I’ve often used board games with elementary aged clients, whether therapeutic board games or mainstream games. Games are a great way to build rapport, conduct assessments, develop social skills like taking turns and sharing, and work on specific skills. In a previous post, I specifically looked at Games to Promote Emotional Expression, which mostly deals with uses for mainstream games. …
Celebration Interview
The end of counselling is a time for celebrating what has been accomplished, reviewing new skills, preparing for life without the counsellor, and saying “Goodbye” Kids from about 6-10 years old may enjoy doing a celebration interview. For this activity, the child gets to be the star of the show and you pretend to be a newscaster interviewing him. Pick …
Pool Noodle Extravaganza
What do you get if you combine pool noodles with balloons? Countless variations of high-energy fun to use with the kids you work with. If you have really energetic clients or group members, they might enjoy this more active session game during the early stage of counselling. Use this game for rapport building or assessing and promoting emotional expression. The …
Games to Promote Emotional Expression
One complaint that parents often have is that their children don’t talk to them about what they’re feeling. True, there are often situational factors involved. But other times, children simply haven’t learned the vocabulary or been encouraged to practice expressing their own emotions. For this reason, in the early stages of counselling, regardless of the presenting problem, I typically take …
File O’Favourites
Activity Type: Craft Stage of Counselling: Beginning Supplies Needed: Plain file folder Markers, pencil crayons, or crayons When I first started my counselling internship, my supervisor suggested this really simple opening activity involving only a file folder and some markers, crayons, or pencil crayons. It’s a bit like Pictionary, but the client gets to create their own folder to keep. …
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