Why Did You Die?
Thousands of children each year experience the death of a loved one before they reach the age of 18, and some 10 to 15 percent of them experience mental health problems, such as depression, as a result. One study found that childhood grief is correlated with low grades, sleep problems, moodiness, behavior problems, and an inability to concentrate. When a loved one dies, children are faced with
a kaleidoscope of feelings, thoughts, myths, and questions. This workbook offers tools that you canuse to help a grieving child in your life deal with these feelings.The first section of Why Did You Die? is for adults. It describes a child's grief process and what can be expected as it progresses. The latter section includes activities you can do with a grieving child. Using an art therapy approach, the activities guide the child through the issues he or she must eventually confront. Different activities help the child express difficult feelings, separate myths from facts, and understand the finality of death. This direct yet non-threatening, secular approach will help children learn, grow, and thrive (amazon.com).
a kaleidoscope of feelings, thoughts, myths, and questions. This workbook offers tools that you canuse to help a grieving child in your life deal with these feelings.The first section of Why Did You Die? is for adults. It describes a child's grief process and what can be expected as it progresses. The latter section includes activities you can do with a grieving child. Using an art therapy approach, the activities guide the child through the issues he or she must eventually confront. Different activities help the child express difficult feelings, separate myths from facts, and understand the finality of death. This direct yet non-threatening, secular approach will help children learn, grow, and thrive (amazon.com).
Creative Interventions for Children of Divorce
This is an innovative collection of therapeutic games, art techniques, and stories to help children of divorce express feelings, deal with loyalty binds, disengage from parental conflict, address anger and self-blame, and learn coping strategies. It includes a theoretical overview for practitioners, a sample treatment plan, and a reproducible handout to give parents. It also
contains a ten-week curriculum that can be used in therapy or support groups. It is a much needed compilation for counsellors, therapists, and group facilitators (amazon.com).
contains a ten-week curriculum that can be used in therapy or support groups. It is a much needed compilation for counsellors, therapists, and group facilitators (amazon.com).
Creative Interventions for Bereaved Children
This is a uniquely creative compilation of activities to help bereaved children express feelings of grief, diffuse traumatic reminders, address self-blame, commemorate the deceased, and learn coping strategies. It includes special activities for children dealing with the suicide or murder of a loved one. It covers a theoretical overview for practitioners, tips for caregivers and schools, and a ten-week curriculum for use in therapy or support groups. It is a must-have for grief counsellors, group facilitators, and school personnel (amazon.com).
Creative Interventions For Troubled Children and Youth
This best-selling collection is filled with creative assessment and treatment interventions to help clients identify feelings, learn coping strategies, enhance social skills, and elevate self-esteem. A wealth of practical tools for
children aged 4-16 in individual, group, and family counselling (amazon.com).
children aged 4-16 in individual, group, and family counselling (amazon.com).
Helping Teens Work Through Grief
The second edition of Helping Teens Work Through Griefprovides a more complete and updated manual for facilitators of teen grief groups. It includes additional background information about developmental aspects of teens, the process of grief, aspects of trauma and its effects on teens, the value of a group, determining the group-appropriateness of particular teens, and parental involvement. The many details involved with beginning a group - publicity, interviews, registration, structure, closure, evaluation, and follow-up - are listed (amazon.com).
A Volcano In My Tummy: Helping Children To Handle Anger
A Volcano in My Tummy presents a clear and effective approach to helping children and adults alike understand and deal constructively with children's anger. The book offers engaging, well-organized activities which help to overcome the fear of children's anger which many adult care-givers experience, and distinguishes between anger the feeling, and violence the behavior. Primarily created for ages 6 to thirteen, it is accessible for use in class or at home (amazon.com).
Seeing Red: An Anger Management And Peacemaking Curriculum For Kids
Seeing Red is a curriculum designed to help elementary and middle-school aged students better understand their anger so they can make healthy and successful choices and build strong relationships. Overall it aims for participants to realize that they can control their behavior and develop practical skills and strategies to manage their feelings which, in turn, will increase their
self-esteem. These objectives are achieved through role playing common situations, identifying associated feelings, doing problem solving, recognizing negative behaviors, and anticipating consequences. Uniquely designed for small
groups of willing participants, Seeing Red enables participants to learn from one another and empower each other. Each session includes objectives for that particular lesson, a list of supplies needed for its activities, a description of tasks to do before the lesson, background notes to the leader, a warm-up activity at the start, an explanation of the various learning activities, and a closing activity (amazon.com).
self-esteem. These objectives are achieved through role playing common situations, identifying associated feelings, doing problem solving, recognizing negative behaviors, and anticipating consequences. Uniquely designed for small
groups of willing participants, Seeing Red enables participants to learn from one another and empower each other. Each session includes objectives for that particular lesson, a list of supplies needed for its activities, a description of tasks to do before the lesson, background notes to the leader, a warm-up activity at the start, an explanation of the various learning activities, and a closing activity (amazon.com).
Mending Hearts When a School Grieves
Grief is a part of life, though something we would like to avoid. Like all societal issues, grief eventually comes to school. What do we do when a school is grief stricken? This book is written to help school counsellors, teachers and administrators know how to respond when grief affects a school (amazon.com).
Helping Kids Heal: 75 Activities to Help Children Recover from Trauma and Loss
Ages 6 - 12. This unique volume contains 75 tried-and-true reproducible activities to help children after an acutely traumatic event. Following the natural sequence of recovery, the book begins with relaxation activities and ends with activities that strengthen a child's capacity to give back to others. Proven therapeutic principles are woven throughout the book, and anecdotes, tips and vignettes bring each activity to life (amazon.com).
No Kidding About Bullying
Based on a nationwide survey of more than 2,000 students and their teachers, No Kidding About Bullying gives educators and youth leaders a diverse range of activities they can use to help kids in grades 3 - 6 build empathy, manage anger, and work out conflicts. Featuring 125 mini-lessons that may be completed in 20 minutes or less, the book is a flexible resource that can be used as a stand-alone curriculum or complement anti-bullying and character education programs already in place. Student activities - including games, role plays, group discussions, art projects, and language arts exercises - affirm the importance of respect, listening, and kind actions at school. Kids learn skills they can use to calm down and talk out problems when strong emotions or conflicts threaten to disrupt the peace (amazon.com).
How To Stop Bullying and Social Aggression
Educators have come to recognize the long-term negative impact that bullying can have on children and the need to proactively teach acceptable behaviors for both in school and out. This user-friendly resource provides K–6 teachers, school administrators, and counselors with fun, interactive lessons and activities that support students’ safety and well-being, promote healthy
social-emotional development, and improve academic achievement. Using role plays and sample scripts that can be adapted to specific situations, the authors illustrate how to teach critical concepts and behaviors, including how to stand up to a bully and how to stop another student from bullying. In clear, jargon-free language, this research-based book helps school districts meet the curriculum requirements of recently enacted bullying laws by fostering positive youth development around the concepts of respect, conflict resolution, and interpersonal relationships.
How to Stop Bullying and Social Aggression helps educators engage bullies, victims, and bystanders at their own level and t t teach healthy behaviors to create safe schools (amazon.com).
social-emotional development, and improve academic achievement. Using role plays and sample scripts that can be adapted to specific situations, the authors illustrate how to teach critical concepts and behaviors, including how to stand up to a bully and how to stop another student from bullying. In clear, jargon-free language, this research-based book helps school districts meet the curriculum requirements of recently enacted bullying laws by fostering positive youth development around the concepts of respect, conflict resolution, and interpersonal relationships.
How to Stop Bullying and Social Aggression helps educators engage bullies, victims, and bystanders at their own level and t t teach healthy behaviors to create safe schools (amazon.com).
When Death Happens- Parent Guides
An easy and effective way to help equip parents in providing emotional support for their child. These attractive and effective pamphlets include over twenty helpful hints for parents with an easy to follow checklist and a list of
other resources. 25 Guides per pack (bouldenpublishing.com).
other resources. 25 Guides per pack (bouldenpublishing.com).
How to be Angry: An Assertive Anger Expression Group Guide for Kids and Teens
Children often struggle to cope with anger, and their angry feelings can boil over into aggression and destructive behaviour. This resource provides a 15-session group program designed to teach children and adolescents valuable skills for anger management, effective anger expression and assertive communication. Each detailed session provides step-by-step guidelines for carrying out the lesson plans, group activities and discussions. Suitable for use with children and teenagers aged 5-18, it will help them to overcome self-destructive passive, aggressive, and passive-aggressive patterns of behaviour. Instead of teaching children not to be angry, this engaging resource teaches them how to be angry effectively and constructively. It will be of great use to professionals working with children and teenagers in school and child care settings, counselors, social workers, psychologists and parents (Amazon.ca).