Show empathy for others.How to teach kids' empathy? Make an empathy bracelet with empathy beads to show respect and awareness of other's feelings. This busy bag activity is based on the book, Quick as a Cricket.
Excellent article and website about how and why to use games in therapy, along with lots of links for various therapeutic games and even a website for making your own with blank boards, cards, and pieces! A marvelous resource!
traumasocialworker: “ I am a big advocate for the use of poetry therapy, and have found it to be a very useful tool for counseling. This particular poetic technique is called an “I Am” poem. The poem is a fill-in-the-blank exercise.