Placement in foster care can be a confusing and frightening time for a child.
Many children in foster care are dealing with not only the trauma that took place in their home of origin, but also the ordeal of being uprooted and placed in a new home. They are often separated from siblings, other family members and friends.
Placement in foster care can be a confusing and frightening time for a child.
Many children in foster care are dealing with not only the trauma that took place in their home of origin, but also the ordeal of being uprooted and placed in a new home.
This fun and easy to learn game is intended to help the counselor gently guide each child through the process of healing. Using a combination of leading questions and relaxation exercises children learn constructive ways to express their feelings and emotions regarding the event and build a tool set for ways to cope.
Play-2-Learn Go Fish Games play like classic Go Fish. There are two decks of 50 cards in each game –one for grades K-2 and the other for grades 3-5. The games differ from classic go fish in that players must answer a question before they can accept a requested card. Each game also comes with a rules sheet and facilitator guidelines.
This useful guidebook provides treatment options for the most common problems children face, including divorce, sexual or drug abuse, death, depression, and eating disorders. Each chapter focuses on o ne emotional problem from intake to treatment, complications, and long-term concerns. A must for the bookshelf of every counselor. 192-page hardcover book.
This fully reproducible handbook is chock-full of strategies designed to help children handle such challenges as parental divorce, living in a blended family, loss and grieving, food-related issues, coping with depression, having ADD/LD, and being gifted. For each key idea, there is a story, narrated in a child's voice, to illustrate the issue
Reproducible forms include: Behavioral Contracts, Values Profile, Assertiveness Training Chart, The Parent Cooperativeness Rating Scale, Joint Custody Checklist, The Children's Stress Scale, Blank Treatment Plans, a Form for Techniques in a Multi-Modal Therapy Plan, and a Play Observation Checklist. 158-page soft-cover book with CD
Bulletin Boards! Whether you enjoy doing them or you don’t, Counseling On The Wall is for you. With thirteen topics to choose from, almost all visuals ready-to-print in color, a variety of borders at your fingertips, and a lesson guide for using the completed board in classrooms or small groups, you will no longer spend hours gathering materials and thinking of appropriate topics.
