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Coping with ADHD & Heightened Emotions
Free printable exercise to use with adolescent & adult clients
People with ADHD feel both positive and negative emotions more intensely and frequently, and often for longer periods of time. With this exercise, clients can learn to respond to emotions mindfully, allowing them to better handle difficult situations.
How do we help kids cope with COVID-19 and the new normal that it brings?
FREE Coping Skills for Kids Worksheets!
Expert and Author of the Coping Skills for Kids Workbook, Janine Halloran, LMHC, walks us through simple techniques and tips to help kids cope with COVID-19 and the new normal that it brings.
Taming the Wild Things
Helping anxious kids and those trying to shield them from feelings of fear, insecurity, uncertainty, or discomfort.
Lynn Lyons, LICSW, shares how to override the demanding voice of anxiety.
5 Free Resources for Teachers
We're celebrating National Teacher Day by offering teachers FIVE of our best school-and teaching-related worksheets and videos...for FREE!
Access each resource below and feel free to share these free activities with all your teacher friends and family. #ThankATeacher
Literacy into Therapy Plan
FREE Fun with Literacy Worksheets!
Karen Thatcher – Children with learning disabilities require more exposure to a literacy rich environment and opportunities in order to begin developing a foundation for literacy.
As providers, we not only affect a child’s current development, we also have the ability to shape a child’s future academic and social success. And it doesn’t have to be hard to incorporate literacy into therapy goals, and here’s how…
CBT Tools for Resolving Anxiety in Children & Adolescents
Two FREE worksheets you can use today
Worksheets can be engaging, interactive and useful tools for clinicians — especially when working with kids. Read more to get two FREE CBT tools for exploring anxiety with the kids in your practice.
NEW Classroom Activities
Dr. Lynne Kenney recently released 2 practical programs introducing research-based activities from her most recent works Bloom Your Room and 70 Play Activities To Enhance Thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning and Behavior. Discover simple activities to enhance competence, confidence, communication and collaboration. Get ahead of misbehavior by teaching with the brain in mind!
How To: Progressive Muscle Relaxation for Self-Regulation with Children & Adolescents
Progressive Muscle Relaxation Worksheet Included
Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) is a great technique to use with children struggling with self-regulation because it allows for personalization of the scripted passages we use to guide the exercise. Read more to download your FREE PMR Worksheet...
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