Behavior and Counseling Resources for Free Categories:
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Table of Contents
Behavior Management/Behavior Modification
Emotional Control
Cognitive-Behavioral- teach thinking skills for emotional control
Executive Skills- teaching brain skills for organizing goal-oriented behavior
Autism/Aspergers
Power in Relationships
Workshop Handouts & Workshops
Counseling Strategies
Misc.- Gifted Child, Bullies, Care for the Caregiver, Creating motivation, Sibling Rivalry
See my Blog on this site for more ADHD, ODD, AUTISM, Gifted, Emotional Control, IEP Goals, Counseling Technique articles, clicking on the hyperlinks in this sentence will take you to a category page listing related text with more strategies and resources.
This free opt-in to subscribe mini-course will help you teach self-control, valuable thinking skills, and a way to create dreams and motivation. It also shows me telling kids how not to give away their power to feel ok to someone else or a situation; a way to stay cool when you get teased or things don’t go your way.
Now also available is the free mini-course, Behavior Management Tips and Tools Giveaway, an educational and resource program that helps define where oppositional-defiant behavior comes from, effective ways to manage the conflicts, and powerful tricks for managing difficult behaviors effectively. Sign up by clicking here.
Telemedicine- If you think you need more help than what you find here, Virtual online counseling and psychological services now available here: https://www.bradmasoncounselor.com/
Help Kids in Times of Crisis- Coronavirus Kid Care Kit. Children with special needs and behavior problems stuck at home without structure can push their parents to the edge. Includes caregiver stress inventory and self-care advice, how to talk to kids about crisis, managing screen time, structuring time and behavior management to facilitatate schooling and minimize disruptions at home, and a menu of offline at-home activities. Parents who need more detailed how-to streamed video course instructions indexed and broken down into small steps with quiz questions and supporting documents and templates will also find the coupon code “covid” they can apply to ebooks or the courses for 50% off bringing the course price down to $13.50. Courses Link
Click on the link below to get a pdf of what you want.
Behavior Management/Behavior Modification:
Behavior rating chart- structures feedback so it’s quick, easy, and positive, establishes goals
Behavior Management Tricks and Treats- fun strategies you may not have thought of
bip (Behavior Intervention Plan form)
Words of Appreciation and Gratitude- phrases for encouraging and recognizing positive behaviors
Rules and Expectations- template for clarifying what they should do at home
Praise Ways Fun ways to reward behavior that don’t require tangibles or things you have to buy.
Teaching Responsibility and Independence- Telling vs Asking
https://intensivecareforyou.com/inconsistency-powerful-motivator-behavior-management/
Emotional Control
How to Talk to Kids in Crisis- Developmentally Appropriate Ways of Reassuring Kids by Age Groups
Help Kids in Times of Crisis- Coronavirus Kid Care Kit
Building Confidence- confidence and self-esteem provide a buffer for failures and disappointment
Progressive Muscle Relaxation Script video– Wound up too tight? Here’s how to let it out
Meditations- Six quick and easy strategies for the literal and beginner with instructions
Self-esteem Additional Content
Stress Triggers- use this menu to develop awareness of triggers and opportunities to prepare
Stress signs- menu to help recognize when stress is beginning before it’s too late!
Stress Management Strategies- have them highlight what they think would work for them
TNChandout 9/17/21
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1-5 scale- used to establish the idea of gradations, emotional vocabulary, awareness, and tools
Mass Shootings- Consoling Through Times of Terror
Accountability Sheet- use this to help get kids to use their coping strategies
Anxiety Additional Notes and Content in Text
Affirmations to Calm Fears- mantras that can be memorized to thwart panic
resources for anxiety video course- list of further readings and research from my video course
My Tools for Feelings copy w menu You can have a child highlight coping skills they are willing to try and practice them. For younger kids and those on the spectrum, you might want to have them pick images from google images to represent the strategies to use as a reminder when they look like they are in trouble. For more insight on high-functioning Autism, check out my book Autism Asperger: Understanding from the Inside Out.
Cognitive-Behavioral (Teaching thinking skills for emotional control, anxiety, depression symptom management)
garden_of_the_mind– metaphor for explaining the power of thought and where feelings come from
Rational vs Irrational Thoughts Practice- which thoughts are true? Thought change= feeling change
Thinking Errors- categories of thoughts that are inaccurate and cause distress
Dream Book Video- The dream book is a way to identify and clarify goals, develop motivation
Dream Book small file- explanation of dream book strategy in text
Executive Skills- developing brain skills that organize behavior in pursuit of a goal
executive functions- what are they?
EXECUTIVE Function Remediation strategies
Working Memory Remediation-here’s a way you can expand short-term memory in a short amount of time
Autism/Aspergers
Autism Organizations Updated 9-21-17 Includes organizations for Aspergers and adults.
Games Here are some games from my social skills video for children aged 4-8
Getting Started with a Social Skills Group
Perseveration Station- caught in a loop? How to interrupt and get out
Power in Relationships
Exercise- Oppressive or LIberative? What kind of power do you use on your children?
Enerdrains and Energizers- Balance Your Power
Exercise- What do you want that you don’t have now?
Defective and Effective Communication Patterns
Power in Adult-child Relationships mini-course:
Below is what you should be getting in this mini-course:
- Today: Empowering or Controlling?
- Day 2: How much power do you give them, and how do you handle arguing/disagreements?
- Day 3: How do you shut down and ignore to protect yourself from your children?
- Day 4: What would you like your children to remember about you?
- Day 5: Do you use your power to oppress or liberate?
- Day 6: Resources to deepen and broaden parenting skills and knowledge
- Day 7: Power-up phrases to use with kids
- Day 8: More reading for you, articles and topics of special interest to help children
Everybody wants to know what is going on with kids these days. Why are so many becoming oppositional and disrespectful to parents and teachers? Do kids have the right to say NO? What rights do they have? What power do they have other than to say NO? Has something changed that makes them feel as if they have no power, or all the power now? What about the impact of technology and the spread of ideas about human rights and abuse of those rights, the way governments and dictators can systematically abuse a population of people? Click here to sign up.
Balancing Power in Adult Relationships free course
Workshop Handouts & Workshops
You can also book me for a workshop.
My practice website: http://www.bradmasoncounselor.com/
TASP 2020 Counseling Tools Index
TASP 2020 Related Service Counseling Handouts
Texas Counseling Assoc. Handout Index
Texas Counseling Assoc. 2017 handout
Counseling Strategies
More counseling:evaluation techniques Find yourself counseling strategies you haven’t tried before.
Stumped? Use this when you hit an impasse trying to counsel a kid
Or, order your copy of Counseling Tools for Kids in Schools, a pdf book that explains strategies and has tons of ready-set-go printable forms and templates for you to put to work immediately.
Misc.- Gifted Child, Bullies, Care for the Caregiver, Creating Motivation, Sibling Rivalry
caregiver-stress-inventory Sometimes we forget to address the needs of the caregiver. Use this to identify needs.
how-can-a-caregiver-care-for-themselves
video game safety tools for keeping kids safe online
Pros and Cons of Digital Media and Human Development
Self-esteem Additional Content
Dream Book Video- the Dream Book is a fun way to establish clear goals and create motivation
Your Story click here to sign up for the free course described briefly below
Get out of your rut
Use this only if you want to be a hero
Our stories about ourselves, our children, and our lives are very powerful. They inform us about how to think, feel, and act. They tell us what we can and can not do. We tell our stories to others who will listen and agree with our story. If they didn’t agree, or offered another explanation, it is as if they are denying us our reality, the one we are invested in, perhaps the one that explains why we have no power to be different, to feel different, to think and act differently to get a new outcome. So we tend to seek those who agree with us, and become angry with those who do not, denying their message and our own power for change. This is tribal power. This is how we maintain our “illness.”
Become the hero you were meant to be. Give it a click.
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Workshops
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My practice website: http://www.bradmasoncounselor.com/
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I want to create healthy happy life
It can be hard to work with a mind that keeps going to the problems and worries. It's time to teach children their power over thoughts and feelings.
I would like teachable exercises for; replacing thoughts that are not helpful, reasonable, or true, creating joy and emotional resilience, Mindgarden metaphor illustrating power and choice in thoughts, Dream Book strategy for identifying clear goals and building motivation, a video explaining how NOT to let others or situations have the power to bring you down!