Teaching Resource Collection Items
The Act Deck : 55 Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Practices to Build Connection, Find Focus and Reduce Stress
The ACT Deck offers 55 practices based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for use in therapy, classrooms or at home. These cards ask tough questions, encourage meaningful action and provide new perspectives to help you let go of negative thoughts and live in the present moment. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
The DBT Deck for Clients and Therapists
Filled with tips, ideas, calls to action, and brief exercises, these cards will be a daily go-to as you learn skills needed to enjoy the ups and navigate the downs of real world life. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Express Your Feelings Sensory Bottles
Provide children with quiet, self-directed, tangible ways to identify how they're feeling, release the energy those feelings create, and calm down. Each bottle features a unique emotion, color, and interactive element that ties to 1 of 4 emotions--happy, angry, scared, and sad. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
My Feelings Bean Bags
Express big feelings! Each bean bag has a unique texture and represents an emotion children can talk about to build vocabulary and social and emotional learning. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Don't Go Bananas : An Emotional Control Game for Kids
Based on the ABCD Model of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Kids work to identify what triggers their emotions, analyze the beliefs they have about those situations, explore their reactions and look for ways to change their thought patterns. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
The Impulse Control Game
Players have a great time as they learn impulse control skills and use them to plan and find the best route to their destination. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
The Talking, Feeling, & Doing Game : A Psychotherapeutic Game for Children
Designed to help therapist use non-threatening methods to learn the underlying psychological processes of children in therapy. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Stop, Relax & Think : A Game to Help Impulsive Children Think Before They Act
Designed to help impulsive children develop the skills they need to self-regulate, become aware of their feelings, and learn relaxation techniques. It is also a valuable tool for children with mood and anxiety disorders. Playing the game can increase hope, correct cognitive distortions, and improve problem-solving skills. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Kimochis : Toys with Feelings Inside
Kimochis can be used to help connect and communicate with children. The Kimochi toys help children identify and express emotions. Each kimochi "feeling" (7 cm. plush pillow) is a different color with a facial expression that represents an emotion, such as anger, hurt, sad, happy, friendly, brave on one side. The other side shows the corresponding feeling in words. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Totika and Plunktika Game
The Totika Cube & Plunktika Game is really three different games that may be played together and with any of the five Totika question card decks included in this Set. Use the sticks and the Early Childhood Social Emotional question deck for a quick game of pick-up sticks (Mikado stick included). Each time a stick is pulled a question of the same color is asked. Play Plunktika and try not to be the person with the most marbles. Each time a stick is removed, a question of the same color is asked. Play a quick and easy question and answer game by rolling the Cube to determine which color question to ask. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Totika, Mindfulness a Therapeutic Stacking Game Promoting Self-Care Empathy and Mindfulness.
Everyone wins playing Totika since the purpose is to have fun and laugh while promoting personal growth, healing, and wellness. Players answer questions that promote self esteem, social skills and mindfulness while trying to keep the stack from falling over. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Counseling Balls
Counseling balls provide a simple, effective way for children, teens and adults to learn and practice emotional, social and behavioral skills. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Blockaroo Magnetic Foam Builders
Blockaroo magnetic foam builders connects like magic. Soft magnetic blocks connect effortlessly and rotate 360 degree so you can build anything. Teaches colors and shapes, counting and sorting, and problem solving skill. Developed by teachers. STEM toy for early learning. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Rolling for Feelings
Connect with and identify 18 different feelings through acting, storytelling, drawing and more. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
4 In A Row: Emotion Connection
Kids will learn to identify, express, and cope with their emotions and feelings in matching emoticon discs and emotion cards. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Emotional Roller Coaster : An Anger Management Game
Ride through a roller coaster of emotions and learn about your feelings along the way. This fun anger management game for kids of all ages helps children learn how to cope and calm down when angry. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Feel Wise: Emotional Intelligence Card Deck
Personal transformation and communicating about emotions. The FeelWise Box is ideal when you want to process complex emotions and build resilience. Use when you have the time and intention to go deep. Best for: Learning how you feel, healing your emotions, talking about feelings, building resilience skills, and create engaging group sessions with authentic, feelings based dialogue. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Dive in : Ask Questions Build Connections
Dive In stimulates thought-provoking discussions with over 400 unique and unexpected questions, fostering deeper connections among players of all ages. Roll the conversation cubes to build hundreds of unique and random questions. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Let's Talk Cubes
| Let's talk Cubes invite children to share about themselves in answering 36 kid-friendly and educator-approved questions, ordered in three categories: ice breakers, social skills, and emotional/feel prompts. Based on SEL principles, these questions are designed to encourage a cooperative and caring environment. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog. |
Roll With It: The Coping Skills Kit
Teach kids to deal with big feelings. 24 coping strategies included. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
Healing Hearts A Game for Children about the Journey Through Grief
| A game to help educate children about the many phases of the grief journey, about their feelings, the challenges and changes, the discoveries they make about themselves, and finally about the new beginnings they undertake. Includes original game cards for those who have experienced the loss of a family member or close friend through death. May also be used with optional game card sets for divorce, relocation, pet loss, serious illness, sexual abuse, foster care/adoptions, murder, suicide, trauma, domestic violence, physical impairment, and children of incarcerated parents. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog. |
Overcome Alcohol Addiction Cards
Briston’s Overcome Alcohol Therapy offers 200 cards designed for addiction recovery and mental health support. Ideal as recovery cards for addiction or counseling conversation cards, this toolkit helps facilitate meaningful discussions on sobriety, triggers, and self-reflection. Perfect for individual or group therapy, including alcoholics anonymous and substance abuse counseling sessions. Click on the image to be taken to the library's catalog.
