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This worksheet from Therapistaid.com provides ways to become aware and identify anger triggers and warning signs and provides detailed information on implementing various anger management strategies.
Use this paper fortune teller craft to teach and practice coping strategies, which is a critical social emotional skill. Kids and young adults will identify their top coping strategies and write them on the paper fortune teller to practice and refer to, as needed. This craft includes a list of 100 unique coping strategies for kids and young adults to choose from. A space is included for kids and young adults to write in their own individualized strategies. Students can create their own coping strategies crafts or choose from any five pre-made fortune tellers.
This six-page bundle that teaches children about feeling embarrassed and how to cope with it. Fillable PDF format can be used with remote learning or teletherapy.
Core Attachment Therapy© is very respectful to the child and very empowering to the parents. It allows families of adoption a way to bond at the core level which has proven over and over to move children through their emotional issues and needs to then be comforted by the very people they need-their new parents. When this moment of the adopted child letting their new parents “in” occurs, it is so heartwarming and it does transform the heart of the adopted child.
Counselor Keri is a mental health counselor turned school counselor and curriculum writer hoping to spark social, emotional, and academic growth! This school counseling blog will deliver fresh ideas to help you deliver your best program yet! Counselor Keri offers group guidance resources and classroom guidance resources, digital counseling activities, counseling games and more!
While there are many issues to consider when conducting online therapy, one of the most important is how to build and maintain a safe and positive therapeutic rapport. This can be particularly challenging when therapist and child are in different physical locations and there is a screen separating them. This article by Liana Lowenstein, MSW outlines several “online-friendly” interventions to facilitate rapport-building with children.
Creative Play Therapy Tele-Play Therapy private Facebook group creates a space for Play Therapists to come together to share their wealth of knowledge, experience and creativity. The focus of this page is on sharing resources and interventions and not on case consultation.
This unique resource is now in an extensively revised second edition with more than 90% new material and an expanded conceptual framework. Filled with rich case illustrations, the book explores how children's cultural identities—as well as experiences of marginalization—shape the challenges they bring to therapy and the ways they express themselves. Expert practitioners guide therapists to build competence for working across different dimensions of diversity, including race and ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability. Purchasers get access to a companion website featuring chapters from the first edition on play therapy with major cultural groups: African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. New to This Edition Virtually a new book; incorporates a broader definition of culture and an increased social justice focus. Chapters on working with children of color, LGBT children and adolescents, undocumented families, and Deaf children. Chapter on dismantling white privilege in the play therapy office. Chapters on school bullying and on how technology is transforming play, including tips for conducting tele-play therapy.
Dan Hughes, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with a limited practice in South Portland, Maine. He founded and developed Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), the treatment of children who have experienced abuse and neglect and who demonstrate ongoing problems related to attachment and trauma. This treatment occurs in a family setting and the treatment model has expanded to become a general model of family treatment. He has spent over 40 years helping children and youth reach their full potential and reconnect with others in their lives. Dan has conducted seminars, workshops, spoken at conferences and guest lectured throughout the US, Europe, Canada, and Australia over the past 18 years. He is also engaged in extensive training and supervision in the certification of therapists in his treatment model, along with ongoing consultation to various agencies and professionals. He is a member of the American Psychological Association. He is also president of the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute (DDPI) which is responsible for the certification of professionals in DDP. Information about DDPI can be found on their website, www.ddpnetwork.org. Dan has authored many books including Attachment-Focused Parenting (2009), Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook (2011) and, with Jon Baylin, Brain-Based Parenting (2012) and The Neurobiology of Attachment-Focused Therapy (2016). He has also written or been featured in many articles.
Dark, Bad Day…Go Away is the first hard cover, illustrated book for children that motivates, prepares and guides children to use EMDR therapy. It is now available in Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese. Dark, Bad Day…Go Away is a storybook for EMDR trained clinicians that: -Explains trauma and EMDR therapy in terms children (and adults) can understand. -Motivates children to embrace trauma using EMDR therapy. -Prepares children for EMDR trauma reprocessing so the likelihood of children ending EMDR therapy prematurely is reduced. -Makes EMDR therapy accessible to children by showing what EMDR therapy is, how it works, and how it can be helpful. The second edition of the Dark, Bad Day..Go Away has changes such as: -The inclusion of the butterfly hug and the EMDR puppet team. -Text changes that convey the notion of integration and the “brain sorting things out” during EMDR processing. -REM sleep cycle.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) focuses on teaching people strategies to help them live their best and most productive life. DBT is often used to help people with depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorders, addictions, eating disorder, and PTSD.
A child therapist's favorite ways to help kids learn to take a deep breath, including quick explanations and videos of deep breathing techniques. This write-up features deep Breathing using props, shapes, your imagination numbers and your body as well as animal-like breathing.
The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) is a leading national organization focusing on mood disorders including depression and bipolar disorder, which affect over 21 million Americans, account for over 50% of the nation’s suicides every year, and cost $23 billion in lost workdays and other workplace losses. DBSA offers peer-based, wellness-oriented support and empowering services and resources available when people need them, where they need them, and how they need to receive them—online 24/7, in local support groups, in audio and video casts, or in printed materials distributed by DBSA, our chapters, and mental health care facilities across America. Through our extensive online and print resources and our nearly 600 support groups and more than 200 chapters, DBSA reaches millions of people each year with in-person and online peer support; current, readily understandable information about depression and bipolar disorder; and empowering tools focused on an integrated approach to wellness.
Filled with dozens of new interventions, this treatment manual is a delightful addition to the Digging for Buried Treasure series. Clinicians will find play therapy techniques that address the treatment of traumatized children as well as more skill building exercises for children with impulse control problems and social skill deficits. With a section specific to cognitive behavioral play therapy techniques, the book also offers specific strategies for the goal setting process as well as the termination phase of treatment. If you liked the original, you’ll love Digging 2!
This compendium of innovative treatment techniques is useful for children with a multitude of problems. The techniques are arranged according to treatment focus with categories including feelings expression and verbalization, self-esteem, anger management, social skills, and impulse control strategies. Each intervention comes with step-by-step directions as well as treatment goals, age ranges and appropriate populations while placing the technique along a treatment continuum. Even processing questions and therapeutic homework are included to make this an easy-to-read, invaluable reference for clinicians.
Digital Parenting Coach.com helps parents get equipped with the parenting skills and tools to confidently help their children embrace the digital world while staying safe and behaving responsibly. Choose what you need - when you need it - and rest assured that all the strategies, best practices and resources are age-adapted, practical and easy to implement.Select the age-range for your child and purchase a parenting course that explores the issues, benefits and risks related to that age-range, followed by strategies and solution to guide you as a digital parent.
Is your child a sore loser? Does he or she scream or get angry when losing?Disappointment is a natural emotion we all experience. While it never feels good, it's not an emotion to avoid. Children with no experience solving life’s smaller setbacks have a much harder time when they’re faced with larger ones. When we teach our children to see stumbling blocks as opportunities to improve and grow, we increase their mental toughness. Handling disappointment includes being a good sport.Good sportsmanship is one of the life lessons that children can learn while young.In this story, Disappointed Ninja becomes upset when they lose, but learns how to display good sportsmanship skills:If you lose, don't quit or make up excuses.Learn from mistakes and try again.Always give your best.If someone else makes a mistake, remain encouraging and avoid criticizing.Show respect for yourself, your team, and the opponent.Life is tough, but so are you!The new children's book series, Ninja Life Hacks, was developed to help children learn valuable life skills. Fun, pint-size characters in comedic books easy enough for young readers, yet witty enough for adults.The Ninja Life Hacks book series is geared to kids 3-11. Perfect for boys, girls, early readers, primary school students, or toddlers. Excellent resource for counselors, parents, and teachers alike.
what we know about the brain of a child in the middle of a true meltdown is that their emotional brain has taken over and they are in fight or flight mode. They cannot be reasoned with and they certainly cannot be asked to use the logical part of their brain. Telling this child to take a deep breath or to consider consequences will only set them off further. What works is to speak to them with a calm voice and to make them feel safe. Once they have calmed down it is possible to process what they could have done differently. The problem with this information is that it leaves out an important distinction between what to do if your child is having a true meltdown vs. what to do when your child is using manipulation. The difference between meltdown and manipulation needs to be clearly defined. In this article Constructive Parenting.com discusses the distinction between these two behaviors and provides tips on how to manage them.
The Diverse BookFinder is a comprehensive collection of children's picture books featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC). We've cataloged and analyzed trade picture books fitting this criteria, published since 2002, to surface and create: 1) A UNIQUE CIRCULATING COLLECTION: We strive to collect all depictions of BIPOC characters in trade picture books published since 2002. Anyone can check these books out at any time through Interlibrary Loan. 2) A SEARCH TOOL: We offer a first-of-its-kind online, searchable database of our collection that makes it easier for everyone to locate and explore children's picture books featuring BIPOC characters. 3) A SOURCE OF CRITICAL DATA: We provide real-time data on who (which BIPOC characters) is depicted in trade picture books, and how (what messages these stories send), to enable deeper conversation and change.
Wooden Peg Dolls can be painted to meet your needs or left plain for versatility in the play room (3 pcs. per set, 6 sets per unit) Large, 4"; medium, 3 1/2"; small, 1 1/4".