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From a government aided School, Coimbatore, 312 students from classes 8th and 9th standards were screened for their level of mindful attention awareness (MAA) and emotional health (EH) using Case Study Schedule, Mindful Attention awareness Scale, Children's Automatic Thoughts Scale and Mental Health Risk Scale. Out of them, 66 students (59 boys and 7 girls) with Moderate and Low MAA and EH were randomly selected. They were in the age range of 12 - 17 years. As psychological intervention, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) was used. Six sessions of CBT were given to the students in two weeks, with each session lasting for one hour. After two weeks the students were reassessed for Mindful Attention Awareness, Automatic Thoughts and Mental Health Risk. Initially, 15% of the students had Low and 62% of the students had Moderate Mindful Attention Awareness;2% of the students and 14% of the students had High and Moderate Negative Automatic Thoughts and 32% of the students had High and 65% of the students had Moderate Mental Health Risk. After CBT, only 3% of them had Low and 50% of them had Moderate MAA; 2% of the students had High and only 8% of them had Moderate Negative Automatic Thoughts and only 15% and 58% of the students had High and Moderate Mental Health Risk. The differences in the MEAN of the variables, before and after CBT were statistically significant. The results also showed a negative correlation between 'Mindful Attention Awareness and Negative Automatic Thoughts' and Negative Automatic Thoughts and Mental Health Risk.