More Creative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth

MORE creative interventions to engage children, youth, and families in counselling and help them address issues such as feelings identification, anger management, social skills, and self-esteem. Includes techniques to manage challenging client behaviour.

More Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth presents new techniques for practitioners to add to their existing therapeutic repertoire. As in the first volume, games, art, puppets, music, role-plays, and stories are used to engage children and youth in the counselling process and help them work through their treatment issues. The activities in this book are divided into five chapters:

1. Engagement and Assessment
2. Identifying and Coping with Feelings
3. Anger Management
4. Social Skills
5. Self-Esteem

The book begins with engagement and assessment activities providing clinicians with practical ideas to build rapport and gain useful client information. The remaining four chapters provide treatment activities to help children master key emotional and behavioural competencies such as:

• identifying feeling states
• coping with emotional difficulties
• managing anger
• strengthening interpersonal skills
• enhancing self-esteem

A variety of activities are provided within each chapter, so that practitioners can choose interventions that suit their client's specific needs. A practical resource for those seeking innovative activities to add to their repertoire. Geared to 4-16 year-olds.

Includes reproducible worksheets, sample forms, and tips for managing challenging client behaviour.

Also includes downloadable link for Free Resource:

• Favorite Therapeutic Activities for Children, Youth and Families: - Practitioners Share Their Most effective Interventions. This is a creative collection of assessment and treatment techniques for individual, group, and family therapy.

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"An outstanding sequel that includes a wealth of practical techniques for clinicians working with children and families."
- Scott Riviere, L.P.C., RPT-S, Director, Healing KIDZ Author of A Kidz Toy Box and Too Cool to Play

"With this collection, Liana Lowenstein has managed to build into the activities about as many key variables as one could hope for and there is also “kid appeal” both in the names of the activities (“Road Rage”) and the activities themselves (blowing bubbles, playing cards, having a birthday party). The activities allow children to express themselves in whatever manner is most comfortable—drawing, acting, speaking, cutting and pasting, etc. A thorough and thoughtful resource."
- Dennis E. McDermott, CCW, Med, CYC. Executive Director, Ontario Association of Child and Youth Counsellors