT technique recommended by NICE for the treatment of specific phobias in children.

Why do I get scared?

Fear and false alarms
Fear: What’s it like?

Fear: What’s it like?

Fight or flight

Fear & getting stuck
CBT worksheet for children on facing fears using graded exposure

Facing our fears

The Fear Mountain

Getting used to things

My journey to calm (Fears/phobias)
What makes me scared?

What makes me scared? (example)

What makes me scared? (blank)

My bravery journey (example)

My bravery journey (blank)

Climbing a bravery ladder

Climbing your bravery ladder

My bravery plan (example)

My bravery plan (blank)
Safety behaviours

Safety behaviours

Getting used to it – Top Tips
Parent/carer information sheet (Fear/phobia)

Parent/carer information sheet (Fear/phobia)

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