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Play Interventions for Anger

This is a round-up of interventions I found online for anger. You will find craft activities, scripts, toys, games, and videos to help...

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Creative Intervention Round-Up: Cheap and Easy

I have found some fantastic, creative ideas lately and wanted to share them. These are creative and all could be done with little cost. I...

Andy's Anger Explosions: A Book/Game Combo

Andy’s Anger Eruptions is a story and game about a boy with explosive anger. He flies off the handle quickly, then feels out of control...

Movie Reels of the Mind: A Book and Game about Visualization

Movie Reels of the Mind is a book and game that helps children use visualization to overcome fears and anxiety, to feel grounded and...

Using Play Dough to Process Emotions - Free PDF Download

I have had several parents ask about ways to help their children calm down and process emotions at home. Play dough is one of my go-to...

The Horrible Thing that Happened Game

I have been using TF-CBT to address trauma in children for years. My experience has been that some children do very well with it and are...

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I Spy Bottles to go in Coping Skill Boxes

Making I spy bottles is fun, fun, fun! The kids have loved dying the rice, choosing their trinkets to go inside, and to stare at their...

Play Dough as a Coping Skill to Process Emotions

Children process emotions in many ways, but usually best through play. It takes time to develop an emotional vocabulary and to mature to...

Coping Skill Toolbox

Last fall I helped the kids I work with make coping skill boxes. They were able to decorate them and either take them home or to their...