This book provides 100+ creative activities for helping the child and the problem. In individual counseling with children, we need to connect with the child, gather information about the child and their needs, explore the problem, implement and create a plan together, and then assess if the plan is working. Various contact forms, referrals, feedback forms, and information gathering activities are included along with activities to assist in understanding and dealing with the problem. In addition, creative activities are shared to deal with specific problem areas of: Feelings Self-Concept Friendship Academic Support Behavior Divorce Death

Creative Approaches for Counseling Individual Children in the School Setting

Education & Teaching

Diane Senn

Schools & Teaching

YouthLight, Inc.

Girl bullying / relationally aggressive behavior appears to be motivated by underlying fear and insecurity. The first step to counteracting girl bullying is an awareness of the hidden causes of girl bullying. The second step is gaining an understanding that these are behaviors we don t have to accept. And the third step is sharing support and skill building for dealing with and/or reducing girl bullying behavior. She includes a section on parent workshops and handouts. This book provides a school-based approach to girl bullying that includes class lessons, small group activities and ideas for individual counseling. The class lessons include stories, activities, suggestions and reproducible student worksheets. These strategies are not just for girls and can include the entire class. The group approach includes surveys, stories, strategies, student assessments, and group activities. The individual counseling section includes situation cards, activities, student worksheets, and a simple problem solving model. Paperback

Bullying in the Girl's World: A School-Wide Approach to Girl Bullying (Grades 3-8)

This book provides activities that can be used as part of a school counseling program, can be used by other school personnel or by any helping professional with the intent to help our children maximize their potential in the areas of living (personal/social development), learning (academic development), and working (career development). The activities are divided into the three domains of our ASCA (American School Counselor Association) National Standards for Students: Activities for LIVING (personal/social development) 
<ul>
<li> Feelings </li>
<li> Self-Concept </li>
<li> Friendship </li>
<li> Problem-Solving </li>
<li> Healthy Choices </li>
<li> Character </li>
<li> Bully Prevention</li>
</ul> Activities for LEARNING (academic development) <ul>
<li> Focusing </li>
<li> Organization </li>
<li> Study Tips </li>
<li> Homework </li>
<li> Test Taking Tips </li>
<li> Positive Attitude</li>
</ul> Activities for THEWORLDOFWORK (career development) <ul>
<li> Career Awareness </li>
<li> Career Village (exploring the 16 Career Clusters)</li>
</ul>
 The activities can be utilized in class lessons, with individuals, in small group counseling, and in some cases can be shared through school-wide programs.

Spectacular Guidance Activities for Kids

This book provides 60 brief but power-packed activities that will capture students' attention, mix in some fun, and most important, provide opportunities for learning. The seven sections in this book offer different approaches to engage your students. A wide range of topics are covered across the three domains of personal/social, academic, and career development and can be used in a variety of settings: class lessons, individual counseling, small groups, and school-wide.

Guidance Mini-Lessons

Children's Books

This book begins with the illustrated story of The Great Treasure Hunt in which Brian and Lindsay begin an adventure following clues on an old treasure map that lead them through eight Challenge Experiences. From these Challenge Experiences the readers are encouraged to figure out the following Mystery Words, Success Skills, on the incomplete Map Key. Topics include: teamwork, respect, empathy, anger management, self-discipline, uniqueness, responsibility, encountering problems and perservering.

The Treasure

It is critically important that children learn fundamental social skills during their elementary school years. This book provides a unique set of lessons for helping children learn skills and insights they need for creating and maintaining positive relationships with others. Direct teaching and reinforcement of these lessons helps provide children with information and practice that will help bolster their positive social-emotional development. This resource is targeted toward elementary school ages. However, the basic information provided can be used for younger and older students too.

First Steps to Social Success

Reference

Puzzle Pieces-classroom Guidance Connection

Gwen Sitsch

Small Group Counseling for Children provides a unique approach to stimulate interaction and learning on the topics of ANGER MANAGEMENT, FRIENDSHIP, SELF-CONCEPT, and SCHOOL SUCCESS SKILLS. This resource includes a needs assessment (parent, teacher, and student) for each topic to help determine the specific needs of the group. In addition, it gives a choice of 15+ skill building group session activities for each topic with a correlation chart to the needs assessment. It provides parent/teacher letters and handouts to encourage reinforcement of the skills presented. And that's not all! Group energizers and icebreakers, group forms and outlines, optional service learning assignments for students, and a post assessment for each group are added bonuses! This small group program is a comprehensive, creative new approach to small group counseling that strives for efficient and effective use of counseling.

Small Group Counseling, Grades 2-5 with CD

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