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Art therapy is an extension to talk therapy which may be helpful in the exploration of one’s feeling through visual expression in the absence of words. Check out Jessica Spence, LPC's worksheet for kids called “Feelings Heart”. The objective of this intervention is to allow children to develop vocabulary and identification of feelings to promote healthy expression of emotion. This exercise also serves as an open ended question about how the child views their world at the moment. It can also be used as an assessment tool and progress can be tracked by repeating the exercise and recording and comparing results.
This social skills book companion teaches children how to identify their feelings and emotions which is essential for being able to express feelings in appropriate ways. This resource is a speech and language book companion filled with many great activities and projects featuring The Color Monster, by Anna Llenas. Your kids will love learning about their feelings in a fun and colorful way. In this resource for purchase you will find: 1 Parent handout A bunting 6 Feeling posters with definitions A Feelings Story book with drawing and written options A monster crown craft - color and black & white 2 Different feelings check-ins Feeling sort activity with mason jar labels and 3 different types of feelings pictures (2 different clipart sets and 1 stock photo set) Action steps/activities when students are feeling "jumbled"
Looking for a fun and engaging counseling activity to use with children to help them share feelings and expand their feelings vocabulary? This engaging counseling game exposes children to 20 emotions, and each card includes a question related to a specific emotion. Children may be asked to share, act out, or dance the feeling. It encourages feelings identification and expression while also providing multiple discussion opportunities to explore child perspective. This game is best used with elementary-aged children, and it can be used for individual counseling, group counseling, or as a classroom counseling center.
Everyone needs to know how to name and express feelings. Each jar holds 365 little slips printed with, "feelings words"; gleeful, insecure, grateful, angry, cranky, courageous, hopeful, and many more. Pull a slip and act out the feeling, or invite someone else to act it out. Use as discussion starters, journaling prompts, or icebreakers for groups. Ages 8 & up, 365 slips, 3" recyclable plastic screw top jar.
The plastic Easter egg memory game is played just like the classic game Memory. To set up the game, you will need to download the free printable Plastic Easter Eggs Feelings Memory Game game board. You will also need eight medium to large size plastic Easter eggs. While playing this fun game kids are learning to look at different facial expressions and characteristics to figure out how someone is feeling. This is an important skill for kids to have in order to develop empathy for others. Now here’s the bonus. This activity also help kids work on their concentration and memory skills! For instance, while playing this plastic Easter egg feelings memory game, kids learn to pay attention to details so that they can remember where they can find specific emoji feeling faces on the game board.
Now in both printable AND digital distance learning ready format, this set of 52 feelings, thoughts, and emotions task cards and google slides journal prompts was designed as a therapeutic intervention to help counselors, educators, and parents to engage children in expressing their unique voices and stories. The open-ended nature of the sentence completion prompts encourage children to identify and process whatever they may experiencing, feeling and thinking in their lives, be it changes within the family, grief, fears, trauma, anger, goals, and/or celebrations.
When we learn to recognize the fight/flight/freeze response, we then have the ability to respond to it in more helpful ways. In this video Therapy in a Nutshell's teaches how to turn off the fight/flight/freeze response, as well specific strategies to turn off anxiety, stress, tension, and anger.
This award-winning prequel to the blockbuster hit, Have You Filled a Bucket Today?, is the perfect gift for anyone with little ones they love. When children have their buckets filled and learn how they can fill other people’s buckets too, they understand how special, valuable, and capable they are. The Bucket Fillosophy is a proven concept that helps all ages grow in kindness, self-control, resilience, and forgiveness, all leading to a happier life! Bucket Fillers with its imprint, Bucket Fillosophy, is dedicated to teaching the three bucketfilling rules that lead to greater happiness: 1) Be a bucket filler. Be kind. 2) Do your best not to dip. Don’t be mean. 3) Use your lid. Protect your bucket and the buckets of others. More than a dozen bucketfilling books for all ages have been published in multiple languages with more than three million copies sold. Thousands of schools around the world use bucket filling as a main component of their character development program. Besides teaching the bucketfilling concept, we’re committed to donating 50% of all proceeds annually to select non-profit organizations that serve children and families.
Participating in peer support is often a crucial element to healing and recovery from Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors. There is nothing like being able to share with others who understand what you are going through. The TLC Foundation provides a directory of support groups both in the US and International.
The TLC Foundation for BFRBs maintains this directory of therapists who have demonstrated experience and/or training in evidence-based treatment for trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder), dermatillomania (excoriation or skin picking disorder), onychophagia (nail biting) and related issues.
Search for BFRB-friendly salons, cosmetologists, behavioral health coaches, awareness products, and educational resources.
Find A Therapist is an online resource connecting licensed therapists with potential clients. We use an innovative model to help you build your practice with cost-effectiveness in mind.
What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is a practice that helps us to focus on the present, rather than the past or the future. Learning to be more present in the moment is a critical skill, especially in today’s fast-paced world. When we work on this practice, we can actually improve our focus, strengthen our emotional control, increase positive feelings, and bring calm to our everyday lives. It’s important to note that learning to be mindful doesn’t happen after one activity or lesson. The idea is that it is a “practice” because it is something we are always improving. Check out thepathway2success.com's mindfulness activities filled with lessons, task cards, breathe boards, and crafts centered around helping kids become more mindful. Five FREE mindfulness activities are offered to help get you started today.
Counseling teenagers can be difficult when traditional talk therapy may serve as a barrier in communication. A great deal of resistance may exist when working with teens because of their internal and external developmental transition from child to adult. In order to combat this, counselors must equip themselves with a variety of creative techniques that promote both verbal and nonverbal expression in a way that is therapeutic rather than stigmatizing. This article provides five creative and developmentally appropriate techniques for assisting counselors in increasing engagement while also allowing teenage clients to communicate their thoughts, behaviors, and feelings in a non-traditional way.
This article provides five creative and developmentally appropriate techniques for assisting counselors in increasing engagement while also allowing teenage clients to communicate their thoughts, behaviors, and feelings in a non-traditional way.
Being prepared with a strategy for helping children through those times when they are experiencing big or overwhelming emotions such as anger, frustration, jealousy or embarrassment, is one way to help both you and them to work through those emotions more effectively. It’s not about teaching our children that their emotions aren’t important or valid, or that they must be hidden or suppressed, but it is about helping them to find socially acceptable ways to express and deal with their emotions – most importantly, in ways that don’t hurt others. 5 Steps to Managing Big Emotions Printable Poster
Dr Daniel Siegel, a clinical professor of psychiatry and author of the fantastic books The Whole-Brain Child and Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation, came up with a beautifully simple way of showing the functions of the brain and what happens when we ‘flip our lids’. The hand model of the brain shows what happens when the lower parts of our brain take over (fight, flight or freeze) and our cortical, or thinking, brain becomes disconnected.
This short and sweet narrative is brightly illustrated and explains to children how they can follow instructions in 5 steps. Print and read with your child/student as part of your teaching strategy for developing this skill.
Sometimes feelings get…all tangled up. This can be confusing and sometimes we need help untangling them and sorting them all out. Enter “The Color Monster” by Anna Llenas! This book is AMAZING and bibliotherapy is such a wonderful practice that is so adaptable to provide as a therapeutic approach in all sorts of settings – office, in home, at school, and of course Tele-Play! When I am reading this with young people after I will pause, ask them what they noticed, and most of the time go into a Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy activity about feeling identification and levels! I have included a free download of these worksheets HERE!
Learning to Learn.biz provides a list of free education games including Cognitive Games, General Education Games, Reading/Writing/Math games.
