Creative Coping Skills for Children: Emotional Support Through Arts and Crafts Activities Author: Bonnie Thomas | Language: English | ISBN:
B0041OTAKW | Format: PDF
Creative Coping Skills for Children: Emotional Support Through Arts and Crafts Activities Description
Everyone has different needs when it comes to coping with life's stressors, and children are no different. Some need quiet and soothing activities to calm them down, whereas others require more physical activity or intense sensory input to relax their minds and bodies. This resource comprises a collection of fun, flexible, tried-and-tested activities and make-it-yourself workbooks for parents and professionals to help a child in need of extra emotional support find the coping skills that fit them best. Each activity lists the materials required and includes clear directions for how to do it. There is something for every child: whether they are dynamic and creative or more cerebral and literal. Projects of this title include making wish fairies, dream catchers, and mandalas; managing unstructured time with activities such as creating comics, dioramas and tongue twisters; and, simple ideas for instant soothing, such as taking deep breaths, blowing bubbles, making silly faces, and playing music. "Creative Coping Skills for Children" also includes specific interventions for anxious or grieving children such as making worry dolls and memory shrines. This book is full of fun, easy, creative project ideas for parents of children aged 3-12, teachers, counselors, play therapists, social workers, and all professionals working with children.
- File Size: 4452 KB
- Print Length: 192 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1843109212
- Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub (June 30, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0041OTAKW
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #297,711 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
This book hits the perfect balance between activities parents can use for their own kids with activities professional counselors and therapists can use with their child clients. One section reminded me The Womans Comfort Book, only for children. "A Pirate's Survival Guide" really impressed me with its ability to provide children living with addiction, poverty and chaos a mental framework in which to better deal with those challenges. My favorite section was the pages and pages of boxed ideas for unstructured time that could be photocopied, cut apart and rolled up/folded to be chosen at random by a child needing something to do. The ideas were so appealing, I felt like getting up and doing them myself as they were exactly the kind of fun I would have loved when I was little, though I wouldn't have thought myself of doing them. There are plenty of ideas to help children w/ anxiety, grief, coping skills, goal setting, and transition times. In short, any parent or chld therapist will find this book to be a resource they can turn to often.
By Angela J. Bouchard
This book is a great resource for anyone working with Children in a counseling setting. The activities are easy to use and cover a wide range of topics. The kids I work with have really enjoyed participating in the activities and taking home what we work on each session.
By Children's Counselor
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