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COUNSELLING AND THERAPY The Good Mourning Game Nicholas J. Bisenius, Ph.D. and Michele Norris, M.S.W.; Art by Steve Galloway Ages 6 to 18 An enchanting gameboard is the centerpiece of this wonderful therapy tool. It creates a magical yet peaceful environment where children who’ve suffered a loss can resolve their grief. The board illustrates nature’s basic cycle, which, like the grief cycle, moves from stormy intensity to relative calm. Game cards introduce techniques that can help children work through the grieving process. Players learn to share memories, explore feelings, enjoy laughter and play, relax, and identify their own coping strategies. When they complete the Star Path, they each receive a Shining Star—which serves as a reminder of new coping skills learned. Whether loss has occurred through illness, death, or a change in lifestyle—such as a move, a divorce, or new custody arrangements—this game lets children resolve their grief in an open, supportive, and caring environment. Research conducted with children’s grief groups shows that both group leaders and participants give the Good Mourning Game high ratings. It can be played by a therapist and one to three children, usually in about 45 minutes. MR #050232 The Good Mourning Game $ 56.95 A game for sharing thoughts, feelings, and values. Between You & Me Cynthia M. Brody, MFT; game board and card design by Thomas Morris Ages 6 through Adolescence “Imagine and describe an invention that would change the world for the better.” The open-ended questions featured in this game offer children a fun, nonthreatening, and indirect way to identify their feelings and values and express what’s on their minds. Game cards pose questions that have no right or wrong answers but do address issues of right and wrong. The cards are organized into the following 9 categories: • Manage Your Anger • Be Creative • That’s Private! • Say When it Hurts • Express Yourself • Put Yourself in Someone Else’s Place • Trust Your Gut • Divorce • Do the Right Thing Questions presented on the cards give players the opportunity to discuss feelings, ethical dilemmas, difficult social situations, privacy issues, empathy, values, and more. The sharing that takes place during the course of the game is both therapeutic and fun. Also included are four brief Parent Guides: Raising Children We Can Be Proud Of; What We Need to Teach Our Children; Trust Your Gut; Discussing Drugs With Your Children, and The Darkest Secret—Talking About Sexual Abuse. These serve as a convenient way to involve parents in the therapeutic process and reinforce open communication. Includes game plus one each of four Parent Guides MR #050234 Between You and Me $ 59.95 MR #050235 Parent Guides (5 of each guide) 25.95 Empower students by teaching emotional control. The Feelings Game Berthold Berg, Ph.D. Ages 8 and up The Feelings Game helps children and adolescents gain greater control over their feelings and emotions. It teaches them to: • Identify and label feelings • Differentiate levels of feeling • Recognize that thoughts, not circumstances, cause feelings • Identify the cognitive errors related to negative feelings • Replace negative thinking with positive thinking Game cards represent common experiences at school and at home. Two inventories (included) can be used to help select game cards that are most relevant for particular players. MR #050236 The Feelings Game $ 56.95 The Feelings Workbook This workbook reinforces the five skills taught in the game, giving students the opportunity to practice emotional control. “Homework” assignments can be used to extend the benefits of therapy. MR #050237 The Feelings Workbook $ 22.95 Emotional Bingo Marjorie Mitlin, LICSW; illustrated by Joe Madden Ages 6 to 18 Everybody knows how to play Bingo—but this version requires players to identify feelings rather than numbers on their Bingo cards. Ideal for counseling groups or classrooms, Emotional Bingo not only helps children learn to recognize various feelings, it also teaches empathy—a trait associated with lower incidence of violent behavior. Game rules provide opportunities for children to discuss their own feelings and to respond empathically to the feelings of others. Emotional Bingo offers a new, yet familiar, approach to feelings that appeals to kids of all ages. The game includes 32 Emotional Bingo Cards (English on one side; Spanish on the other), a Poster (20” x 28”), Tokens, Call-Out Cards, and a helpful Leader’s Guide, with discussion guidelines and counseling suggestions. It is available in child and teen versions. The teen version features feelings that are common in adolescence. MR #050241 Emotional Bingo for Children $ 45.95 MR #050242 Emotional Bingo for Teens $ 45.95 Heartbeats Kendra Lince Davis, M.A. Ages 10 to 18 Based on decades of experience with disadvantaged youth in low-income communities, this appealing game stays close to its roots. With game cards based on the comments of kids in group counseling sessions, Heartbeats feels authentic. It truly reflects the perspective of kids in difficult circumstances and, therefore, is likely to be accepted by them. The game encourages appropriate expression of feelings and development of empathy. It emphasizes the nourishing influence of animals and their capacity to change children’s lives. The game has an expansive breadth, addressing peer pressure, self-doubt, compassion, coping, and dealing with authority. Included with the game are 30 blank cards and card creation guidelines that allow you and your group to customize the game in ways that ensure player interest and participation. MR #050243 Heartbeats $ 55.95 Having trouble getting teens to open up? Talk-It-Out Gordon Greenhalgh, Ph.D. Ages 12 to Adult Specially designed to get teens talking, this game supports the therapeutic process by addressing cognitive, emotional, and behavioral issues that affect adolescents. And it’s fun! A sturdy, beautifully produced game board, spinner, and large, colorful game cards give teens the opportunity to discuss family, friends, feelings, values, dreams, and hopes for the future. Questions posed are thoughtprovoking, imaginative, and sure to engage even the most resistant teen. MR #050238 Talk-It-Out $ 56.95 PHONE 877-414-6463 (TOLL FREE) FAX 877-585-2992 (TOLL FREE) www.mindresources.com MIND RESOURCES 130 SHOEMAKER STREET KITCHENER, ONTARIO N2E 3G4 239
COUNSELLING AND THERAPY Mumble Jumble A Social Conversation Game Majorie Mitlin, LICSW Ages 9 to 16 For some kids, small talk is a big deal. Whether they’re shy, self-conscious, or experiencing the social and communication difficulties associated with Asperger’s Syndrome, these kids are stumped when it comes to conversing comfortably with another person. Mumble Jumble gives children and teens a chance to “practice” conversation in a safe, structured, and often hilarious way. Working in teams, players attempt to create logical conversations from sets of unordered sentences (dialogue strips). The first team to come up with a sensible dialogue must then discuss it, explaining the mood of the conversation and what feelings are being expressed. Next, they must consider the nonverbal aspects of their conversation by acting it out—with appropriate emotional inflection, tone of voice, body language, eye contact, and facial expression. Detailed rules and a pad of scrambled conversations to use as follow-up homework are included. Fast-paced and fun, this game is a great way to teach reciprocal conversation. Kids relax and lose their selfconsciousness because they’re playing in teams and practicing with somebody else’s words, not their own. MR #050240 Mumble Jumble $ 56.95 Cognitive-behavioral skills for children who are shy or socially neglected The Social Skills Game Berthold Berg, Ph.D. Ages 8 and up The Social Skills Game is an ideal way to help children acquire social skills. This appealing board game teaches children attitudes and behaviors that promote positive interaction with their peers. It is especially helpful with those who are shy or socially neglected. Game cards focus on four skill areas: Making Friends, Responding Positively to Peers, Cooperating with Peers, and Communicating Needs. Included in the game manual are three inventories that can be used to identify the child’s specific skill deficits and select game cards addressing those deficits. Although usually played by the therapist and one or more children, the game can also be loaned to parents for home use. MR #050261 The Social Skills Game $ 56.95 The Social Skills Workbook Berthold Berg, Ph.D. The Social Skills Workbook is full of exercises that reinforce concepts introduced in therapy. By practicing “self-talk,” children acquire specific skills—perceiving themselves as competent, expecting success in social situations, not worrying, accepting mistakes, and taking credit for success. This workbook is ideal for both shy, socially neglected children, and sive, socially rejected youngsters. aggres- MR #050262 The Social Skills Workbook $ 22.95 Stop the bullying cycle. The Bullying Game Berthold Berg, Ph.D. Ages 8 and up The Bullying Game is an effective intervention program because it focuses on all three roles in the bullying cycle: the victim, the bully, and the bystander. This game deals with the unique characteristics of every participant in the bullying cycle and focuses on different learning objectives for each. The game particularly emphasizes bullies’ motivations (e.g., displaced aggression, status-seeking) and victims’ coping strategies (e.g., assertion, distraction). Therapists can easily tailor the game for use with individual children or homogeneous groups of victims, bullies, or bystanders. Yet it is also useful with mixed groups, particularly in classroom settings where most bullying occurs. MR #050266 The Bullying Game $56.95 Social Thinking Skills Puppet DVD Berthold Berg, Ph.D. This most engaging component of Berg’s social skills program clearly demonstrates the six cognitive-behavioral principles taught by the game, workbook, and story cards. The DVD presents two vignettes for each of the six skills and two scenes (positive and negative models) for each vignette. An accompanying manual provides scripts, so you can easily present the skits yourself if you prefer. Best used in tandem with at least one of the other social skills tools by Berg, this is an ideal introduction to game playing or storytelling sessions, especially for younger children. MR #050264 Social Thinking Skills Puppet DVD $ 56.95 Social Skills Skits DVD Berthold Berg, Ph.D. If youre working with teens or preteens on social skills, this DVD is a great way to stimulate discussion and real behavior change. Skits performed by kids illustrate negative, and then positive, reactions to real-life situations. The dramatic contrast between “how not to” and “how to” never fails to provoke viewer involvement and discussion. The skits focus on introducing yourself, starting a conversation, giving a compliment, following rules, sharing, suggesting an activity, helping a friend in trouble, showing concern for a friend, expressing negative feelings, getting attention appropriately, and asking to borrow things. Each of the DVDs 12 sections serves as the basis for hours of discussion, written assignments, and role play. This DVD is often used in conjunction with The Social Skills Game. DVD, 30 minutes. MR #050265 Social Skills Skits DVD $56.95 Social Skills StoryCards Berthold Berg, Ph.D. The Social Skills Story Cards therapeutic tool gently encourages shy and socially rejected children to apply the same cognitive skills addressed in the Social Skills Game. The child makes up stories based on the illustrations and story prompts provided. You then help the child revise the stories to express more socially adaptive attitudes and behaviors. This process fosters a transfer of learning to the child’s own experience. Detailed instructions guide you through therapeutic storytelling techniques. MR #050263 Social Skills StoryCards $ 33.95 Encourage children and teens to communicate. Express It! Marjorie Mitlin, LICSW Ages 8 and up Here is a fun, fast-moving game that encourages players to express themselves with language, pantomime, and drawing. The card format provides a safe, structured way to address the often awkward topics that kids need and want to discuss: feelings, family, friends, school, and childhood. For teen players, you can add card decks that focus on eating habits, depression and suicide, drugs and alcohol, sexuality, and adolescence. Somewhat similar to Charades, this game is played by teams, and is therefore ideal for use with groups. A player spins the spinner, picks a card from the indicated deck, and tries to communicate its content to his or her team, using descriptive language, pantomime, or drawing. Points are awarded for successful efforts, and then the other team takes a turn at the spinner. Play can be timed to add excitement. Score sheets, sketchpads, and timer are included. For 4 to 12 players. MR #050268 Express It! $ 55.95 Help teens resolve the difficult interpersonal issues that arise in adolescence. Teen Sense Marjorie Mitlin, LICSW Ages 13 to 18 This unique game gives adolescents a chance to consider and discuss difficult issues that crop up in their daily lives. By asking them to look at and resolve uncomfortable, embarrassing, or problematic interpersonal situations, it gives them practice working out relationships with their peers and with the adults in their lives. As players move around the game board, they respond to tough questions about Friends, Family, Physical Changes, Drug and Alcohol Choices, and Intimacy in Relationships. In a frank and straightforward manner, Teen Sense addresses issues that adolescents (especially those in counseling or therapy) struggle with daily. Because some of the game cards present situations involving sexual activity (including homosexual behavior) and the use of drugs and alcohol, we recommend that you review all cards prior to play and remove any that may be inappropriate for your particular group of teens. Blank cards are provided so that you can create questions tailored to your own group. For 2 to 6 individuals or teams. MR #050260 Teen Sense $ 56.95 240 MIND RESOURCES 130 SHOEMAKER STREET KITCHENER, ONTARIO N2E 3G4 PHONE 877-414-6463 (TOLL FREE) FAX 877-585-2992 (TOLL FREE) www.mindresources.com
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