Curated OER
Kids Health: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
This article from Family Doctor.org gives details on individuals who encounter the same painful events, but their reactions are different. Read this article to find out more about this disorder and how people can find help. Links to...
Understood For All
Understood.org: Trouble With Self Regulation: What You Need to Know
Self-regulation skills develop gradually, and there are ways to help your child improve. This article discusses working on self-awareness, impulse control, and goal-setting to help your child learn to self-regulate.
PBS
Pbs: Simple Games That Explore Feelings
Identify and explore a wide range of human emotions and then participate in a classroom parade dramatizing emotions through body movements and facial expressions.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Feeling Angry
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart describing different strategies for dealing with anger. Provides ideas for discussions on how we deal with anger and what we can do to control it.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Teasing Is Tough
Get your children to talk about how it feels to be teased. Work together to create coping strategies.
Other
Psych Page: Defenses
This resource presents a terms list of psychological defenses, including withdrawal, displacement, sublimation, and projection, with definitions and typical manifestations.
Other
Hospice Net
This site is dedicated to educating individuals how to help adolescents and children cope with difficult situations involving feelings of depression. These articles offer good advice for helping children in need.
Other
Grief: Getting Over the Death of Someone Close to You
Getting over the loss of someone close to you if a difficult process. This site provides resources for adolescents who have recently experienced such a loss and helps to lead them through this process in the healthiest manner possible.
Other
May Institute: Helping Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Adjust to Change
This article contains several strategies to help students adjust to change. This article is targeted to those who work with autistic students but the strategies are appropriate for all students who struggle with changes and transitions.
Curated OER
Kids Health: What to Do When You Don't Like School
Not everyone enjoys going to school, but we all have to go. If you or a friend are having a hard time at school, these tips and explanations may be just the thing to turn school into something you enjoy. You have to be there, you may as...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Figuring Out Phobias
A phobia is "an extremely strong fear of a situation or thing." Phobias don't just last a few minutes, they are fears that stay with you. A kid who has a phobia of dogs will go out of his way to avoid any situation that involves his...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Nightmares
Have you ever had a bad dream? Most people have had nightmares and they can be pretty scary. Read on to find out more about what nightmares are and some ways you can try to stop them.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Being Afraid
Everyone is afraid of something. Maybe you're afraid of heights, your friend might be scared of the big monster that lives in his closet, and your little sister is spooked by circus clowns. We all have different fears, and they may even...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Back to School Planner and Checklist
Get ready to go back to school with PBS Kids! Help students plan their first week of school, identify new routines, and prepare for the year ahead with these printables.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Dealing With Disappointment
Children learn ways of dealing with feelings after being disappointed through simple exercises and tips, as well as questions for discussion and writing prompts. Includes ideas for home assignments and notes for parents.
Curated OER
Kidshealth: Teaching Your Child Self Control
In order for a child to be successful some degree of self control is necessary. This site looks at how children can develop self control and how an adult should react if a child is demonstrates a lack of control.
Committee for Children
Second Step: Grade 1: Lesson 15: Self Talk for Calming Down
In this Second Step lesson, 1st graders will learn how to use "self-talk" to help themselves calm down when they are upset.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Definition of Cool
Talk with your children about what it means to be cool. Encourage them to realize that being cool means feeling good about your actions and yourself.
Other
Pbis World: Teach Coping Skills
This resource from PBIS provides reasons for teaching coping skills, when to teach coping skills, and how to teach coping skills. Numerous references are provided to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.
Other
Do2learn.com: The Feelings Game
For this game, you are presented with several photographs and must choose the facial expression that matches the feeling you are given.
Other
Raising Children Network Limited: Changing Routines: Autism
This resource provides strategies to use with students who struggle with changes in transitions and daily routines. Examples of changes in routines are provided, along with visual strategies and social stories. These tools may be used...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Nancy Etcoff on the Surprising Science of Happiness
Cognitive researcher, Nancy Etcoff looks at our pursuit of happiness and its surprising effect on our bodies. [14:22]
ReachOut USA
Reach Out Usa: How Can I Develop Coping Strategies?
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page has tips for how to cope with challenging situations and events.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Conflict Consulting: Lesson 2
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the process of conflict consulting as a means of helping a party resolve a conflict when the other party will not participate in a conflict resolution process. It is 2 of 3 in the...