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Rethink, Reassess, Relabel: How to Use Reframing to Appreciate the Moment
Free reframing exercise to help kids harness the power of happiness!
Reframing is a useful skill that can turn tricky and frustrating situations into something more positive. Maureen Healy provides free resources for kids to practice finding a silver lining.
10 Books to Celebrate Educators During Teacher Appreciation Week
Celebrate the teachers in your life by giving them books they will enjoy both inside and outside the classroom.
Join PESI Publishing in celebrating educators with this list of 10 books that teachers are sure to enjoy both inside and outside the classroom.
Helping Kids Face Fear and Anxiety Head-On
Age-appropriate worksheets to help kids develop coping strategies & build resilience
Help educate children about anxiety, empowering them with awareness while opening the conversation to help normalize their experience with these age-specific worksheets from PESI author Christina Furnival, MS, LPCC!
Excavating Hard Things
Free trauma-informed play therapy intervention
When a child is experiencing the intrusive or avoidance symptoms of PTSD, building a coherent narrative becomes essential to treatment. Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-S, demonstrates an exercise designed to help children verbalize their big emotions.
PESI Celebrates Children’s Book Day!: Top 5 Books for Children’s Social-Emotional Learning
Children’s books can do so much more than entertain young readers! Check out PESI’s top picks for International Children’s Book Day with these five incredible titles.
Looking on the Bright Side: Using Optimism to Create Happiness
Help kids practice optimism with a FREE worksheet download
Kids will inevitably be faced with challenging moments. Help them harness the power of an optimistic mindset with free resources from PESI author Maureen Healy.
Havening for Kids: 2 Powerful Stress-Busting Tools
Advice and video demonstration from Dr. Kate Truitt
Whether they're experiencing hyperarousal or hypoarousal, kids often need the help of a caregiver to return to a more calm, alert state. Dr. Kate Truitt shares two simple but effective techniques to help kids cope with stress and stay regulated.
5 Tips to Prevent & Minimize the Impact of Bullying
Expert advice from therapists, moms, and children's book authors
PESI authors Christina Furnival and Andrea Dorn share their five strategies to help children develop social-emotional skills, recognize unhealthy friendships, and set boundaries with their peers.
Making the Most Informed Choice: The SODAS Problem-Solving Model
Free exercise to aid young clients in decision making
Help young clients make healthy choices with this simple problem-solving paradigm! PESI author David Pratt presents a step-by-step way to identify options, consider advantages and disadvantages, and select a course of action.
Ask a Therapist: I Think I’ve Made My Child a Tattletale
How to empower children to utilize age-appropriate problem solving skills
Mother, therapist, and children’s book author Christina Furnival, MS, LPCC, provides guidance on how to turn a child’s unchecked tattling into autonomous problem-solving.