Creative Approaches for Counseling Individual Children in the School Setting Grades K-6
Diane Senn
Creative Approaches for Counseling Individual Children provides more than 100 creative activities. In individual counselling with children you need to connect with the child, gather information about the child and their needs, explore the problem, create and implement a plan together, and then assess if the plan is working.
This book will help you do this by providing you with various contact forms, referrals, feedback forms, and information gathering activities, activities to assist in understanding and dealing with problems young children typically encounter, and by providing creative activities to deal with specific problem areas of:
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Feelings
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Behaviour
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Self-Concept
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Divorce
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Friendship
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Death
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Academic Support
Some of the techniques shared in this book are:
Use of play, dialoguing, pictures, games, music, drawing, incomplete sentences, use of puppets, clay, metaphors, object lessons, worksheets, questions, role playing, role reversal, rating scales, journaling, cognitive restructuring, re-framing, checklist, behavioural contacts, storytelling, self-monitoring.
Published 2006, 223 Pages, Large Softcover Format
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