Children

Children learn best through play and we’ve kept this in mind while designing these original therapeutic activities for children, including worksheets, stories, and therapy games. Print these tools out for use in the home or classroom or use them in a counseling session.

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Resolving Conflicts and Anger

This worksheet can help people think about others who make them angry and positive things that can be done to deal with these feelings.

Just Scribble

This worksheet can be used for two purposes: to help people relax when anxious or stressed and to help people think about their feelings. PDF (1116, relaxation, insight)

Write a Letter to Your Panic Attack

This worksheet can help people see that Panic Attacks are not inevitable. The exercise asks people to write a letter to their Panic Attack, helping them see that “they are not the problem, the Panic Attacks are the problem.” PDF (Narrative Therapy, 1015)

Give Yourself A Compliment

This simple technique asks people to think about something positive they did each day and give themselves a compliment. Recommended for anyone going through a difficult time, but particularly for people who are anxious or depressed. A positive attitude is an important part of good mental health. (quick, anxiety, depression, resilience, 1015)

Taming Your Fear Monster

This worksheet is designed to help children recognize and talk about their fears and develop strategies to overcome them. Type: PDF 3pp. (CBT, 0915)

Positive Discipline Workbook

Written by Mary Gosche at the University of Missouri Extension, this workbook is designed to teach parents the principles of positive discipline. The workbook can be used in parenting classes or as homework with individual parents. (0815)

Create a Positive Self-Portrait

This simple art therapy technique can help people focus on their positive qualities and how these qualities are visible to others. (art therapy, 0815).

Draw a Picture of Your Family

This classic projective technique asks a person to “draw a picture of your family doing something.” Besides using it for assessment, you can also use it to start a conversation about the client’s perceived role in the family, feelings about other family members, relationship to other family members, and so on. (assessment, family therapy, relationships, art therapy, quick, 0814)

Create a Mandala

This simple art therapy exercise can help people get in touch with the feelings and can be used with clients to start a conversation about their self-image. Many therapists use this activity as part of a healing process. (art therapy, 0815)

Be a Superhero

This worksheet encourages people to think about the super powers they would like to have and how they would use them. (Art Therapy, Quick, 0815)