Anger Management

How to address issues relating to anger and conflict using a mentoring approach By Stephanie George. These activities have a particular focus on developing skills for managing anger, conflict and relating to others. They provide specific, structured tasks that can be used during one-to-one mentoring, intervention and for group work. The 20 activities include: My Anger Triggers – For students to recognise the initial signs of anger and identify some ways of defusing the emotion of anger. Anger...

The perfect way to help children talk about anger-inducing situations and how they would copeBy E A Morris Choose from a variety of scenarios to allow children to open up about situations that are likely to make them angry.Users pick a card and discuss that scenario, either one-to-one or in small groups.This can be followed up by role-play and the opportunity to practise different strategies for dealing with similar situations. Contains: 42 cards with scenarios such as 'Someone makes a very...

The perfect way to help young people talk about anger-inducing situations and how they would copeBy E A MorrisChoose from more than 40 scenarios to allow young people to open up about situations that are likely to make them angry. Users pick a card and discuss that scenario, either one-to-one or in small groups. The facilitator can turn the conversation onto the user’s beliefs and values that are being challenged by the situation suggested on the card. This can be followed up by role-play and...

Group games using compassion and care to deal with situations of conflict and angerBy E A MorrisBy using games to explore angry feelings, adults working with children can help them begin to understand what they are feeling and work out ways to use those feelings to achieve better outcomes. The majority of these games are to be played first in an angry way and then in a more controlled, compassionate and caring way for comparison and contrast in the subsequent discussion.Supplied on cards, this...

Session plans to control children's anger effectivelyBy E A MorrisThis anger management programme draws on research about the development of emotional and social intelligence which indicates that a well-balanced and emotionally mature individual will be capable of greater academic achievement since they are not psychologically involved with inner tensions and emotional turmoil.To achieve emotional maturity this programme teaches: Self-awareness Self-management Impulse control Active listening...

Session plans to control students' anger effectivelyBy E A MorrisThis anger management programme draws on research about the development of emotional and social intelligence which indicates that a well-balanced and emotionally mature individual will be capable of greater academic achievement since they are not psychologically involved with inner tensions and emotional turmoil.To achieve emotional maturity this programme teaches: Self-awareness Self-management Impulse control Active listening...

By E A MorrisAnger management involves steadily increasing the level of maturity a young person has with regard to both managing their emotions and being skilful enough to negotiate and collaborate with others in order to get to a win-win situation where both parties feel satisfied enough with the outcome. This manual offers a structured programme to achieve this.Being able to choose an assertive behaviour option allows young people to find reasonable ways to deal with difficult people and...

Authors: Michelle Garcia Winner, Stephanie Madrigal, the Superflex Creative TeamDefeat Distractibility!You’ve worked through the Superflex curriculum with your students and now you’re ready to dive deeper. This discounted two-book set featuring the Unthinkable Brain Eater and Thinkable Focus Tron explores one of the social learning challenges we see most often in our students — distractibility! The lessons in these two books complement each other and they even share similar settings and...

By Aaron WiemeierThis skills and sensory-based curriculum offers 46 activity-based lessons to provide a comprehensive way to help children increase their emotional intelligence (EQ). Students learn about feelings as they relate to self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.Children become equipped with an understanding of emotions and then practice specific emotion-related skills that can help them deal with the normal stressors of everyday life.Lessons are flexible...

Use these scenarios to help students think about how they can deal with conflicts appropriatelyBy Vanessa HarrisonAt the heart of this resource are 20 cards of scenarios outlining an activity leading to conflict. The focus is on clashes in school, at home and in the community. These include conflicts with peers, family, teachers and other adults including those in authority. Students discuss the situation and suggest strategies for resolving the conflict.They can call upon the ideas on the...

Teaching and Learning about Managing Anger in the Junior School by Paula Galey Developed for the first three years of school, Cool Kids! provides junior teachers with practical guidance and strategies for ways to work with children on anger issues. The strategies children learn by working through the activities in this book will help them to pay attention to the physiological and psychological processes they undergo at the point of becoming angry. They will build skills that help them to...

Figuring Out the Size of the ProblemYou’ve worked through the Superflex curriculum with your students and now you’re ready to dive deeper. This discounted two-book set featuring the Unthinkable Glassman and Thinkable Kool Q. Cumber explores one of the social learning challenges we regularly see in our students — having big reactions to small problems! The lessons in these two books complement each other and they even share similar settings and characters to bridge the learning.These engaging...

By Susan Bowman All of us make many, many choices each day. Each choice will result in something that will happen afterwards. If we "Stop" and "Think" before we act, we are much more likely to make better choices.This book will help children learn about choices they make every day and their outcomes or consequences. It presents several common, real-life situations, each with a choice to be made. Children are encouraged to compare what will likely happen if they make a good...

Authors: Dr Rob Long, Keith Hodgins, Sandra Curtin-MaggsThis contemporary series of 10 handbooks (A5) covers a range of topics about the social and emotional challenges that a young person may encounter. By teaching parents and carers a diverse set of practical skills to support children through stressful events and challenging behaviours, this collection will assist in confident navigation through many different emotions. The series aims to build capacity in parents and carers, to nurture a...

Authors: Dr Rob Long, Keith Hodgins, Sandra Curtin-MaggsThis contemporary series of 10 handbooks (A5) covers a range of topics about the social and emotional challenges that a young person may encounter. By teaching parents and carers a diverse set of practical skills to support children through stressful events and challenging behaviours, this collection will assist in confident navigation through many different emotions. The series aims to build capacity in parents and carers, to nurture a...

Authors: Dr Rob Long, Keith Hodgins, Sandra Curtin-MaggsThis contemporary series of 10 handbooks (A5) covers a range of topics about the social and emotional challenges that a young person may encounter. By teaching parents and carers a diverse set of practical skills to support children through stressful events and challenging behaviours, this collection will assist in confident navigation through many different emotions. The series aims to build capacity in parents and carers, to nurture a...

Authors: Dr Rob Long, Keith Hodgins, Sandra Curtin-MaggsThis contemporary series of 10 handbooks (A5) covers a range of topics about the social and emotional challenges that a young person may encounter. By teaching parents and carers a diverse set of practical skills to support children through stressful events and challenging behaviours, this collection will assist in confident navigation through many different emotions. The series aims to build capacity in parents and carers, to nurture a...

Authors: Dr Rob Long, Keith Hodgins, Sandra Curtin-MaggsThis contemporary series of 10 handbooks (A5) covers a range of topics about the social and emotional challenges that a young person may encounter. By teaching parents and carers a diverse set of practical skills to support children through stressful events and challenging behaviours, this collection will assist in confident navigation through many different emotions. The series aims to build capacity in parents and carers, to nurture a...

Authors: Dr Rob Long, Keith Hodgins, Sandra Curtin-MaggsThis contemporary series of 10 handbooks (A5) covers a range of topics about the social and emotional challenges that a young person may encounter. By teaching parents and carers a diverse set of practical skills to support children through stressful events and challenging behaviours, this collection will assist in confident navigation through many different emotions. The series aims to build capacity in parents and carers, to nurture a...

Authors: Dr Rob Long, Keith Hodgins, Sandra Curtin-MaggsThis contemporary series of 10 handbooks (A5) covers a range of topics about the social and emotional challenges that a young person may encounter. By teaching parents and carers a diverse set of practical skills to support children through stressful events and challenging behaviours, this collection will assist in confident navigation through many different emotions. The series aims to build capacity in parents and carers, to nurture a...

Authors: Dr Rob Long, Keith Hodgins, Sandra Curtin-MaggsThis contemporary series of 10 handbooks (A5) covers a range of topics about the social and emotional challenges that a young person may encounter. By teaching parents and carers a diverse set of practical skills to support children through stressful events and challenging behaviours, this collection will assist in confident navigation through many different emotions. The series aims to build capacity in parents and carers, to nurture a...

Authors: Dr Rob Long, Keith Hodgins, Sandra Curtin-MaggsThis contemporary series of 10 handbooks (A5) covers a range of topics about the social and emotional challenges that a young person may encounter. By teaching parents and carers a diverse set of practical skills to support children through stressful events and challenging behaviours, this collection will assist in confident navigation through many different emotions. The series aims to build capacity in parents and carers, to nurture a...

Authors: Dr Rob Long, Keith Hodgins, Sandra Curtin-MaggsThis contemporary series of 10 handbooks (A5) covers a range of topics about the social and emotional challenges that a young person may encounter. By teaching parents and carers a diverse set of practical skills to support children through stressful events and challenging behaviours, this collection will assist in confident navigation through many different emotions. The series aims to build capacity in parents and carers, to nurture a...

Authors: Dr Rob Long, Keith Hodgins, Sandra Curtin-MaggsThis contemporary series of 10 handbooks (A5) covers a range of topics about the social and emotional challenges that a young person may encounter. By teaching parents and carers a diverse set of practical skills to support children through stressful events and challenging behaviours, this collection will assist in confident navigation through many different emotions. The series aims to build capacity in parents and carers, to nurture a...

By Brad Chapin, Lena Kisner and Brooke StoverThis highly anticipated resource focuses on skill-training for preschool-age children. Self-regulation is a universal skill necessary for academic success, emotional control and healthy social interaction. With this one resource, you will be able to address School Readiness, Anger Problems, Anxiety, School Safety, Self-esteem, Social Skills and much more. The authors have developed this guide with a focus on how to help you "Do More with...

By Brad Chapin Lessons, Activities and Worksheets for Teaching the Essentials of Responsible Decision-Making and Self-Control for TEENS! This program provides a solid, yet flexible, foundation for intervention with adolescents. The strategies are presented in simple, step-by-step lessons, activities and reproducible worksheets. These strategies can be used for quick interventions with individual adolescents. They can also be used to create dozens of unique curricula, tailor-made to target...

By Brad Chapin Lessons, Activities and Worksheets for Teaching the Essentials of Responsible Decision-Making and Self-Control Self-regulation includes a universal set of skills necessary for academic success, emotional control and healthy social interaction. With this single resource you will be able to address children's anger problems, academic performance challenges, anxieties, school safety issues, self-esteem, social skills and much more. From the creator of the popular web-based Challenge...

By Tonia Caselman This book provides activities and reproducible worksheets to help students think about and practice strategies to become more reflective (vs. impulsive). Using cognitive-behavioural theory and techniques it is intended to provide school personnel with tools to teach students how to stop and think before acting. The games role-plays and worksheets are presented in a playful but thoughtful manner to help engage children while they learn invaluable lessons about how to use...

By Tonia Caselman Impulse Control Activities & Worksheets for Middle School Students provides teachers, school counsellors, social workers, and psychologists with tools to assist students aged 11-14 with better impulse control. Lessons address the multiple areas that are affected by impulsivity such as academics, emotions, problem-solving, social skills, and romantic relationships. Expanding on existing evidenced-based practices for decreasing impulsivity, lessons provide specific engaging...

Teaching and Learning about Good Mental HealthBook A: - Skills - Values - Attitudes by Sue Dawson Just Being Me is a two book resource series which provides support material for teachers and students in the area of mental health and well-being. Just Being Me – Book A: Skills - Values - Attitudes is designed to help teachers present mental health education in ways which will help students to understand: What people have in common and what makes them different from each other The value of...

Teaching and Learning about Good Mental Healthby Sue Dawson Just Being Me is a two book resource series which provides support material for teachers and students in the area of mental health and well-being. In Just Being Me - Book B: Safety Strategies there is a strong focus on potentially unsafe situations arising from alcohol and other drugs, harassment and abuse, the stress and anger of others, and risk-taking behaviour as well as an exploration of social justice and what it requires of us....

Strategies for Managing Anger at School by Paula Galey Most of us find ourselves having to deal with anger in the classroom at some time or other. Keep Cool! provides teachers with practical guidance and strategies for helping students to understand what anger is, where it comes from and how to deal with it. It focuses on assisting students to develop a repertoire of responses for managing feelings of anger before they get out of control. Students will learn to understand what triggers anger and...

By Ester R. A. Leutenberg & Kathy KhalsaWritten by a team of best-selling authors, this card series is designed to enhance mental health and well-being by acknowledging that ‘it’s good to talk’. It encourages discussion about six specific areas: resilience, mindfulness, anxiety, anger & aggression, social skills and problem solving. Each set covers five carefully chosen topics, with ten thought-provoking cards per topic. The five areas covered in the Anger and Aggression set are: Anger...

By Angela TroppaThis book will provide you with a unique, powerful tool that will help facilitate deeper personal conversations with young people. The reproducible worksheets have been field-tested with children and adolescents who are experiencing trauma and/or young people with mild to severe social/emotional/behavioural challenges. It is easy to use - simply select a topic, have students complete the worksheet and then ask the students to colour the corresponding Mind Design. Each design was...

By Paula CableOne of Those Days! is a book that provides strategies for those days when everything feels just "a little bit too much." A day where one challenge leads to another; where there are simply too many things to juggle. Using colourful images and simple statements, it describes a day that every reader should be able to relate to; after all, don't we all come up against such days from time to time?Having set the scene for a typical stressful day, we are challenged to STOP, take...

By Stephanie Jensen Princess Priscilla is having a rotten day. No bee will listen to what she has to say and no bee will play what she wants to play. In her sour mood, Priscilla finds herself acting rude. She hurts her friends with words that sting and learns they think she is being a bully-bee. After being confronted by her friends, Priscilla feels upset and is determined to be a better princess bee. She listens to her mum, the Queen, and learns to tame her inner bully-bee. Priscilla starts by...

By Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke We all experience problems; they’re a part of life. We can’t avoid them even if we use our best social thinking. It’s a hidden rule that when we’re around others, our reaction size (the behaviour we show on the outside) should match the size of our problem. But sometimes our feelings about a problem are much bigger than the problem itself! Social Thinking teaches that problems and reactions come in different sizes. Big problems are really serious ones....

By Julie Mendenhall This book can be used as a guided tool to be read with children. It provides an entertaining, endearing lesson for young people about their brain and how they can better use it to make good decisions.First, Sunny teaches the importance of our brain and how it works. Then, Sunny teaches two very simple-to-use techniques that children can use to help them better self-regulate their behavior.1. CHECK: Learn when I need to change my behavior.2. CRISSCROSS and SHIFT: Learn how to...

Written by Michelle Garcia Winner and the Superflex Creative Team Superflex and Focus Tron to the Rescue! introduces readers to the Thinkable Focus Tron. Wherever they are — at school, or home, in the community — Focus Tron helps Social Town citizens remember to use their focusing powers to stay connected to what they’re doing or what others are talking about. In the story, Sarah periodically get visits from the Unthinkable Brain Eater who distracts her thoughts away from her classwork,...

Written by Michelle Garcia Winner and the Superflex Creative Team Superflex and Kool Q. Cumber to the Rescue! introduces readers to the Thinkable Kool Q. Cumber (we call him Kool, for short!). Kool helps Social Town citizens stay calm when problems happen, and use strategies they learn to figure out the size of a problem and the expected reaction size. In the story, Aiden and his classmates present science projects, but Aiden’s friend Sam becomes frustrated with problems throughout the day. As...

Authors: Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela CrookeUse these colourful Superflex stickers at home, at school, or on the go! These stickers are to be used in association with lessons from Superflex Curriculum Superflex and the Team of Thinkables are within each of us and give us powers to figure out how to adapt our behavior based on what’s going on in different situations. Use Thinkable Stickers to: Encourage a social learner to call on the powers of their SuperflexEach Thinkable adds to one’s...

By Paula Cox and Farra CriswellTherapeutic Interventions Using Non-Therapeutic Games is a creative twist on the traditional practice of using games in therapy. This book takes games that everyone knows and loves and gives a concrete hands-on example of behavioural strategies for children from Key Stage 1 through to Key Stage 3. The sessions and activity pages can be used by anyone who is in the role of helping children determine appropriate behaviours.The sections within this book are divided by...

A discussion board game to explore the triggers and outcomes of anger By Hilary WhatesThis engaging and colourful board game will encourage players to consider ways to deal with situations that may make them angry and reconsider ways to deal with situations that may make them angry and to recognise their personal anger 'triggers'. Players move around the board and when they land on a Situation Square they take a Solve it! card which describes an anger trigger and offers several ways to deal with...

By Leah Kuypers The Zones STOP, OPT and GO poster is a companion product to the self-regulation curriculum The Zones of Regulation®, by Leah Kuypers, and aligns with Lesson 17 in the book. Many students who struggle with self-regulation have difficulty with impulse control and figuring out alternative solutions to conflicts. These students can get stuck on one way to do something and have difficulty trying other people's ideas or alternatives. STOP, OPT and GO gives students an easy-to-remember...

By Leah Kuypers The Zones Triggers poster is a companion product to the self-regulation curriculum The Zones of Regulation®, by Leah Kuypers, and coordinates with Lesson 9 "Caution! Triggers Ahead" in the book. The poster is designed as a tool adults can use to help students gain awareness of their personal triggers that lead them to the Yellow or Red Zone.A student's ability to self-regulate fluctuates throughout the day. Students may find themselves in any one or more of the four...