Courage to Change

Actions & Consequences by Estelle A. Leutenburg, Kathy L. Khalsa OTR/L Designed to help participants stop, think about options, consider the outcome, and make better choices. Cards include 75 real-life situations that explore common issues for adults and teens. Topics for adults include: Anger, Money, Personal Health, Recovery, Relationships & Communication, and Responsibilities. Topics for teens include: Alcohol & Drugs, Family, Managing Anger, Time, Stress, Money, Peer Relations, Personal Health & Responsibility, and Rules & Laws. Click for ordering information		Expressionary Game A Guessing Game Using Words, Movement, and Sketches by Amanda Gissel, MA Designed to enhance verbal and nonverbal communication skills. Players augment their emotional vocabulary, recognize the complexities and abstract nature of emotions, think about feeling words, and examine the relationship between their feelings and the feelings of others. Can be played in therapeutic, educational, or recreational setting. (Ages 11-Adult.) ©2005 Click for ordering information

The Talking, Feeling, & Doing Game & Book by Richard A. Gardner Ph.D. One of the most popular tools used in child psychotherapy, this game helps therapists to learn more about their child patient’s psychological processes in a non-threatening way. Using a familiar board game format, children are immediately comfortable playing this friendly and enjoyable game, and generally unaware that they are revealing things about themselves that might otherwise cause pain, anxiety, shame or guilt. For 2 to 5 players. The Talking, Feeling, & Doing Book is filled with vignettes on how the game can be used with various childhood disorders. In addition the book includes discussions on other popular projective techniques. Intended for use by professional counselors. (Ages 4 to 15.) Click for ordering information		True Friends & Real Friends Designed to give students the knowledge and skills they need to successfully navigate the world of cliques, shifting relationships, stressful social situation s, and negative peer pressure. Students learn to be real friends, resist the temptation to be a cookie cutter mold of the popular boy or girl, and deal with a wide range of social dilemmas they commonly face in school. ©2005 Click for ordering information

The Understanding Faces Game Great for kids with Asperger’s Syndrome or those who have difficulty with the reading of emotions. This game comes with 50 colorful pictures of children with different facial expressions. Players pick a Feelings Card and try to match the feeling on the card to the closest expression. Correct answers advance on the board. Prompts kids to do fun stunts that express a variety of facial emotions. For 4-12 players (Age 6-12) ©2006 Click for ordering information		The Coping Game A Recovery Game for Mental Health by Michael O’Leary 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. The game reinforces healthy lifestyles with the use of humor and peer interaction. As players move along the path they may be directed to emergency services, the doctor’s office, drug & alcohol rehab, a support group, or nature walk. Comes with five 35-card decks dealing with: recovery questions, healthy choices, creative coping, warning signs, and stress overload. (Ages Teen-Adult.). ©2005 Click for ordering information