Curriculum Center: Counseling and School Psychology Games

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This interactive card game helps students learn to stop and think about their actions; consider the consequences of their behavior; and ultimately make better personal choices. Contains 75 real-life situation cards that explore six areas that are challenging for teens: alcohol and drugs; family issues; managing anger, time, and money; peer relations; personal health and responsibility; and rules and laws.
Ages: 10 and up

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Help kids tune in to the physical warning signs of anger.This clever card game introduces kids to these "anger alerts" and teaches 10 easy strategies they can use to calm down and retain their composure.
Ages 7-12

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The Anger Control Game teaches children the skills they need for effective anger control. It is particularly helpful in treating conduct-disordered children or those with temper control problems.
Ages: 8 and up

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Anger IQ teaches teens and adults the impact of anger on the decision-making process so that they can better control their actions when angry feelings erupt. Questions and prompts encourage players to analyze anger-provoking situations, identify possible consequences of bad decisions, and make good choices.
Ages: 14 and up

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This game helps teens and adults improve their ability to identify, cope with, and express their anger. Players will be able to: identify effects of anger on health and wellness, increase awareness of managing anger, identify coping outlets, and increase awareness of the role that anger has in people's lives.
Ages: 11 and Up

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The Anger Solution Game helps children learn to control their behavior responses to anger. As players make their way around the board, they are faced with a series of decisions and learn to choose the success route over the victim cycle.
Ages: 7-12

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Angry Aardvark, Cranky Crab, Furious Frog, Mad Meerkat, Peeved Pig, and Raging Racoon teach children how to respond to anger in healthy ways. As they move from the Anger Volcano to Tranquility Beach—with occasional visits to the Time-Out Tent—kids answer game card questions about behavior, responsibility, sibling rivalry, conflict, and relationships.
Ages: 5-10

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Simply add in these one-sentence cards to any popular game to make it therapeutic. There are six different card sets featuring relevant questions about bullying, social skills, self-esteem, anger, character, and staying healthy. In between turns, a child answers a question with an immediate response to keep the game pace going.
Ages: 6 and Up

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Better Builders® Emotions feature the magnetic fun of the original ball and rod construction toy, but assembled as 6 dramatic play characters. The faces express 6 distinct emotions to which children can relate: happy, sad, angry, surprised, confused, and scared.
Ages 2 and up

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This engaging game encourages those recovering from mental illness to recognize stressors and warning signs of negative symptoms, and identify specific coping strategies and behaviors that reduce stress and encourage wellness.
Ages: 13 and up

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The deck is sorted into 5 Coping Styles: Relaxation, Distraction, Movement, Processing, and Sensory. There are so many ways to use the discovery deck: to help kids identify which coping skills work for them, as a visual reminder to use a coping skill, or as a way to find new coping skills to expand their toolbox.
Ages; 4 and up

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Players try to escape from Anger Island (and a dinosaur) by learning one of six anger management techniques, such as self-calming, communicating feelings, and creating compromises. Activities are suggested for practice between sessions.
Ages: 6-12

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Exploring My Anger is a unique anger control game that draws on each child's experiences and emotions, revealing for the therapist how the child normally deals with anger.
Ages: 5-12

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As players follow "Randy" on his job and in his personal life, they earn money by giving him good advice about frustrating and anger-provoking situations. In the process, they learn self skills, thinking skills, and people skills, which they use to help Randy stay calm, make smart decisions, and prepare for difficult situations.
Ages: 8 and up

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This game presents a template for expressing anger—an easy verbal formula that kids can use whenever emotions flare. As they respond to situations on game cards, children learn to communicate their feelings in a calm way. Ages: 6-12

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This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

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This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

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This feeling-filled, multicultural deck has 28 pairs of cards demonstrating seven basic emotions: happy, sad, surprised, scared, thoughtful, tired, and angry.
Ages: 4 and up

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Problem situations clients face every day are represented in these 75 realistic full-color photo scenes. The problems depicted are those found in the home and community along with safety-specific situations.
Ages: All Ages

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This game helps children develop better listening skills, read social cues, understand the consequences of their behavior, learn to express themselves appropriately, deal with name-calling and teasing, and use humor to defuse conflict. This game is for children who are dealing with anger.
Ages:8-14

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This card game covers the important area of anger. Players learn to understand the feelings behind their anger and how to deal with anger in an appropriate way. They learn a set of anger control skills like delaying a response in order to give time to think and problem solving skills that enable players to achieve their goals without using aggression. Based on the card game 21, players learn key skills while trying to get as close to 21 as possible without going over. The games uses six different “smart” sharks to deliver the skill set in an effective way that students can relate to.
Ages 5 and up

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Get kids talking about feelings, positive character traits and more—with 100 photo cards that promote social-emotional understanding!
Ages: 3-8

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A game to help impulsive children think before they act. In this ever-popular board game, active, impulsive children learn motor control, relaxation skills, how to express their feelings, and how to problem-solve.
Ages: 6-12

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Thumball is a soft stuffed ball to throw, roll, or pass in a circle or randomly. Catch it! Look under your thumb. Respond to the prompt. Kids absolutely love this interactive tool that will get them talking and sharing. Without even knowing it, you will be encouraging the use of interpersonal skills including taking turns, eye contact, listening, responding, valuing similarities and respecting individual differences. Players are encouraged to discuss interpersonal drama, how it starts, how it can lead to many different kinds of problems for oneself and others, and what they can do to prevent or deal with it.
Ages: 3 and Up

This card game addresses anger and is designed to help a counselor, teacher, or parent focus on specific areas that are a concern to children. The card game is intended to help children reveal their concerns and conflicts to an adult who can provide guidance. The cards prompt children to reveal the issues uppermost in their minds.
Ages: 6-12

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Covering 25 of the most common topics that concern kids, from anger to values, the activities in this unique workbook can be played as reward-based games.
Ages: 6-10

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These games are designed to provide a framework of activities and questions for therapeutic group discussions. These eight games deal with frustration management, expression of feelings, friendship skills, safety among strangers, cooperation, divorce, bereavement, and self-concept.
Ages: 5-10

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Encourage teens to open up with this fun game! Gives teens the opportunity to discuss family, friends, feelings, values, dreams, and hopes for the future. It poses thought-provoking and imaginative questions to help engage anyone
Ages: 8 and up

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This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

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This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

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Ergonomically designed for hand & mind wellness bouncy therapy, squeeze therapy and play therapy! Great for anger and stress relief.
Ages: 4 and Up

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Take Control of Impulse Control focuses on areas including thinking before you act; recognizing consequences of impulsive behavior; not acting on impulses, especially when angry; using self-talk to help combat impulsive urges; taking responsibility for your actions, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

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Toss Your Anger focuses on areas including being respectful; using positive self-talk; recognizing consequences; determining the right responses to anger; counting to ten and deep breathing techniques to relieve angry feelings, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

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Use Your I's is a board game that teaches children how to express their feelings without jeopardizing the rights of others. Game cards provide realistic situations that provoke emotions such as anger, guilt, humiliation, happiness, and embarrassment. Players learn to verbally describe their feelings to others and explain why they feel the way they do.
Ages:5-10

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CBT 123 uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach kids how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected. Great for school counselors, therapists, and other professionals who work with children on anxiety, anger, depression, and coping skills. Includes a link for a free downloadable worksheet to expand its therapeutic value.
Ages 7-16

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Our hands-on slider helps children identify how they’re feeling—an important step in regulating and labeling their emotions! The slider features eight labeled faces showing a variety of emotions, plus an easy-to-move pointer.
Ages: 3 and up

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When a child needs to relax and refocus, these cubes offer 12 different soothing activities to choose from, like “Build with blocks,” “Play with dough” and “Dance it out.” Plus, each fun-to-use cube has a helpful illustration kids can follow on their own to calm down independently.
Ages: 3 and up

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Discuss a variety of emotions with this exciting Emotion-oes Board Game for Social Emotional Learning and Collaborative Play. This board game offers a new twist on the long beloved game of dominoes. Encourage children to match the cards as you discuss how to regulate the emotions.
Ages: 4 and up

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Feelings Fair is a new board game specifically designed to give children important skills for (a) recognizing feelings in themselves and others, (b) expressing feelings in a mature way, and (c) handling difficult situations that involve strong or negative feelings
Ages: 7 and up

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Furious Fred® is an educational board game designed to teach important concepts and practical skills for controlling anger and avoiding violence. Fred is a student who in the past has been quick to get angry and quick to try to get back at others with screaming, threats, pushing, and hitting. Players earn points by giving Fred good advice on how to deal with frustrating and anger provoking situations, both at school and at home.
Ages: 8 and up

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Sometimes you can learn a lot from negative role models, like the aptly named Blunder family—Becky, Bobby, Brenda, and Billy. As kids help this hilarious foursome improve their manners, they also discover how to show kindness, how to properly introduce oneself, how to be courteous on the phone, and much, much more.
Ages: 5 and Up

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The Classroom Behavior Game teaches 12 positive behaviors including Raising Your Hand, Taking Turns, Ignoring Inappropriate Behavior of Others, Having a Positive Attitude, and Listening. Designed for children with behavior problems and who have difficulty following rules.
Ages 4-12

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This game helps reduce conduct problems and oppositional behavior in children and adolescents. As they move around the game board, players learn how to evaluate hostile intent, how to reinforce appropriate behavior, how to use self-statements and problem-solving skills to control inappropriate behavior, and how to understand the point of view of those in authority.
Ages: 8 and Up

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The game of Consequences is a fun way to introduce or reinforce the idea that there are consequences for all actions and behavior. Each card has an everyday task or behavior that results in a forward or backward move.
Ages: 3 and Up

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Behavioral problems account for as many as 50% of all referrals to counselors, and games have been shown to be one of the best ways to turn around non-compliant or oppositional kids. This game uses a multi-modal approach to teach new skills, including emotional (affective), behavioral, cognitive, and social skills.
Ages: 6-12

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This fun-filled card game teaches children how to handle stress using well-researched stress reduction techniques that include: deep breathing and muscle relaxation, visualization, self-talk, and creating a healthy lifestyle. The bonus activities challenge players to practice their newly learned skills.
Ages: 6-12

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Study after study tells us that children with a positive, optimistic attitude will be less susceptible to depression and other emotional and behavioral problems. This game teaches children how to identify and change negative thinking, how to recognize the effects of a negative and pessimistic attitude, and how to behave in ways that are more socially appropriate
Ages: 6-12

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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
Ages: 12-18

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Give kids an opportunity to walk in someone else's shoes. By playing this lively game of dominoes, students develop the capacity to understand the feelings of others.
Ages: 6-12

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Focus On Manners Fun Deck has 60 cards to help students talk about different types of behaviors they may see at school, in the community, and at home.
Ages 5 and Up

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As players follow "Randy" on his job and in his personal life, they earn money by giving him good advice about frustrating and anger-provoking situations. In the process, they learn self skills, thinking skills, and people skills, which they use to help Randy stay calm, make smart decisions, and prepare for difficult situations.
Ages: 8 and up

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The purpose of this game is to provide an enjoyable game in the context of which important issues are introduced. A wide variety of issues are focused on: self-esteem, manners, safety, ethics, values, health, consideration for others, interpersonal relations, the value of learning, sympathy, empathy, and competence.
Ages: 4-11

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These card games teach basic social concepts that children need to behave appropriately in all kinds of settings. Each card presents a color photograph of a social situation on one side and The Story, The Facts, and Questions on the reverse. The Story explains what is happening in the photo, The Facts quickly list essential details, and Questions encourage discussion.
Ages: 5-12

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Designed for use with children and adolescents who experience frequent conflict with peers, The Social Conflict Game teaches seven cognitive and behavioral conflict resolution skills to reduce interpersonal antagonism:Recognizing that circumstances are often the source of conflict, Assuming personal responsibility for conflict, Learning the other person's point of view, Disputing beliefs that justify aggression, Thinking ahead about consequences, Using assertive rather than aggressive behavior, and Using problem-solving skills.
Ages: 8 and Up

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This game addressing morals, manners, empathy, friendship, and showing and managing emotions, these games encourage discussion among students about proper social behavior as they strive to find the best solution to problems.
Ages: 6-12

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The Self-Control Game teaches children how to exercise self-control in academic and social situations. It addresses 24 specific traits and behaviors classified as impulsive, inattentive, or hyperactive.
Ages: 8 and Up

This card game addresses behavior and is designed to help a counselor, teacher, or parent focus on specific areas that are a concern to children. The card game is intended to help children reveal their concerns and conflicts to an adult who can provide guidance. The cards prompt children to reveal the issues uppermost in their minds.
Ages: 6 to 12

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This game was designed to teach children the importance of being patient in many different situations as they try a variety of fun tasks and try to solve problems. This game teaches frustration tolerance, self-control, respect for others, and a sense of time and timing.
Ages:6-12

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Teaches children that when they act responsibly, they feel good about themselves. This entertaining game encourages children to make responsible choices in their everyday lives. The players must figure out who is performing mysterious acts of kindness in their school.
Ages:7-12

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Many kids are unaware of the socially accepted physical boundaries that most of us take for granted. This game helps them learn what’s “too close,” “too far,” or “just right” in various social situations.
Ages 5-12

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Players have a great time as they practice and improve their ability to stay focused, even with distractions!, Players earn rewards while problem solving with puzzles, words, and lists.
Ages 6-18

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Help kids tune in to the physical warning signs of anger.This clever card game introduces kids to these "anger alerts" and teaches 10 easy strategies they can use to calm down and retain their composure.
Ages 7-12

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This game helps teens and adults improve their ability to identify, cope with, and express their anger. Players will be able to: identify effects of anger on health and wellness, increase awareness of managing anger, identify coping outlets, and increase awareness of the role that anger has in people's lives.
Ages: 11 and Up

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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
Ages: 6 and up

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Problem situations clients face every day are represented in these 75 realistic full-color photo scenes. The problems depicted are those found in the home and community along with safety-specific situations.
Ages: All Ages

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A game to help impulsive children think before they act. In this ever-popular board game, active, impulsive children learn motor control, relaxation skills, how to express their feelings, and how to problem-solve.
Ages: 6-12

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The title says it all. This box of activity sheets really is a "treasure chest" for busy counselors seeking new and engaging ways to help children and teens develop academic, social, and life skills.
Ages: 6 and up

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Patience is an important ingredient in a child's social and academic success. This game was designed to teach children the importance of being patient in many different situations as they try a variety of fun tasks and try to solve problems. This game teaches frustration tolerance, self-control, respect for others, and a sense of time and timing.
Ages : 6 and up

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Get kids talking about feelings, positive character traits and more—with 100 photo cards that promote social-emotional understanding!
Ages: 3-8

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The deck is sorted into 5 Coping Styles: Relaxation, Distraction, Movement, Processing, and Sensory. There are so many ways to use the discovery deck: to help kids identify which coping skills work for them, as a visual reminder to use a coping skill, or as a way to find new coping skills to expand their toolbox.
Ages; 4 and up

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Talk About It is a versatile set of 12 games that facilitate conversation and engage teens. Talk About It includes eight topic decks, suggestions for play, and two dice. Topics include Icebreakers, Values, Family, Friendships, Self-Esteem, Stress, Feelings, and Situations. Talk About It helps clinicians, educators, parents and others build strong relationships with teens in a fun, simple, and low-pressure way!
Ages: 13 and up

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Anger IQ teaches teens and adults the impact of anger on the decision-making process so that they can better control their actions when angry feelings erupt. Questions and prompts encourage players to analyze anger-provoking situations, identify possible consequences of bad decisions, and make good choices.
Ages: 14 and up

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The Emotional Intelligence Game is an entertaining and engaging game that reflects the five areas of emotional intelligence, self-awareness, mood management, self-motivation, and empathy. There are five decks of cards representing the five skills and a sixth deck of Bonus Cards that add to the educational value of the game as well as add to fun and excitement.
Ages: 7-14

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Take Control of Impulse Control focuses on areas including thinking before you act; recognizing consequences of impulsive behavior; not acting on impulses, especially when angry; using self-talk to help combat impulsive urges; taking responsibility for your actions, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

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Toss Your Anger focuses on areas including being respectful; using positive self-talk; recognizing consequences; determining the right responses to anger; counting to ten and deep breathing techniques to relieve angry feelings, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

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CBT 123 uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach kids how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected. Great for school counselors, therapists, and other professionals who work with children on anxiety, anger, depression, and coping skills. Includes a link for a free downloadable worksheet to expand its therapeutic value.
Ages 7-16

Feeling stressed? You aren’t alone. Between school, friends, dating, family, and planning for the future, it’s easy for teens to feel stressed out. But research shows that if you learn a few strategies for getting stress under control now, you’ll build the skills you need to deal with problems and difficult feelings in the future. But where do you start?
Ages: 13 years and up

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Our hands-on slider helps children identify how they’re feeling—an important step in regulating and labeling their emotions! The slider features eight labeled faces showing a variety of emotions, plus an easy-to-move pointer.
Ages: 3 and up

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When a child needs to relax and refocus, these cubes offer 12 different soothing activities to choose from, like “Build with blocks,” “Play with dough” and “Dance it out.” Plus, each fun-to-use cube has a helpful illustration kids can follow on their own to calm down independently.
Ages: 3 and up

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Discuss a variety of emotions with this exciting Emotion-oes Board Game for Social Emotional Learning and Collaborative Play. This board game offers a new twist on the long beloved game of dominoes. Encourage children to match the cards as you discuss how to regulate the emotions.
Ages: 4 and up

MANIP-2001
Feelings Fair is a new board game specifically designed to give children important skills for (a) recognizing feelings in themselves and others, (b) expressing feelings in a mature way, and (c) handling difficult situations that involve strong or negative feelings
Ages: 7 and up

MANIP-2002
Furious Fred® is an educational board game designed to teach important concepts and practical skills for controlling anger and avoiding violence. Fred is a student who in the past has been quick to get angry and quick to try to get back at others with screaming, threats, pushing, and hitting. Players earn points by giving Fred good advice on how to deal with frustrating and anger provoking situations, both at school and at home.
Ages: 8 and up

MANIP-507
Simply add in these one-sentence cards to any popular game to make it therapeutic. There are six different card sets featuring relevant questions about bullying, social skills, self-esteem, anger, character, and staying healthy. In between turns, a child answers a question with an immediate response to keep the game pace going.
Ages: 6 and Up

MANIP-86 Bullies to Buddies
Players learn that all students can work to prevent bullying, whether they are in the role of the target, bystanders, or the bully; non-violent skills that they can use to fend off bullying; skills that bystanders can use to discourage bullying; and positive skills that they can use without resorting to bullying behavior.
Ages: 7-11

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Students move along the game board selecting “Bullies,” “Victims,” or “Bystanders” cards that describe various incidents and prompt discussion. Each card is weighted based on the severity of the bullying act so children understand how harmful each behavior is. Players learn how to model good, proactive behavior and overcome bullying.
Ages: 7 and Up

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Bully Busters is a game that deals with bullying in a way that middle school students can easily understand. It teaches specific prevention and intervention strategies - skills which students can put to immediate use whether they are targets of bullies, bystanders, or bullies needing redirection.
Ages:10-14

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When learning is fun and interactive, kids are more likely to retain key ideas. This Crazy Eights–style game asks kids to respond to questions about bullying; they get rid of cards (and move closer to being "bully free") by offering reasonable suggestions.
Ages: 4-12

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In this new game, players have fun playing dominoes while learning how all kids can work to reduce bullying and violence. Before playing a domino, a player picks a card from one of the four decks and either answers a question or practices a skill. The cards turn the players into experts on bullying. They are called upon to give advice to targets of bullying, bystanders, and even the bullies.
Ages: 5-10

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The Bully Game 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.
Ages: 8 years and up

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Kids learn friendship-building skills such as listening, patience, and paying attention, and how to deal with various friendship issues such as teasing, bullies, jealousy, anger, and more.
Ages:5-12

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Players learn how to stay safe from predators, bullies, scams, and identity theft, as they travel through the exciting, yet dangerous world of the Internet, cell phones, MP3 players, and other wireless devices.
Ages: 8-12

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Each player is assigned an area of the board—the classroom, the school bus, the cafeteria, or the hallway. Players must get rid of the bullies and protect the victims in their area of the school by answering true/false questions about the nature of bullying.
Ages: 6-12

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This card game gives students an opportunity to discuss bullying and what they can do to stop it. As kids race to get rid of “Bully” and “Bad Bystander” cards, they learn what bullies do and how to respond to it.
Ages: 6 and Up

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The game board prominently displays the four cornerstones of Rachel's philosophy; kindness, acceptance, positive influence, and goal setting. Players join their links to create a chain of kindness around the game board. Card questions encourage players to discuss their experiences, thoughts, and feelings about important character issues.
Ages: 10 and Up

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This new deck of cards teaches girls how painful rumors, gossip, and lies can be. Students engage in conversation and are encouraged to stop hurtful behavior and increase empathy for their peers. In addition, girls learn the importance of apologizing and forgiving one another when feelings are upset.
Ages: 5-10

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It's important for teenagers to learn to express themselves in ways that are socially acceptable, no matter what kind of feelings they are experiencing. Sticks and Stones is a board game that teaches adolescents facts about—and alternatives to—anger and violence.
Ages: 13-18

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In this game of cooperation, children learn to recognize when they are being mean to others and how to stop it. They also learn how to respond when others are mean to them.
Ages: 5-10

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Players respond to prompts around the topic of bullying. Discussions may include what student can say to a bully what it feels like to be bullied what are the results of bullying and how bystanders help.
Ages 3 and Up

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This card game addresses shyness and is designed to help a counselor, teacher, or parent focus on specific areas that are a concern to children. The card game is intended to help children reveal their concerns and conflicts to an adult who can provide guidance. The cards prompt children to reveal the issues uppermost in their minds.
Ages: 6-12

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Problem situations clients face every day are represented in these 75 realistic full-color photo scenes. The problems depicted are those found in the home and community along with safety-specific situations.
Ages: All Ages

MANIP-1948
Talk About It is a versatile set of 12 games that facilitate conversation and engage teens. Talk About It includes eight topic decks, suggestions for play, and two dice. Topics include Icebreakers, Values, Family, Friendships, Self-Esteem, Stress, Feelings, and Situations. Talk About It helps clinicians, educators, parents and others build strong relationships with teens in a fun, simple, and low-pressure way!
Ages: 13 and up

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Helps players learn important skills and apply them to commonly encountered situations. Skills learned include: recognizing how to react to a bully's behavior, understanding the role of the bystander, practicing assertiveness techniques for the target, understanding when it's important to bring in a trusted adult and more!
Ages: 9 and up

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This fun game helps players learn important skills and apply them to common situations. Teaches important lessons like: listening, showing respect, compromise, taking responsibility, knowing when to walk away, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

MANIP-2001
Feelings Fair is a new board game specifically designed to give children important skills for (a) recognizing feelings in themselves and others, (b) expressing feelings in a mature way, and (c) handling difficult situations that involve strong or negative feelings
Ages: 7 and up

MANIP-2002
Furious Fred® is an educational board game designed to teach important concepts and practical skills for controlling anger and avoiding violence. Fred is a student who in the past has been quick to get angry and quick to try to get back at others with screaming, threats, pushing, and hitting. Players earn points by giving Fred good advice on how to deal with frustrating and anger provoking situations, both at school and at home.
Ages: 8 and up

MANIP-507
Simply add in these one-sentence cards to any popular game to make it therapeutic. There are six different card sets featuring relevant questions about bullying, social skills, self-esteem, anger, character, and staying healthy. In between turns, a child answers a question with an immediate response to keep the game pace going.
Ages: 6 and Up

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This game is designed to help youth and young adults think and act responsibly.Topics include: daily living, education, relationships, school, community substance abuse, employment, and after school activities. Players are asked to identify thinking errors and replace them with accurate thoughts and create positive action plans for themselves, other individuals, and the community as a whole.
Ages: 10 and up

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Focus On Manners Fun Deck has 60 cards to help students talk about different types of behaviors they may see at school, in the community, and at home.
Ages 5 and Up

MANIP-516, MANIP-1967
As players follow "Randy" on his job and in his personal life, they earn money by giving him good advice about frustrating and anger-provoking situations. In the process, they learn self skills, thinking skills, and people skills, which they use to help Randy stay calm, make smart decisions, and prepare for difficult situations.
Ages: 8 and up

MANIP 1303
This game will help players improve their leadership skills and develop an understanding for the key concepts in becoming a good leader. Good leaders focus on moving the group towards accomplishing their goals and keeping the group members motivated. This games teaches those critical skills.
Ages: 10-14

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Polite Pigs is a card game that reinforces an understanding of good manners by matching situations with an appropriate polite response. A Situation card is captured with a Thank You, Please, Excuse Me or I?m Sorry card. And of course, each turn begins with a polite request, and a thank you!
Ages: 5 and Up

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This is a language card game where kids have fun aswering over 1,000 questions! The questions present situations where kids learn to understand sarcasm, state opinions, questioning skills, plus much more. This Mom's Choice Award-Winning game is sure to keep your kids entertained!
Ages: 6 and Up

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This game addressing morals, manners, empathy, friendship, and showing and managing emotions, these games encourage discussion among students about proper social behavior as they strive to find the best solution to problems.
Ages: 6-12

MANIP-242
These games are designed to provide a framework of activities and questions for therapeutic group discussions. These eight games deal with frustration management, expression of feelings, friendship skills, safety among strangers, cooperation, divorce, bereavement, and self-concept.
Ages: 5-10

MANIP 396
With a thousand possible answers to each question, this game is non-competitive, entertaining and educational. Featuring questions such as, "Name the four most important things in your life right now," and "What would you do for a million dollars and why," The ungame is a great way to bring people together and break the ice.
Ages: 5 and Up

MANIP-163
Turn learning into a game and kids will want to play. This card game spotlights ten top character traits: Caring, Citizenship, Cooperation, Fairness, Forgiveness, Honesty, Relationships, Respect, Responsibility, and Safety.Each card features a "What If" scenario or question about character that gets kids thinking about what they would do-and what they stand for.
Ages: 5-12

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The You & Me Social Skills Board Game Ages 4-12. A cooperative board game that teaches day-to-day social skills and social awareness. Designed to help children become socially aware of the world they live in, as they build the social skills they need in everyday life: helping, sharing, being polite, cooperating, understanding different points of views, listening, following rules, acting assertively, and being a friend.
Ages 6-13

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This interactive card game helps students learn to stop and think about their actions; consider the consequences of their behavior; and ultimately make better personal choices. Contains 75 real-life situation cards that explore six areas that are challenging for teens: alcohol and drugs; family issues; managing anger, time, and money; peer relations; personal health and responsibility; and rules and laws.
Ages: 10 and up

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The title says it all. This box of activity sheets really is a "treasure chest" for busy counselors seeking new and engaging ways to help children and teens develop academic, social, and life skills.
Ages: 6 and up

MANIP-1937
Get kids talking about feelings, positive character traits and more—with 100 photo cards that promote social-emotional understanding!
Ages: 3-8

MANIP-1962
This fun game helps players learn important skills and apply them to common situations. Teaches important lessons like: listening, showing respect, compromise, taking responsibility, knowing when to walk away, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

Imagine your friends telling you, in turn, what they appreciate most about you. This is what this tool does as you experience the construction of a personal Totem reflecting the best of your personality. The Totem is built using an ANIMAL card, associated with one of your strengths, and a QUALITY card, which describes a quality you have. Both cards are chosen and then explained by the other players.

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CBT 123 uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach kids how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected. Great for school counselors, therapists, and other professionals who work with children on anxiety, anger, depression, and coping skills. Includes a link for a free downloadable worksheet to expand its therapeutic value.
Ages 7-16

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Furious Fred® is an educational board game designed to teach important concepts and practical skills for controlling anger and avoiding violence. Fred is a student who in the past has been quick to get angry and quick to try to get back at others with screaming, threats, pushing, and hitting. Players earn points by giving Fred good advice on how to deal with frustrating and anger provoking situations, both at school and at home.
Ages: 8 and up

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The Classroom Behavior Game teaches 12 positive behaviors including Raising Your Hand, Taking Turns, Ignoring Inappropriate Behavior of Others, Having a Positive Attitude, and Listening. Designed for children with behavior problems and who have difficulty following rules.
Ages 4-12

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When children enter a new culture, they often experience fear, anxiety, and stress. Common Ties eases this process by helping children find shared feelings and experiences and accept differences in a non-divisive way.
Ages: 8-12

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This game is designed to help children think about the consequences of their behavior and distinguish good choices from bad ones. The game will also help children practice relaxation and self-control behaviors, learning that they can control their bodies as well as their behavior.
Ages: 6-12

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Players learn: to approach other children and make new friends; to deal with others fairly; to resolve conflicts in a win-win way; to express themselves assertively but not aggressively; to use listening skills; to contribute to groups; and to use humor appropriately.
Ages: 6-12

MANIP-697
This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

MANIP-1026
This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

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These card games teach basic social concepts that children need to behave appropriately in all kinds of settings. Each card presents a color photograph of a social situation on one side and The Story, The Facts, and Questions on the reverse. The Story explains what is happening in the photo, The Facts quickly list essential details, and Questions encourage discussion.
Ages: 5-12

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This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

MANIP-949
This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

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The Self-Control Game teaches children how to exercise self-control in academic and social situations. It addresses 24 specific traits and behaviors classified as impulsive, inattentive, or hyperactive.
Ages: 8 and Up

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What Do You Say....What Do You Do...At School? is a game for teaching and reinforcing important social skills that children need for successful interaction with their peers, teachers, and parents. The social situation cards in the game target reasoning, inferencing, pragmatic, narrative, and conversational skills.
Ages: 5 and Up

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Each of these pleasingly squeezable 4-inch balls has 32 facets bearing questions, graphics, or topics. Make up your own rules or follow those provided. The Who Are You? ball stimulates social conversation and closer relationships
Ages: 4 and Up

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Players have a great time as they practice and improve their ability to stay focused, even with distractions!, Players earn rewards while problem solving with puzzles, words, and lists.
Ages 6-18

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This or That! is an ice breaker that can be enjoyed by all ages. It is easy to travel and store, making it the perfect party game. You never know what your friend may have picked, creating lots of giggles and gasps!

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Help kids tune in to the physical warning signs of anger.This clever card game introduces kids to these "anger alerts" and teaches 10 easy strategies they can use to calm down and retain their composure.
Ages 7-12

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24 inch inflatable ball deals with questions relating to daily life. What should you do if a stranger is following you for a long period of time? or What would you do if a fire broke out in your house?
Ages-10 and up

MANIP-0184
24 inch inflatable ball deals with questions relating to daily life. What should you do if a stranger is following you for a long period of time? or What would you do if a fire broke out in your house?
Ages-6 and up

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Children will exercise their imaginations for hours with this magnetic playset that encourages storytelling, promote problem-solving skills, and build skills in sequencing.
Ages: 3 and up

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Problem situations clients face every day are represented in these 75 realistic full-color photo scenes. The problems depicted are those found in the home and community along with safety-specific situations.
Ages: All Ages

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The title says it all. This box of activity sheets really is a "treasure chest" for busy counselors seeking new and engaging ways to help children and teens develop academic, social, and life skills.
Ages: 6 and up

MANIP-1947
The deck is sorted into 5 Coping Styles: Relaxation, Distraction, Movement, Processing, and Sensory. There are so many ways to use the discovery deck: to help kids identify which coping skills work for them, as a visual reminder to use a coping skill, or as a way to find new coping skills to expand their toolbox.
Ages; 4 and up

MANIP-1948
Talk About It is a versatile set of 12 games that facilitate conversation and engage teens. Talk About It includes eight topic decks, suggestions for play, and two dice. Topics include Icebreakers, Values, Family, Friendships, Self-Esteem, Stress, Feelings, and Situations. Talk About It helps clinicians, educators, parents and others build strong relationships with teens in a fun, simple, and low-pressure way!
Ages: 13 and up

MANIP-1964
Helps players learn important skills and apply them to commonly encountered situations. Skills learned include: recognizing how to react to a bully's behavior, understanding the role of the bystander, practicing assertiveness techniques for the target, understanding when it's important to bring in a trusted adult and more!
Ages: 9 and up

MANIP-1962
This fun game helps players learn important skills and apply them to common situations. Teaches important lessons like: listening, showing respect, compromise, taking responsibility, knowing when to walk away, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

MANIP-2094
When a child needs to relax and refocus, these cubes offer 12 different soothing activities to choose from, like “Build with blocks,” “Play with dough” and “Dance it out.” Plus, each fun-to-use cube has a helpful illustration kids can follow on their own to calm down independently.
Ages: 3 and up

MANIP-2002
Furious Fred® is an educational board game designed to teach important concepts and practical skills for controlling anger and avoiding violence. Fred is a student who in the past has been quick to get angry and quick to try to get back at others with screaming, threats, pushing, and hitting. Players earn points by giving Fred good advice on how to deal with frustrating and anger provoking situations, both at school and at home.
Ages: 8 and up

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The Anger Control Game teaches children the skills they need for effective anger control. It is particularly helpful in treating conduct-disordered children or those with temper control problems.
Ages: 8 and up

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This conflict-resolution game is based on the popular card game 21. Players learn key skills while they try to get as close to 21 as possible without going over. This game helps players to learn strategic and respectful ways for resolving conflicts effectively. Players will learn how to strive for win-win solutions.
Ages: 10-15

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This board/card game utilizes a baseball diamond format as a visual reminder for not going out of bounds. Players move pawns around the board and answer questions from the 4 card categories: Saying and Accepting "NO"; Managing strong emotions; Respecting personal space and property; and Relationship/Communication limits.
Ages: 6-12

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Adorable, irresistible, and really useful, these two therapy tools help kids identify feelings, learn empathy, resolve conflict, and communicate more effectively with peers and parents.
Ages: 2 and Up

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As players follow "Randy" on his job and in his personal life, they earn money by giving him good advice about frustrating and anger-provoking situations. In the process, they learn self skills, thinking skills, and people skills, which they use to help Randy stay calm, make smart decisions, and prepare for difficult situations.
Ages: 8 and up

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Players learn: to approach other children and make new friends; to deal with others fairly; to resolve conflicts in a win-win way; to express themselves assertively but not aggressively; to use listening skills; to contribute to groups; and to use humor appropriately.
Ages: 6-12

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Using one side of the gameboard, players learn basic conflict resolution skills: apologizing, taking turns, sharing, ignoring, and getting help. Then, turning the board over, they learn deeper conflict resolutions skills:respecting differences, communicating feelings, and attacking the problem rather than the person. Ages:7-12

MANIP 1391
Problem situations clients face every day are represented in these 75 realistic full-color photo scenes. The problems depicted are those found in the home and community along with safety-specific situations. They are designed to facilitate verbal expression, complex problem solving, and personal reaction.
Ages: 3 and Up

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The game prominently displays the four cornerstones of Rachel's philosophy; kindness, acceptance, positive influence, and goal setting. Players join their links to create a chain of kindness around the game board. Card questions encourage players to discuss their experiences, thoughts, and feelings about character issues.
Ages: 10 and Up

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This game helps children develop better listening skills, read social cues, understand the consequences of their behavior, learn to express themselves appropriately, deal with name-calling and teasing, and use humor to defuse conflict. This game is for children who are dealing with anger.
Ages:8-14

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This new deck of cards teaches girls how painful rumors, gossip, and lies can be. Students engage in conversation and are encouraged to stop hurtful behavior and increase empathy for their peers. In addition, girls learn the importance of apologizing and forgiving one another when feelings are upset.
Ages: 5-10

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In this game of cooperation, children learn to recognize when they are being mean to others and how to stop it. They also learn how to respond when others are mean to them.
Ages: 5-10

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These games are designed to provide a framework of activities and questions for therapeutic group discussions. These eight games deal with frustration management, expression of feelings, friendship skills, safety among strangers, cooperation, divorce, bereavement, and self-concept.
Ages: 5-10

MANIP 1363
Play revolves around three sets of cards labeled: Who?, What?, and Where? As in the classic detective game Clue, one card of each type is placed in a Secret Envelope. Working together, players try to find out which cards are in the envelope. Their goal is to discover who commits a responsible act, what that act is, and where it takes place. Along the way, they respond to thought-provoking questions that ask them to evaluate behavioral choices.
Ages: 7-12

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Many kids are unaware of the socially accepted physical boundaries that most of us take for granted. This game helps them learn what’s “too close,” “too far,” or “just right” in various social situations.
Ages 5-12

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This interactive card game helps students learn to stop and think about their actions; consider the consequences of their behavior; and ultimately make better personal choices. Contains 75 real-life situation cards that explore six areas that are challenging for teens: alcohol and drugs; family issues; managing anger, time, and money; peer relations; personal health and responsibility; and rules and laws.
Ages: 10 and up

MANIP-1579
When conflict arises in the classroom, kids just grab our activity can—and solve the problem themselves! The 6 1⁄2" can is filled with all the materials kids need for 6 different activities that help peacefully resolve common conflicts. Kids draw straws, play "Heads or Tails?" & more!
Ages-5 and up

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Problem situations clients face every day are represented in these 75 realistic full-color photo scenes. The problems depicted are those found in the home and community along with safety-specific situations.
Ages: All Ages

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Children mix and match our illustrated blocks to create contemporary families—and build eye/hand coordination! Featuring modern styling and a variety of skin tones, the blocks have powerful embedded magnets for no-fail building, making it easy for kids to put together families as unique as their own.
Ages: 3-6

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The deck is sorted into 5 Coping Styles: Relaxation, Distraction, Movement, Processing, and Sensory. There are so many ways to use the discovery deck: to help kids identify which coping skills work for them, as a visual reminder to use a coping skill, or as a way to find new coping skills to expand their toolbox.
Ages; 4 and up

MANIP-1948
Talk About It is a versatile set of 12 games that facilitate conversation and engage teens. Talk About It includes eight topic decks, suggestions for play, and two dice. Topics include Icebreakers, Values, Family, Friendships, Self-Esteem, Stress, Feelings, and Situations. Talk About It helps clinicians, educators, parents and others build strong relationships with teens in a fun, simple, and low-pressure way!
Ages: 13 and up

MANIP-1945
Anger IQ teaches teens and adults the impact of anger on the decision-making process so that they can better control their actions when angry feelings erupt. Questions and prompts encourage players to analyze anger-provoking situations, identify possible consequences of bad decisions, and make good choices.
Ages: 14 and up

MANIP-1963
Take Control of Impulse Control focuses on areas including thinking before you act; recognizing consequences of impulsive behavior; not acting on impulses, especially when angry; using self-talk to help combat impulsive urges; taking responsibility for your actions, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

MANIP-1964
Helps players learn important skills and apply them to commonly encountered situations. Skills learned include: recognizing how to react to a bully's behavior, understanding the role of the bystander, practicing assertiveness techniques for the target, understanding when it's important to bring in a trusted adult and more!
Ages: 9 and up

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Roll and Resolve focuses on areas including talking it out with friends; being fair to each other; being a good listener; learning to compromise; showing empathy; recognizing when to apologize; learning to forgive; understanding body language.
Ages: 9 and up

MANIP-1960
Toss Your Anger focuses on areas including being respectful; using positive self-talk; recognizing consequences; determining the right responses to anger; counting to ten and deep breathing techniques to relieve angry feelings, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

MANIP-1962
This fun game helps players learn important skills and apply them to common situations. Teaches important lessons like: listening, showing respect, compromise, taking responsibility, knowing when to walk away, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

Imagine your friends telling you, in turn, what they appreciate most about you. This is what this tool does as you experience the construction of a personal Totem reflecting the best of your personality. The Totem is built using an ANIMAL card, associated with one of your strengths, and a QUALITY card, which describes a quality you have. Both cards are chosen and then explained by the other players.

MANIP-711
The Anger Control Game teaches children the skills they need for effective anger control. It is particularly helpful in treating conduct-disordered children or those with temper control problems.
Ages: 8 and up

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Simply add in these one-sentence cards to any popular game to make it therapeutic. There are six different card sets featuring relevant questions about bullying, social skills, self-esteem, anger, character, and staying healthy. In between turns, a child answers a question with an immediate response to keep the game pace going.
Ages: 6 and Up

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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, Do the Right Thing, Express Yourself, Put Yourself in Someone Else's Place, Trust Your Gut, and Divorce.
Ages: 6-18

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Stress is a factor that contributes to almost every mental health problem. Stress can affect a child's physical health, too. Dr. PlayWell to the rescue! This engaging game helps children develop the resiliency skills they need to deal with all kinds of stress, helping them cope with both developmental and situational problems. Ages: 6-12.

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As players try to capture the Worry Monsters, they learn important steps for dealing with persistent worry - identifying feelings, self-calming, making positive self-statements, changing negative thoughts, planning, coping with difficult feelings, and self-monitoring. As they play, children will learn important skills to help them worry less. Includes a reproducible assessment form to be filled out by parents or teachers.
Ages: 6-12

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Be the first player to save all of the Emotes by completing creative tasks and collecting power chips. This game of emotional expression includes instructions, game board, power collection cards, "Say!" and "Do!" playing cards, power chips, Emotes character pieces, and 2 dice.
Ages: 3 and Up

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Six different Emotion Blow up Balls, Happy, Sad, Frustrated, Surprised, Nervous and Shy – in bright colors! These 7" vinyl balls are perfect for all kinds of group ball activities, and are a fun, innovative way to encourage kids to express themselves through play.
Ages: All Ages

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These photo cards provide an ideal framework for students to explore their own feelings, these cards are an excellent resource to promote discussions about emotions. Cards also develop question formulation and predictive skills.
Ages: 4-8

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Players try to escape from Anger Island (and a pursuing dinosaur) by learning one of six anger management techniques, such as self-calming, communicating feelings, and creating compromises. One skill is worked on in each 15-minute segment and activities are suggested for practice between sessions.
Ages: 6-12

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Expressionary! is a game for teens and adults about feelings - what situations bring them up and the many different ways they can be expressed. Whether through words or non-verbally through movement and drawings, Expressionary! makes it easy and fun for players to express their feelings and thoughts.
Ages: 12-17

MANIP-871
Adorable, irresistible, and really useful, these two therapy tools help kids identify feelings, learn empathy, resolve conflict, and communicate more effectively with peers and parents.
Ages: 2 and Up

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Linking emotions and social skills, this game helps kids understand their own feelings and the feelings of others. It’s especially useful with youngsters who are socially awkward, shy, or on the autism spectrum.
Ages: 6-12

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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, and replace negative thinking with positive thinking
Ages: 8 and Up

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A liberating, entertaining activity that teaches 64 feeling words while facilitating individual and group decision-making. Serves as a foundation for developing children's emotional intelligence, empathy, and meaningful, enriching relationships.
Ages: 3 and Up

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Healing Games is a collection of six board games designed to help children who have experienced serious life events that have left them feeling sad, angry, helpless,and even depressed. These experiences include: death of a loved one, traumatic events, and surviving a natural disaster.
Ages: 6-12

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How Would You Feel If... Fun Deck has 56 entertaining cards to help students discuss and/or write about their feelings using a variety of situations. Each card has a colorful illustration with a "How Would You Feel If..." question.
Ages: 6-10

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This delightful game uses fairy tale characters to help players exercise their imaginations, understand their feelings, communicate more effectively, and find creative solutions to their problems.
Ages: 6 and Up

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Our question prompt box gets kids talking about their feelings & ideas…and boosts oral language skills! Simply lift the schoolhouse roof, pull out a card & read the question…then listen as children provide answers to kid-friendly topics—including what they want to be when they grow up, what they did on their last birthday and more!
Ages: 3 and Up

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This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

MANIP-1026
This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

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This feeling-filled, multicultural deck has 28 pairs of cards demonstrating seven basic emotions: happy, sad, surprised, scared, thoughtful, tired, and angry.
Ages:4 and Up

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The storytelling technique is one of the most popular tools in child psychotherapy. Children's self-created stories provide psychotherapists with valuable insights into the conscious and unconscious problems with which their patients are dealing. This game is based on the principle that children are more likely to provide stories in the context of a mildly competitive game in which reward chips and prizes are given.
Ages: 4-11

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This challenging and fun card game covers the important area of stress. Learn to deal with stressful situations, such as shifting friendships, the start of dating, and financial problems at home. The game focuses on rational thinking and problem solving to alleviate stress and anxiety.
Ages:5 and Up

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Game cards feature Angus the anxious terrier struggling to manage stress as his good friend Serena helps him refrain from extremism, catastrophizing, dichotomizing, overgeneralizing, and personalizing situations.
Ages: 8 and Up

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These games are designed to provide a framework of activities and questions for therapeutic group discussions. These eight games deal with frustration management, expression of feelings, friendship skills, safety among strangers, cooperation, divorce, bereavement, and self-concept.
Ages: 5-10

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This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

MANIP-949
This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

MANIP-989
Ergonomically designed for hand & mind wellness bouncy therapy, squeeze therapy and play therapy! Great for anger and stress relief.
Ages: 4 and Up

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This game is a sure way to help children communicate their feelings and develop insight into their problems.
Ages: 6-12

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A psycho-therapeutic game for children. A child's responses while playing the game will reveal the psychological issues that are most important to him or her. Three types of cards offer prompts that will engage the child and, through their responses, reveal directions for therapeutic intervention.
Ages: 4-15

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Covering 25 of the most common topics that concern kids, from anger to values, the activities in this unique workbook can be played as reward-based games.
Ages: 6-10

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Each of these pleasingly squeezable 4-inch balls has 32 facets bearing questions, graphics, or topics. Make up your own rules or follow those provided. The Emotions Mania thumball encourages players to identify and express feelings.
Ages: 4 and Up

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Use Your I's is a board game that teaches children how to express their feelings without jeopardizing the rights of others. Game cards provide realistic situations that provoke emotions such as anger, guilt, humiliation, happiness, and embarrassment. Players learn to verbally describe their feelings to others and explain why they feel the way they do.
Ages:5-10

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Help kids tune in to the physical warning signs of anger.This clever card game introduces kids to these "anger alerts" and teaches 10 easy strategies they can use to calm down and retain their composure.
Ages 7-12

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Better Builders® Emotions feature the magnetic fun of the original ball and rod construction toy, but assembled as 6 dramatic play characters. The faces express 6 distinct emotions to which children can relate: happy, sad, angry, surprised, confused, and scared.
Ages 2 and up

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This game helps teens and adults improve their ability to identify, cope with, and express their anger. Players will be able to: identify effects of anger on health and wellness, increase awareness of managing anger, identify coping outlets, and increase awareness of the role that anger has in people's lives.
Ages: 11 and Up

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Players respond to prompts on this ball around the topic of empathy. They are encouraged to discuss how to stand in someone else's shoes show good listening and make skillful statements to others as they experience any of several emotions. This Thumball offers a fun way for students to discuss the topic of empathy.
Ages-6 and up

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Set of four coloring books designed to help children express themselves and reveal problems or trauma that they may have experienced
Coloring books address different areas of a child's life such as school, family, and self.
Ages: 4 and up

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Recovery..the board game is a playful, share and stare, humbling, happy, healing process! Designed by two recovering individuals (one of them a professional comedian), it combines elements of all the games you enjoyed as a child, the lessons of adulthood and the mistakes you made in between those periods.
Ages: 10 and up

MANIP-1937
Get kids talking about feelings, positive character traits and more—with 100 photo cards that promote social-emotional understanding!
Ages: 3-8

MANIP-1947
The deck is sorted into 5 Coping Styles: Relaxation, Distraction, Movement, Processing, and Sensory. There are so many ways to use the discovery deck: to help kids identify which coping skills work for them, as a visual reminder to use a coping skill, or as a way to find new coping skills to expand their toolbox.
Ages; 4 and up

MANIP-1945
Anger IQ teaches teens and adults the impact of anger on the decision-making process so that they can better control their actions when angry feelings erupt. Questions and prompts encourage players to analyze anger-provoking situations, identify possible consequences of bad decisions, and make good choices.
Ages: 14 and up

MANIP-1963
Take Control of Impulse Control focuses on areas including thinking before you act; recognizing consequences of impulsive behavior; not acting on impulses, especially when angry; using self-talk to help combat impulsive urges; taking responsibility for your actions, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

MANIP-1960
Toss Your Anger focuses on areas including being respectful; using positive self-talk; recognizing consequences; determining the right responses to anger; counting to ten and deep breathing techniques to relieve angry feelings, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

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CBT 123 uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach kids how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected. Great for school counselors, therapists, and other professionals who work with children on anxiety, anger, depression, and coping skills. Includes a link for a free downloadable worksheet to expand its therapeutic value.
Ages 7-16

Feeling stressed? You aren’t alone. Between school, friends, dating, family, and planning for the future, it’s easy for teens to feel stressed out. But research shows that if you learn a few strategies for getting stress under control now, you’ll build the skills you need to deal with problems and difficult feelings in the future. But where do you start?
Ages: 13 years and up

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Our hands-on slider helps children identify how they’re feeling—an important step in regulating and labeling their emotions! The slider features eight labeled faces showing a variety of emotions, plus an easy-to-move pointer.
Ages: 3 and up

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When a child needs to relax and refocus, these cubes offer 12 different soothing activities to choose from, like “Build with blocks,” “Play with dough” and “Dance it out.” Plus, each fun-to-use cube has a helpful illustration kids can follow on their own to calm down independently.
Ages: 3 and up

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Discuss a variety of emotions with this exciting Emotion-oes Board Game for Social Emotional Learning and Collaborative Play. This board game offers a new twist on the long beloved game of dominoes. Encourage children to match the cards as you discuss how to regulate the emotions.
Ages: 4 and up

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Feelings Fair is a new board game specifically designed to give children important skills for (a) recognizing feelings in themselves and others, (b) expressing feelings in a mature way, and (c) handling difficult situations that involve strong or negative feelings
Ages: 7 and up

MANIP-2002
Furious Fred® is an educational board game designed to teach important concepts and practical skills for controlling anger and avoiding violence. Fred is a student who in the past has been quick to get angry and quick to try to get back at others with screaming, threats, pushing, and hitting. Players earn points by giving Fred good advice on how to deal with frustrating and anger provoking situations, both at school and at home.
Ages: 8 and up

MANIP 172
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, Do the Right Thing, Express Yourself, Put Yourself in Someone Else's Place, Trust Your Gut, and Divorce.
Ages: 6-18

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This engaging board game gives therapists a convenient and very focused way to address the needs of children affected by divorce. Using principles of cognitive restructuring and behavioral rehearsal, it helps children develop more realistic and adaptive attitudes about their parents' divorce.
Ages: 8 and Up

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Covers such issues as separation, divorce, natural disasters, remarriage, adoption, moving, foster homes, and more. The set includes six game boards, an instruction manual, and all the materials necessary to play the games.
Ages 6-12.

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These cards are intended to give children the opportunity to express their feelings. Each one is designed to help kids accept the reality of separation and divorce, to cope with stress, to have a positive self-image, to see friends and family as a source of support, and not to blame themselves or anyone else.
Ages: 6 and Up

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Designed for children who are having difficulty adjusting to their parents' divorce, this engaging game lets children deal with problems on their own terms through play. The game was designed to be a tool to help children communicate their feelings about divorce.
Ages: 5-12

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This easy-to-play card game deals with the emotions, anxieties, and concerns of children going through parental separation or divorce. It focuses on many of the problems these children are likely to encounter, allowing them to discuss their feelings in a safe, supportive context.
Ages: 6 and Up

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Half of all children in the U.S. will experience parental divorce before they turn 18. For a child, this experience can be confusing, tumultuous, and depressing. Nobody Asked Me! provides an avenue for children to express and cope with such feelings.
Ages:8-15

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This is one of many important questions raised by The Peace Path, a board game designed for children from violent, abusive or dysfunctional families. This unique game not only teaches alternatives to violent behavior but also addresses the more immediate issue of what the child should do at the moment violence is occurring.
Ages: 6-14

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Children are faced with many challenges when their parents separate or divorce.This upbeat game uses ice cream sundae toppings to teach six important skills kids need to successfully navigate parental separation.
Ages: 6-12

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This card game addresses divorce and is designed to help a counselor, teacher, or parent focus on specific areas that are a concern to children. The card game is intended to help children reveal their concerns and conflicts to an adult who can provide guidance. The cards prompt children to reveal the issues uppermost in their minds.
Ages: 6-12

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These games are designed to provide a framework of activities and questions for therapeutic group discussions. These eight games deal with frustration management, expression of feelings, friendship skills, safety among strangers, cooperation, divorce, bereavement, and self-concept.
Ages: 5-10

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Players will learn to develop new coping skills to help them deal with the common problems that occur after a separation or divorce. As players go around the colorful board they flip their playing pieces upside down. To turn them right side up, they have to learn new coping and communication skills.
Ages: 6-12

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This game was designed by a child psychologist to help children accept the reality of a separation or divorce, to cope with associated stress, to have a positive self-image, and to see friends and family as a source of support. The game helps foster a positive relationship between separated and divorced parents and their children.
Ages: 6 and up

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Set of four coloring books designed to help children express themselves and reveal problems or trauma that they may have experienced
Coloring books address different areas of a child's life such as school, family, and self.
Ages: 4 and up

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Children will exercise their imaginations for hours with this magnetic playset that encourages storytelling, promote problem-solving skills, and build skills in sequencing.
Ages: 3 and up

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Children mix and match our illustrated blocks to create contemporary families—and build eye/hand coordination! Featuring modern styling and a variety of skin tones, the blocks have powerful embedded magnets for no-fail building, making it easy for kids to put together families as unique as their own.
Ages: 3-6

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The deck is sorted into 5 Coping Styles: Relaxation, Distraction, Movement, Processing, and Sensory. There are so many ways to use the discovery deck: to help kids identify which coping skills work for them, as a visual reminder to use a coping skill, or as a way to find new coping skills to expand their toolbox.
Ages; 4 and up

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Where fun intersects learning, a brand-new card game designed to help build diversity, empathy, and understanding through play. The objective of each game is to collect the cards necessary to build as many family collections as possible using age-appropriate strategy and pattern recognition.
Ages: 4 and up

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This interactive card game is developed to help participants stop, think about their options, consider the consequences of their behavior, and ultimately make better personal choices. 75 real-life situation cards explore six relevant areas: Alcohol and Drugs; Family; Managing Anger, Time, and Money; Peer Relations; Personal Health and Responsibility; Rules and Laws.
Ages: 12-18

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This game is designed to help youth and young adults think and act responsibly. Topics include: daily living, education, relationships, school, community substance abuse, employment, and after school activities. Players are asked to identify thinking errors and replace them with accurate thoughts and create positive action plans for themselves, other individuals, and the community as a whole.
Ages: 10 and up

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This game familiarizes children with the situations that often lead to substance use and, through discussion and role playing, teaches them how to successfully refrain from using drugs and alcohol.
Ages: 10 and Up

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Here is a cognitive-behavioral relapse prevention program for adolescents and adults recovering from alcohol and drug abuse. The game systematically prepares them to deal with the many threats to sobriety by identifying subconscious urges to use and countering them with conscious and rational arguments.
Ages: 13 and Up

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Recovery..the board game is a playful, share and stare, humbling, happy, healing process! Designed by two recovering individuals (one of them a professional comedian), it combines elements of all the games you enjoyed as a child, the lessons of adulthood and the mistakes you made in between those periods.
Ages: 10 and up

DEAL EVERYONE IN for fun games that evolve into teachable moments about race, cultural diversity, inclusion and stereotypes. The Happy Family Card Game uses characters of all ages, cultures, ethnicities and genders to convey that families take different forms and observe many customs.

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Sometimes you can learn a lot from negative role models, like the aptly named Blunder family—Becky, Bobby, Brenda, and Billy. As kids help this hilarious foursome improve their manners, they also discover how to show kindness, how to properly introduce oneself, how to be courteous on the phone, and much, much more.
Ages: 5 and Up

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Revolutionary acts for school, friends & home! Performing intentional acts of kindness for family and friends, at school or at home, you can spread guerrilla goodness in your own way and be an important part of changing the world for the better.
Ages: 13-18

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When children possess specific resiliency skills such as insight, a sense of humor, and persistence, they can cope with psychological problems that might otherwise have lifelong effects. This game challenges players to find answers to problems and reduce their stress level.
Ages: 12 and Up

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Kids learn friendship-building skills such as listening, patience, and paying attention, and how to deal with various friendship issues such as teasing, bullies, jealousy, anger, and more.
Ages:5-12

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When children enter a new culture, they often experience fear, anxiety, and stress. Common Ties eases this process by helping children find shared feelings and experiences and accept differences in a non-divisive way.
Ages: 8-12

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Players learn how to stay safe from predators, bullies, scams, and identity theft, as they travel through the exciting, yet dangerous world of the Internet, cell phones, MP3 players, and other wireless devices.
Ages: 8-12

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Players cooperate and help each other as well as answer questions about friendship to win points for themselves. The game also helps shy and socially delayed students explore friendship issues that they would be hesitant to verbalize without the special supportive environment of the game.
Ages: 6-9

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A 24" inflatable ball for grades 4-6 deals with questions relating to daily life including, What should you do if you got locked out of your house?; What should you do if a stranger is following you for a long period of time?
Ages: 9-12

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The purpose of this game is to provide an enjoyable game in the context of which important issues are introduced. A wide variety of issues are focused on: self-esteem, manners, safety, ethics, values, health, consideration for others, interpersonal relations, the value of learning, sympathy, empathy, and competence.
Ages: 4-11

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Players learn: to approach other children and make new friends; to deal with others fairly; to resolve conflicts in a win-win way; to express themselves assertively but not aggressively; to use listening skills; to contribute to groups; and to use humor appropriately.
Ages: 6-12

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This game will help players improve their leadership skills and develop an understanding for the key concepts in becoming a good leader. Good leaders focus on moving the group towards accomplishing their goals and keeping the group members motivated. This games teaches those critical skills.
Ages: 10-14

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Each card presents a basic social concept that children need to learn to get along with family members. The stories help children pay attention to important social cues, to understand the perspective of others, and to respond appropriately in social situations.
Ages: 5-12

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Each card presents a basic social concept that children need to learn to behave appropriately in community settings particularly when peers are present. The stories help children pay attention to important social cues, to understand the perspective of others, and to respond appropriately in social situations.
Ages: 5-12

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As they work together to assemble jigsaw puzzles, players learn five problem-solving strategies: Reframe It; Do Something Different; Picture the Solution; Stop and Think; and Try Kindness. On each turn, a spinner determines which of these strategies players must use to solve thought-provoking problems posed on game cards.
Ages: 7 and Up

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This is a language card game where kids have fun aswering over 1,000 questions! The questions present situations where kids learn to understand sarcasm, state opinions, questioning skills, plus much more. This Mom's Choice Award-Winning game is sure to keep your kids entertained!
Ages: 6 and Up

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Help children maintain calm, focus, and organization throughout the day with Super Duper’s Sensory Diet Game. Children with sensory processing and modulation problems will learn how to feel “just right” as they face various situations at home, at school, and in the community.
Ages: 5 and Up

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Grades 5-8. Based on the popular card game 21, players learn key skills while they try to get as close to 21 as possible without going over. This card game teaches players that resilience is one of the crucial character strengths needed for success in school, sports, career and life in general. By learning from past mistakes instead of allowing failure to take over, players will learn key strategies to persevere creating greater self-esteem and confidence. Players will learn that everyone can acquire new skills and strategies to become more resilient. They will learn how resiliency facilitates meeting goals and challenges as well as specific skills for maintaining the motivation to bounce back after temporary setbacks. These skills are outlined on a color foldout.

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Designed for use with children and adolescents who experience frequent conflict with peers, The Social Conflict Game teaches seven cognitive and behavioral conflict resolution skills to reduce interpersonal antagonism: Recognizing that circumstances are often the source of conflict, Assuming personal responsibility for conflict, Learning the other person's point of view, Disputing beliefs that justify aggression, Thinking ahead about consequences, Using assertive rather than aggressive behavior, Using problem-solving skills, The Social Conflicts Inventory, which comes with the game, tells you which cognitive skills to focus on, and in turn, which of the game's 200+ cards to use.
Ages: 8 and Up

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Social Inferences Fun Deck with Super Duper Secret Decoder has 63 social story cards to help children improve their inference-making skills. Children listen to/read the stories and choose the answer that represents a logical inference.
Ages: 7 and Up

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This game addressing morals, manners, empathy, friendship, and showing and managing emotions, these games encourage discussion among students about proper social behavior as they strive to find the best solution to problems.
Ages: 6-12

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By playing the game, children can master each of the following problem-solving skills: Reframing, Doing Something Different, Remembering Exceptions, and Asking the Magic Question. Children learn to focus on potential solutions to problems by taking decisive action to make things right, instead of dwelling on what's wrong.
Ages: 8-15

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A game to help impulsive children think before they act. In this ever-popular board game, active, impulsive children learn motor control, relaxation skills, how to express their feelings, and how to problem-solve.
Ages: 6-12

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Individuals with developmental disabilities gain independence with these language and reasoning lessons in homemaking, health, money management, entertainment, and government.
Ages: 11-18

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Things People Do is a fun, easy-to-play game that builds expressive language skills and life skills by engaging students in discussions about everyday activities. The game board features 30 full-color illustration of common activities, such as shopping for groceries, brushing teeth, and using a computer.
Ages: All ages

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TopicTalk Conversation Card Game is a fun way to help kids begin a conversation with a specific topic, ask/answer questions about the topic, make comments, and/or maintain the topic for a specific time.
Ages: 7 and Up

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What Do You Say... What Do You Do... At Home? is an imaginative, interactive board game for teaching and reinforcing important home social skills that students need. Students move around the house answering social skills questions. For each correct answer, the student collects a token.
Ages:5-14

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What Do You Say What Do You Do In the Community? is an interactive, open-ended game that builds social and decision-making skills appropriate for a variety of situations.Ages 5-14

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The You & Me Social Skills Board Game Ages 4-12. A cooperative board game that teaches day-to-day social skills and social awareness. Designed to help children become socially aware of the world they live in, as they build the social skills they need in everyday life: helping, sharing, being polite, cooperating, understanding different points of views, listening, following rules, acting assertively, and being a friend.
Ages 6-13

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24 inch inflatable ball deals with questions relating to daily life. What should you do if a stranger is following you for a long period of time? or What would you do if a fire broke out in your house?
Ages-10 and up

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24 inch inflatable ball deals with questions relating to daily life. What should you do if a stranger is following you for a long period of time? or What would you do if a fire broke out in your house?
Ages-6 and up

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Set of four coloring books designed to help children express themselves and reveal problems or trauma that they may have experienced
Coloring books address different areas of a child's life such as school, family, and self.
Ages: 4 and up

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Problem situations clients face every day are represented in these 75 realistic full-color photo scenes. The problems depicted are those found in the home and community along with safety-specific situations.
Ages: All Ages

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The title says it all. This box of activity sheets really is a "treasure chest" for busy counselors seeking new and engaging ways to help children and teens develop academic, social, and life skills.
Ages: 6 and up

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Talk About It is a versatile set of 12 games that facilitate conversation and engage teens. Talk About It includes eight topic decks, suggestions for play, and two dice. Topics include Icebreakers, Values, Family, Friendships, Self-Esteem, Stress, Feelings, and Situations. Talk About It helps clinicians, educators, parents and others build strong relationships with teens in a fun, simple, and low-pressure way!
Ages: 13 and up

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Roll and Resolve focuses on areas including talking it out with friends; being fair to each other; being a good listener; learning to compromise; showing empathy; recognizing when to apologize; learning to forgive; understanding body language.
Ages: 9 and up

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This fun game helps players learn important skills and apply them to common situations. Teaches important lessons like: listening, showing respect, compromise, taking responsibility, knowing when to walk away, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

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Interview Challenge® is an educational board game designed to teach important job interviewing skills. In the game, players compete to give Paula, a fictitious job applicant, the best advice on how to succeed in her interview. In the process of playing the game, players learn eight vital skills for successful interviewing, as well as seven major types of questions and how to answer them.
Ages: 13 and up

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Career Challenge® is a board game specifically designed to help students explore careers that may be good matches for their talents, interests, and work preferences. Players learn important facts about many careers and are encouraged to explore careers about which they previously had no knowledge or interest.
Ages: 13 and up

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Children will learn to deal with feelings, adjust attitudes, discover choices, accept imperfections, and more. Real-life situations are challenging and fun.
Ages 7-12

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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.
Ages: 6-18

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This feeling-filled, multicultural deck has 28 pairs of cards demonstrating seven basic emotions: happy, sad, surprised, scared, thoughtful, tired, and angry.
Ages: 4 and Up

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The Saying Goodbye Game gives grieving children the chance to explore their feelings about death in a safe and supportive environment. The Saying Goodbye Game uses a variety of art therapy techniques to help children open up. Ages: 6-12

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These games are designed to provide a framework of activities and questions for therapeutic group discussions. These eight games deal with frustration management, expression of feelings, friendship skills, safety among strangers, cooperation, divorce, bereavement, and self-concept.
Ages: 5-10

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The deck is sorted into 5 Coping Styles: Relaxation, Distraction, Movement, Processing, and Sensory. There are so many ways to use the discovery deck: to help kids identify which coping skills work for them, as a visual reminder to use a coping skill, or as a way to find new coping skills to expand their toolbox.
Ages; 4 and up

Feeling stressed? You aren’t alone. Between school, friends, dating, family, and planning for the future, it’s easy for teens to feel stressed out. But research shows that if you learn a few strategies for getting stress under control now, you’ll build the skills you need to deal with problems and difficult feelings in the future. But where do you start?
Ages: 13 years and up

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Covers such issues as separation, divorce, natural disasters, remarriage, adoption, moving, foster homes, and more. The set includes six game boards, an instruction manual, and all the materials necessary to play the games.
Ages 6-12.

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Parents' game cards teach reflective listening, helping the child explore alternative solutions to problems, sending clear messages, and punishing and praising the child appropriately. Children's game cards teach assertiveness, acceptance of imperfect parental behavior, and acknowledgement and reciprocity in response to positive parental behavior. Communication game cards are answered jointly by parents and their children and encourage interaction and a chance to practice win/win negotiation.
Ages: 8 and Up

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Children will exercise their imaginations for hours with this magnetic playset that encourages storytelling, promote problem-solving skills, and build skills in sequencing.
Ages: 3 and up

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Children mix and match our illustrated blocks to create contemporary families—and build eye/hand coordination! Featuring modern styling and a variety of skin tones, the blocks have powerful embedded magnets for no-fail building, making it easy for kids to put together families as unique as their own.
Ages: 3-6

DEAL EVERYONE IN for fun games that evolve into teachable moments about race, cultural diversity, inclusion and stereotypes. The Happy Family Card Game uses characters of all ages, cultures, ethnicities and genders to convey that families take different forms and observe many customs.

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Simply add in these one-sentence cards to any popular game to make it therapeutic. There are six different card sets featuring relevant questions about bullying, social skills, self-esteem, anger, character, and staying healthy. In between turns, a child answers a question with an immediate response to keep the game pace going.
Ages: 6 and Up

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Low self-esteem can be a significant factor in a host of childhood problems including depression, underachievement, and behavioral difficulties. The Dinosaur's Journey takes children through the Valley of Values, the Cave of Acceptance, and the Land of Courage.
Ages: 5-12

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This game is designed to help children think about the consequences of their behavior and distinguish good choices from bad ones. The game will also help children practice relaxation and self-control behaviors, learning that they can control their bodies as well as their behavior.
Ages: 6-12

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Study after study tells us that children with a positive, optimistic attitude will be less susceptible to depression and other emotional and behavioral problems. This game teaches children how to identify and change negative thinking, how to recognize the effects of a negative and pessimistic attitude, and how to behave in ways that are more socially appropriate
Ages: 6-12

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Exploring My Self-Esteem is a nonthreatening game that draws on each child's experiences and emotions, revealing for the therapist how children see themselves and how they typically deal with their feelings.
Ages: 5-12

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Sometimes we need a little help to feel good about ourselves, whether it's a compliment from a friend or a kindly gesture from a neighbor. And now there's another source of help: All you have to do is play the Feeling Good game. "Feeling Cards" get players thinking positive thoughts and help them recognize what makes them feel bad. "Doing Cards" give players the opportunity to act out feelings through role playing and drawing.
Ages: 9 and Up

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The purpose of this game is to provide an enjoyable game in the context of which important issues are introduced. A wide variety of issues are focused on: self-esteem, manners, safety, ethics, values, health, consideration for others, interpersonal relations, the value of learning, sympathy, empathy, and competence.
Ages: 4-11

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As players make their way through a maze of roads on the colorful game board, they face a series of questions: Should I take the short route, or the safe but longer route? Is the easy way the best way? Players must choose their routes carefully and anticipate the consequences of their actions.
Ages: 8-15

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This lively card game delivers fast-paced fun while helping kids become aware of their unique and special qualities. Players draw, match, and shed cards, answering questions as they go. (For example: “Would you choose yourself as a friend? Why or why not?”)
Ages: 6-12

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This appealing board game is an great way to engage—and treat—children who are too old for puppets and toys, but too young to express themselves readily in therapy. It improves self-esteem by giving children a clearer, more realistic picture of themselves in five areas: Scholastic Competence; Social Acceptance; Physical Appearance; Athletic Competence; and Behavioral Competence.
Age: 8 and Up

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Focuses on one of the most important topics in classrooms and clinics. Helps players to understand self-esteem Boosters and Busters, the benefits of self-esteem, how to acknowledge their own strengths and how to take responsibility.
Ages: 16 and Up

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This card game addresses shyness and is designed to help a counselor, teacher, or parent focus on specific areas that are a concern to children. The card game is intended to help children reveal their concerns and conflicts to an adult who can provide guidance. The cards prompt children to reveal the issues uppermost in their minds.
Ages: 6-12

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Throw it, catch it, look under your thumb, and react. This pleasingly squeezable, 4-inch ball has 32 facets bearing questions or prompts. Discussions may include identifying what your personal strengths are and when and how to use them to deal with everyday issues. This interactive tool gets kids to open up and talk, easing social conversations and enabling closer relationships.
Ages: 4 and Up

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Use Your I's is a board game that teaches children how to express their feelings without jeopardizing the rights of others. Game cards provide realistic situations that provoke emotions such as anger, guilt, humiliation, happiness, and embarrassment. Players learn to verbally describe their feelings to others and explain why they feel the way they do.
Ages: 5-10

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Set of four coloring books designed to help children express themselves and reveal problems or trauma that they may have experienced
Coloring books address different areas of a child's life such as school, family, and self.
Ages: 4 and up

Imagine your friends telling you, in turn, what they appreciate most about you. This is what this tool does as you experience the construction of a personal Totem reflecting the best of your personality. The Totem is built using an ANIMAL card, associated with one of your strengths, and a QUALITY card, which describes a quality you have. Both cards are chosen and then explained by the other players.

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CBT 123 uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach kids how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected. Great for school counselors, therapists, and other professionals who work with children on anxiety, anger, depression, and coping skills. Includes a link for a free downloadable worksheet to expand its therapeutic value.
Ages 7-16

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"Let's Make Friends" teaches children how to develop relationships with peers in which they feel liked, respected and valued. The main categories of this fun-filled card game contain the most important skills to making and keeping friends.
Ages: 5-10

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Simply add in these one-sentence cards to any popular game to make it therapeutic. There are six different card sets featuring relevant questions about bullying, social skills, self-esteem, anger, character, and staying healthy. In between turns, a child answers a question with an immediate response to keep the game pace going.
Ages: 6 and Up

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Best, Worst, First Thumball stimulates conversations about player's best, worst or first life experiences. Great conversation starter and relationship building activity. Compare and contrast life events with each other. Share stories about best, worst or first memories. This is and easy way to get acquainted. Stimulates interesting recollections and reflective thinking.
Ages: 3 and Up

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Sometimes you can learn a lot from negative role models, like the aptly named Blunder family—Becky, Bobby, Brenda, and Billy. As kids help this hilarious foursome improve their manners, they also discover how to show kindness, how to properly introduce oneself, how to be courteous on the phone, and much, much more.
Ages: 5 and Up

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This board/card game utilizes a baseball diamond format as a visual reminder for not going out of bounds. Players move pawns around the board and answer questions from the 4 card categories: Saying and Accepting "NO"; Managing strong emotions; Respecting personal space and property; and Relationship/Communication limits.
Ages: 6-12

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Caves & Claws is a cooperative, humorous, fantasy game. You are part of a team of archaeologists searching through temples and caves to recover valuable treasures and artifacts. There are pathways built by the players, treasures and dangers, and remedies for the dangers. Cooperation can be fun as the players work to build an accessible path, find the artifacts, and return safely to the tent. Ages: 6 and Up

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Kids learn friendship-building skills such as listening, patience, and paying attention, and how to deal with various friendship issues such as teasing, bullies, jealousy, anger, and more.
Ages:5-12

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Strengthen your students' semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic language skills using these fun and engaging cards. Children love to talk about the dinosaurs, frogs, dogs, cats, and rabbits illustrated in the 5 card decks.
Ages: 4-8

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Difficult Situations Fun Deck helps students discuss how they would react to a variety of stressful situations. Use these 56 illustrated cards to talk about safety, emotions, and different ways of acting in response to events that might occur
Ages 4 and Up

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Double Trouble teaches 16 essential social skills with colorful anime-style illustrations, making it beneficial for readers and nonreaders alike. The object of the game is to be the first player to collect five matching pairs of cards. When a player collects a match, he or she races to give three examples of the social skill shown. Meanwhile, another player tries repeatedly to roll doubles with a pair of dice. The first to achieve his or her objective wins the pair of cards. Children will love this fast-paced card game with a unique, exciting twist. Includes 64 cards, 2 dice, and instructions for two ways to play. For 2 to 4 players.
Ages 5 and up

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Teaching children social skills is an important part of every counseling program, and this game makes it fun and easy. Each player fills out a "Get to Know Me" questionnaire and then must remember important things about the other players in order to advance.
Ages:6-12

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Behavioral problems account for as many as 50% of all referrals to counselors, and games have been shown to be one of the best ways to turn around non-compliant or oppositional kids. This game uses a multi-modal approach to teach new skills, including emotional (affective), behavioral, cognitive, and social skills.
Ages: 6-12

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Give kids an opportunity to walk in someone else's shoes. By playing this lively game of dominoes, students develop the capacity to understand the feelings of others.
Ages: 6-12

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Expressionary! is a game for teens and adults about feelings - what situations bring them up and the many different ways they can be expressed. Whether through words or non-verbally through movement and drawings, Expressionary! makes it easy and fun for players to express their feelings and thoughts.
Ages: 12-17

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This game helps kids get to know each other. The game develops social skills by helping children learn to gather information about others and share information about themselves. Children take turns assuming the role of a reporter, getting to the bottom of a story by using Who, What, When, Where, and How questions to figure out what another player is thinking.Designed for children with Asperger Syndrome in mind.
Ages 6-12.

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Focus On Manners Fun Deck has 60 cards to help students talk about different types of behaviors they may see at school, in the community, and at home.
Ages 5 and Up

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This card deck features 50 popular games printed on colorful cards. Teachers and group leaders will find tips and methods to engage students and learners of all ages in any setting. The fun, low-prep games offer surefire ways to transform a group into a cohesive team, and they are based on the stages of group development and represent a variety of learning styles.
Ages: All Ages

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The purpose of this game is to provide an enjoyable game in the context of which important issues are introduced. A wide variety of issues are focused on: self-esteem, manners, safety, ethics, values, health, consideration for others, interpersonal relations, the value of learning, sympathy, empathy, and competence.
Ages: 4-11

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Learn more about yourself and others with participation in this team building activity. This activity allows adults of all ages to get to know each other.
Ages: 3 and Up

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Players learn: to approach other children and make new friends; to deal with others fairly; to resolve conflicts in a win-win way; to express themselves assertively but not aggressively; to use listening skills; to contribute to groups; and to use humor appropriately.
Ages: 6-12

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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).
Ages: 9-16 years

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This game is designed to help boys learn and reinforce appropriate friendship skills and personal skills focusing on gender-specific examples.
Ages: 8-12

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This game is designed to help girls learn and reinforce appropriate friendship skills and personal skills focusing on gender-specific examples.
Ages: 8-12

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These card games teach basic social concepts that children need to behave appropriately in all kinds of settings. Each card presents a color photograph of a social situation on one side and The Story, The Facts, and Questions on the reverse. The Story explains what is happening in the photo, The Facts quickly list essential details, and Questions encourage discussion.
Ages: 5-12

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Photo Social Story Cards are a tool for teaching social skills to young children. The goal of the cards is to increase a child's understanding of typical social situations and to make him/her more comfortable in the social world. Simple stories, illustrated with concrete photographs, teach children how they are expected to act in typical social situations.
Ages: 5-12

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This is a language card game where kids have fun aswering over 1,000 questions! The questions present situations where kids learn to understand sarcasm, state opinions, questioning skills, plus much more. This Mom's Choice Award-Winning game is sure to keep your kids entertained!
Ages: 6 and Up

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A mystery game! Valuables have been stolen, and we have to find them before midnight. Together we search through the mansion for clues. At midnight, the thieves may slip away with all the hidden booty! Children enjoy figuring out the mystery of what is behind the Secret Door. Because of the cooperative principle, everyone is part of a team that discusses ideas and shares strategies. Other important skills of memory and logic get a workout, too. Each game is different, exciting and tricky. That's why adults like playing along! Get the magnifying glass, Holmes, and let's get on with the Case. Midnight approaches! Includes: 12 x 12" board, clock cards, set of valuables, the secret door.
Ages: 5 and Up

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The Self-Concept Game is an expressive and receptive language card game that targets social skills and reasoning. Students practice skills that are necessary for effective communication and problem solving.
Ages: 6 and Up

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Designed for use with children and adolescents who experience frequent conflict with peers, The Social Conflict Game teaches seven cognitive and behavioral conflict resolution skills to reduce interpersonal antagonism: Recognizing that circumstances are often the source of conflict, Assuming personal responsibility for conflict, Learning the other person's point of view, Disputing beliefs that justify aggression, Thinking ahead about consequences, Using assertive rather than aggressive behavior, Using problem-solving skills. The Social Conflicts Inventory, which comes with the game, tells you which cognitive skills to focus on, and in turn, which of the game's 200+ cards to use.
Ages: 8 and Up

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Social Skills Chipper Chat is a fun, motivating, magnetic chip game designed to help students discuss and understand appropriate ways of dealing with numerous social situations.
Ages: 4-12

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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.
Ages: 8 and Up

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This game addressing morals, manners, empathy, friendship, and showing and managing emotions, these games encourage discussion among students about proper social behavior as they strive to find the best solution to problems.
Ages: 6-12

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Reminding kids that they are in control of what they think and say, this clever matching game focuses on social behavior and communication skills. It is especially useful with children who tend to misread social cues, including those on the autism spectrum. Ages: 6-10

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Thumball is a soft stuffed ball to throw, roll, or pass in a circle or randomly. Catch it! Look under your thumb. Respond to the prompt. Kids absolutely love this interactive tool that will get them talking and sharing. Without even knowing it, you will be encouraging the use of interpersonal skills including taking turns, eye contact, listening, responding, valuing similarities and respecting individual differences. Players are encouraged to discuss interpersonal drama, how it starts, how it can lead to many different kinds of problems for oneself and others, and what they can do to prevent or deal with it.
Ages: 3 and Up

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Lets youngsters express how they feel and what they need with Talk Blocks. Red blocks show 12 different emotions, while green blocks illustrate 12 different needs.
Ages: 3 and up

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Specially designed to get teens talking, this game supports the therapeutic process by addressing cognitive, emotional, and behavioral issues that affect adolescents. Game cards give teens the opportunity to discuss family, friends, feelings, values, dreams, and hopes for the future.
Ages 12 and Up

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These games are designed to provide a framework of activities and questions for therapeutic group discussions. These eight games deal with frustration management, expression of feelings, friendship skills, safety among strangers, cooperation, divorce, bereavement, and self-concept.
Ages: 5-10

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The Ungame is the most popular communication game ever made and is used in tens of thousands of homes, schools, and counseling settings. Players go around the board answering both light-hearted and serious questions. Players also land on squares that require they ask questions of another player or make comments about any subject at all.
Ages: 5 and up

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This card game is designed to simulate a standard 52-card deck - with a twist! Instead of numbered cards, there are 13 different children; instead of the four traditional suits, there are four social skills areas (Having Fun, Inviting a Friend, Talking, and Solving a Problem). As children play the game, they make up stories that demonstrate social awareness using the 13 different character cards.
Ages: 2-4

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Throw it, catch it, look under your thumb, and react. This pleasingly squeezable, 4-inch ball has 32 facets bearing questions or prompts. Discussions may include identifying what your personal strengths are and when and how to use them to deal with everyday issues. This interactive tool gets kids to open up and talk, easing social conversations and enabling closer relationships.
Ages: 4 and Up

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People communicate using not only words, but also tone of voice and body language. Many children, however, fail to notice these relatively subtle social cues. This game teaches children to pay attention to tone of voice, observe body language, and note how these cues affect the message.
Ages: 5-12

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Webber Photo Cards-Social Issues contains 262 large color photo cards to encourage individual or group discussions about important social issues that impact our daily lives. This set is ideal for anyone working with students or adults that need high level, interesting subjects to write about and discuss. The back of each card has a definition of the topic, three facts about the topic, and five open-ended questions that require more than a yes or "no answer.
Ages: 12 and Up

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If a child hasn't learned the rules of social language, interacting with other peers and adults is not always easy. With these four decks of Pragmatics Playing Cards, children will master these rules and discover ways to manage challenging social situations.
Ages: 8 and Up

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What Do You Say....What Do You Do...At School? is a game for teaching and reinforcing important social skills that children need for successful interaction with their peers, teachers, and parents. The social situation cards in the game target reasoning, inferencing, pragmatic, narrative, and conversational skills.
Ages: 5 and Up

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Miranda Peabody needs your help!! Help her solve problems using important social skills. Children will learn to verbally explain and physically demonstrate the important skills they need to get along with others, be a kind and compassionate person, and make friends more easily. Ages: 8-12

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Students role-play and practice what to say in social interactions and engage in short conversations with this language-based game for social skills.
Ages: 12-16

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Each of these pleasingly squeezable 4-inch balls has 32 facets bearing questions, graphics, or topics. Make up your own rules or follow those provided. The Who Are You? ball stimulates social conversation and closer relationships
Ages: 4 and Up

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Teaches children that when they act responsibly, they feel good about themselves. This entertaining game encourages children to make responsible choices in their everyday lives. The players must figure out who is performing mysterious acts of kindness in their school.
Ages:7-12

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Designed to help children become socially aware of the world they live in, as they build the social skills they need in everyday life: helping, sharing, being polite, cooperating, understanding different points of views, listening, following rules, acting assertively, and being a friend.
Ages: 4-12

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Many kids are unaware of the socially accepted physical boundaries that most of us take for granted. This game helps them learn what’s “too close,” “too far,” or “just right” in various social situations.
Ages 5-12

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The You & Me Social Skills Board Game Ages 4-12. A cooperative board game that teaches day-to-day social skills and social awareness. Designed to help children become socially aware of the world they live in, as they build the social skills they need in everyday life: helping, sharing, being polite, cooperating, understanding different points of views, listening, following rules, acting assertively, and being a friend.
Ages 6-13

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This interactive card game helps students learn to stop and think about their actions; consider the consequences of their behavior; and ultimately make better personal choices. Contains 75 real-life situation cards that explore six areas that are challenging for teens: alcohol and drugs; family issues; managing anger, time, and money; peer relations; personal health and responsibility; and rules and laws.
Ages: 10 and up

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Clue Cards help children and teens learn to perceive and understand the “details” of social presentation. An informative instruction booklet offers clear guidelines for using these 5 card decks: Get a Clue—Children find “clues” in 15 social situations and make inferences based on those clues., Faces and Feelings—Using 40 cards, children link expressions with associated emotions., Body Language—Matching photos and captions, children explore body language for clues about thoughts and feelings., The 5 W’s—Children analyze 10 social scenes by asking “who-what-where-when-why” questions., In Other Words—Kids learn 30 idioms and 26 proverbs that often pop up in social conversation.
Ages : 6 and up

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Problem situations clients face every day are represented in these 75 realistic full-color photo scenes. The problems depicted are those found in the home and community along with safety-specific situations.
Ages: All Ages

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Improve the basic social skills of young children or children with special needs with Key Education's Social Skills mini file folder games. The games and learning activities are perfect for centers and learning stations. They will help with targeted remediation, social problem solving, and the recognition and management of emotions.
Ages: 4 and up

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The title says it all. This box of activity sheets really is a "treasure chest" for busy counselors seeking new and engaging ways to help children and teens develop academic, social, and life skills.
Ages: 6 and up

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'What the Heck Does That Mean?!' is a card game used for teaching idioms to students.
Ages: 6 and up

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Get kids talking about feelings, positive character traits and more—with 100 photo cards that promote social-emotional understanding!
Ages: 3-8

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The deck is sorted into 5 Coping Styles: Relaxation, Distraction, Movement, Processing, and Sensory. There are so many ways to use the discovery deck: to help kids identify which coping skills work for them, as a visual reminder to use a coping skill, or as a way to find new coping skills to expand their toolbox.
Ages; 4 and up

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Talk About It is a versatile set of 12 games that facilitate conversation and engage teens. Talk About It includes eight topic decks, suggestions for play, and two dice. Topics include Icebreakers, Values, Family, Friendships, Self-Esteem, Stress, Feelings, and Situations. Talk About It helps clinicians, educators, parents and others build strong relationships with teens in a fun, simple, and low-pressure way!
Ages: 13 and up

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Toss Your Anger focuses on areas including being respectful; using positive self-talk; recognizing consequences; determining the right responses to anger; counting to ten and deep breathing techniques to relieve angry feelings, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

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This fun game helps players learn important skills and apply them to common situations. Teaches important lessons like: listening, showing respect, compromise, taking responsibility, knowing when to walk away, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

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These large, durable color cards are perfect for more literal-minded students or clients. They use photographs, not drawings, to represent a full range of emotions, making it easier for some people to recognize the feeling represented on the card when they see it in the real world.
Ages: All ages

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Learning cards are a wonderful way to build language, encourage vocabulary development, and increase reading skills. The Facial Expressions set includes 45 cards (4.25” x 5.5” each), including photographs of facial expressions.
Ages: 4-7

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Linking emotions and social skills, this game helps kids understand their own feelings and the feelings of others. It’s especially useful with youngsters who are socially awkward, shy, or on the autism spectrum.
Ages: 6-12

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This game helps kids get to know each other. The game develops social skills by helping children learn to gather information about others and share information about themselves. Children take turns assuming the role of a reporter, getting to the bottom of a story by using Who, What, When, Where, and How questions to figure out what another player is thinking.Designed for children with Asperger Syndrome in mind.
Ages 6-12.

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The simple game boards and basic Topic Cards in MagneTalk Turns & Topics are specifically for children with ASDs. The targeted games allow students to have fun and increase their concentration skills gradually while they learn basic game playing and communication skills.
Ages: 4 and up

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This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

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This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

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Help your clients manage their stuttering, increase awareness and change in attitudes and feelings about stuttering, and develop strategies for dealing with daily challenges using a game-board approach to treatment.
Ages: All Ages

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This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

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This magical manipulative relieves stress, helps kids focus, provides sensory stimulation, reduces classroom behavior problems, and makes it easier for people to express their feelings.
Ages: 6 and Up

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People communicate using not only words, but also tone of voice and body language. Many children, however, fail to notice these relatively subtle social cues. This game teaches children to pay attention to tone of voice, observe body language, and note how these cues affect the message.
Ages:5-12

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Great for kids with Asperger's syndrome or those who have difficulty with reading emotions. This game is designed to introduce children to several aspects of understanding facial expressions, including two key concepts: Different facial expressions are associated with different feelings, different people may have different facial reactions to the same situation.
Ages:6-12

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Making good decisions is no problem with this lotto game. Webber Problem Solving Photo Lotto improves reasoning, inferencing, sequencing, and semantic skills—the essential components of logical thinking and the building blocks students need before they can advance to higher-level, abstract problem-solving. Students match photos on their lotto boards with the answers to problem-solving questions on the 192 game cards. Full-color photos make this lotto game appropriate for students with autism, learning disabilities, specific language impairments, attention deficits, and auditory-processing disorders.
Ages: 6 and Up

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Many children have a hard time reading body language. This game is designed to aid in teaching children to be aware of their body language and the body language of others. It introduces children to several aspects of understanding body language. This product is also part of the Social Skills/Asperger's Syndrome Game Set.
Ages:6-12

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Players have a great time as they practice and improve their ability to stay focused, even with distractions!, Players earn rewards while problem solving with puzzles, words, and lists.
Ages 6-18

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Better Builders® Emotions feature the magnetic fun of the original ball and rod construction toy, but assembled as 6 dramatic play characters. The faces express 6 distinct emotions to which children can relate: happy, sad, angry, surprised, confused, and scared.
Ages 2 and up

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'What the Heck Does That Mean?!' is a card game used for teaching idioms to students.
Ages: 6 and up

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Get kids talking about feelings, positive character traits and more—with 100 photo cards that promote social-emotional understanding!
Ages: 3-8

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Our hands-on slider helps children identify how they’re feeling—an important step in regulating and labeling their emotions! The slider features eight labeled faces showing a variety of emotions, plus an easy-to-move pointer.
Ages: 3 and up

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Discuss a variety of emotions with this exciting Emotion-oes Board Game for Social Emotional Learning and Collaborative Play. This board game offers a new twist on the long beloved game of dominoes. Encourage children to match the cards as you discuss how to regulate the emotions.
Ages: 4 and up

Survivors Journey is therapeutic game for working with survivors of sexual abuse. Players move around the board and land on a variety of spaces that include situational questions, family related questions, general questions about sexual abuse, and positive self statements. Includes two different levels of game play, a children's version and a teen/adult version.
Ages: 8 and Up

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This set includes a pregnant mother doll (birthing and nursing) as well as other anatomically correct dolls used for counseling purposes.
All Ages

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Recovery..the board game is a playful, share and stare, humbling, happy, healing process! Designed by two recovering individuals (one of them a professional comedian), it combines elements of all the games you enjoyed as a child, the lessons of adulthood and the mistakes you made in between those periods.
Ages: 10 and up

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Role-play your way to better understanding of personal space! Many kids, especially those with ADHD, autism, or Asperger's, are unaware of the socially accepted physical boundaries that most of us take for granted. This game helps them learn what's too close, too far, or just right in various social situations.
Ages: 5 and up

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What Do You Know? is a bilingual therapeutic card game about child sexual & physical abuse and domestic violence. A wonderful tool to be used in many different ways to help children and their families open up about child abuse.
Ages : 6 and up

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This interactive card game is developed to help participants stop, think about their options, consider the consequences of their behavior, and ultimately make better personal choices. 75 real-life situation cards explore six relevant areas: Alcohol and Drugs; Family; Managing Anger, Time, and Money; Peer Relations; Personal Health and Responsibility; Rules and Laws.
Ages: Adult

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This interactive card game is developed to help participants stop, think about their options, consider the consequences of their behavior, and ultimately make better personal choices. 75 real-life situation cards explore six relevant areas: Alcohol and Drugs; Family; Managing Anger, Time, and Money; Peer Relations; Personal Health and Responsibility; Rules and Laws.
Ages: 12-18

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Baby Smarts gives the opportunity to discuss sex and its consequences, including: facts versus myths about pregnancy, the female reproductive system, sexually transmitted diseases, health, safe-sex practices, and the consequences of unsafe sexual behavior. Above all, it introduces them to the various responsibilities of parenthood.
Ages: 12 and Up

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Best, Worst, First Thumball stimulates conversations about player's best, worst or first life experiences. Great conversation starter and relationship building activity. Compare and contrast life events with each other. Share stories about best, worst or first memories. This is and easy way to get acquainted. Stimulates interesting recollections and reflective thinking.
Ages: 3 and Up

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This engaging game encourages those recovering from mental illness to recognize stressors and warning signs of negative symptoms, and identify specific coping strategies and behaviors that reduce stress and encourage wellness.
Ages: 13 and up

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Difficult Situations Fun Deck helps students discuss how they would react to a variety of stressful situations.Use these 56 illustrated cards to talk about safety, emotions, and different ways of acting in response to events that might occur.
Ages: 4 and Up

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This fun-filled card game teaches children how to handle stress using well-researched stress reduction techniques that include: deep breathing and muscle relaxation, visualization, self-talk, and creating a healthy lifestyle. The bonus activities challenge players to practice their newly learned skills.
Ages: 6-12

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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
Ages: 12-18

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This game is designed to help youth and young adults think and act responsibly. Topics include: daily living, education, relationships, school, community substance abuse, employment, and after school activities. Players are asked to identify thinking errors and replace them with accurate thoughts and create positive action plans for themselves, other individuals, and the community as a whole.
Ages: 10 and up

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Expressionary! is a game for teens and adults about feelings - what situations bring them up and the many different ways they can be expressed. Whether through words or non-verbally through movement and drawings, Expressionary! makes it easy and fun for players to express their feelings and thoughts.
Ages: 12-17

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As players follow "Randy" on his job and in his personal life, they earn money by giving him good advice about frustrating and anger-provoking situations. In the process, they learn self skills, thinking skills, and people skills, which they use to help Randy stay calm, make smart decisions, and prepare for difficult situations.
Ages: 8 and up

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Learn more about yourself and others with participation in this team building activity. This activity allows adults of all ages to get to know each other.
Ages: 3 and Up

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Focuses on one of the most important topics in classrooms and clinics. Helps players to understand self-esteem Boosters and Busters, the benefits of self-esteem, how to acknowledge their own strengths and how to take responsibility.
Ages: 16 and Up

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It's important for teenagers to learn to express themselves in ways that are socially acceptable, no matter what kind of feelings they are experiencing. Sticks and Stones is a board game that teaches adolescents facts about—and alternatives to—anger and violence.
Ages: 13-18

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Specially designed to get teens talking, this game supports the therapeutic process by addressing cognitive, emotional, and behavioral issues that affect adolescents. Game cards give teens the opportunity to discuss family, friends, feelings, values, dreams, and hopes for the future.
Ages 12 and Up

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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.
Ages:13 and Up

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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
Ages: 6 and up

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Recovery..the board game is a playful, share and stare, humbling, happy, healing process! Designed by two recovering individuals (one of them a professional comedian), it combines elements of all the games you enjoyed as a child, the lessons of adulthood and the mistakes you made in between those periods.
Ages: 10 and up

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Encourage teens to open up with this fun game! Gives teens the opportunity to discuss family, friends, feelings, values, dreams, and hopes for the future. It poses thought-provoking and imaginative questions to help engage anyone
Ages: 8 and up

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Talk About It is a versatile set of 12 games that facilitate conversation and engage teens. Talk About It includes eight topic decks, suggestions for play, and two dice. Topics include Icebreakers, Values, Family, Friendships, Self-Esteem, Stress, Feelings, and Situations. Talk About It helps clinicians, educators, parents and others build strong relationships with teens in a fun, simple, and low-pressure way!
Ages: 13 and up

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Take Control of Impulse Control focuses on areas including thinking before you act; recognizing consequences of impulsive behavior; not acting on impulses, especially when angry; using self-talk to help combat impulsive urges; taking responsibility for your actions, and more!
Ages: 9 and up

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Career Challenge® is a board game specifically designed to help students explore careers that may be good matches for their talents, interests, and work preferences. Players learn important facts about many careers and are encouraged to explore careers about which they previously had no knowledge or interest.
Ages: 13 and up

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Interview Challenge® is an educational board game designed to teach important job interviewing skills. In the game, players compete to give Paula, a fictitious job applicant, the best advice on how to succeed in her interview. In the process of playing the game, players learn eight vital skills for successful interviewing, as well as seven major types of questions and how to answer them.
Ages: 13 and up

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CBT 123 uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach kids how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected. Great for school counselors, therapists, and other professionals who work with children on anxiety, anger, depression, and coping skills. Includes a link for a free downloadable worksheet to expand its therapeutic value.
Ages 7-16