Helping Kids Manage Grief, Fear and Anger

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Terri Akin, David Cowan, Susanna Palomares & Dianne Schilling

Grief, fear, and anger are significant emotions—so weighty, in fact, that they often drive children to think irrational thoughts and engage in unreasonable behaviors. Such responses, left unchecked, can easily spiral into destructive actions. If we want children to succeed in life, we must equip them with the tools to manage all feelings, especially those that are intense and difficult.

These activities, discussions, role plays, simulations, and worksheets are designed to help children explore, understand and express their feelings in safe and acceptable ways. Easy-to-understand explanations coupled with skill practice promote healthy responses to intense and sometimes overwhelming emotions. Children become more centered and focused, communicate more effectively, and demonstrate greater interdependence and understanding.

Use these practical and powerful activities to help children:

• Understand and successfully cope with grief and loss
• Learn strategies for effectively dealing with fears and worries
• Develop practical ways for overcoming irrational fears and anxieties
• Learn how thoughts impact feelings
• Discover how to substitute moderate thoughts for anger thoughts
• Identify feelings that precede or precipitate anger
• Practice acceptable ways of expressing negative feelings
• Learn self-control and self-management strategies
• Learn simple meditation experiences to relieve stress and regain emotional balance

Table of Contents

Introduction

• Important concepts pertaining to feelings
• The Importance of sharing and discussion
• Feelings and stress
• Repressing feelings
• Responding to crisis situations
• Facilitating the stages of grieving
• How to use the activities

PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES

• The Write Stuff
• A Vocabulary of Feelings
• A Time I Remember Feeling
• Feel Your Feelings
• Pantomime a Feeling
• Feelings and Your Body
• The “Feeling” of Poetry.
• Tune In to Your Feelings
• Painting Our Feelings
• Be Happy!
• What’s on My Mind
• Centering and Balancing
• The Ups and Downs of Feelings
• The Roller-Coaster Ride of Life

GRIEF ACTIVITIES

• The Land Remembers
• What Good Are Feelings?
• Dealing with Loss
• A Letter to…
• Crises Happen
• That’s Unfair
• Developing Responsible Feelings
• Take Responsibility for your Feelings

FEAR ACTIVITIES

• Positive vs. Negative
• One of the Scariest
• Things That Ever Happened to Me
• We All Have Fears
• Rational Fears vs. Irrational Fears.
• Fear Is a Monster
• Fear Busters
• Scary Stories
• On the Fear Line

ANGER ACTIVITIES

• Anger and Peace
• Sequencing Anger
• Personal Anger Scale
• Let’s Make Up
• Make It Better Letter
• First Feelings
• Dealing with Anger
• What’s Your Bag of Tricks?
• Taking Control of Anger
• Chart Your Anger
• Control Yourself!
• What Is Conflict?
• A Current Conflict
• The Words of Conflict
• Anger Words – Calming Words

Primary Subject Area – Counseling

Grade 3-8, 116 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, paperback