My Feelings First Aid Kit

My Feelings First Aid Kit
Author: Danielle Butts
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2019-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781077036314

"My Feelings First Aid Kit" is a program that equips students with a variety of coping skills and strategies to help them in real life situations. Each item in the kit represents different approaches to help them solve problems and be mentally health and strong. This program can be used as a preventive measure, and also as crisis intervention for students. Students are given tools and skills to help them self-asses and to find a coping strategy that works best for them. Pre-literate versions of student activity pages are provided.Coping skills and other techniques include: self-regulation, self-calming strategies, self-assessment, confidence building, examining healthy habits, relationship skills, setting healthy boundaries and expectations, grounding, positive self-talk, affirmations, breathing techniques, visualization, relaxation techniques, self-care, goal setting, and asking for help.Many resources are available so this program can be tailored for individuals, groups, classes, and even assemblies. Teachers, counselors, and therapists can use the tools to reinforce skills after whole group lessons have been taught. Students can have ownership and practice self-regulation with pocket versions, engaging home assignments, coloring pages, and ongoing reinforcement of skills.Facilitators of the program can teach the lessons in any order, depending on the needs of the students. For example, for a summer program four or five skills can be focused on, depending on the needs of the students and time constraints. The Pre Test can be used to identify areas of need.Resources for the Facilitator: the Program Overview, Lesson Plans, PowerPoint Presentation, and Large Cut Outs that can be laminatedResources for Students: the Overview Page, Pre and Post Tests, Student Activity Pages (regular and Pre-Literate versions), Coloring Pages, and Pocket Version.Suggested Uses: the Overview Page, Student Activity Pages, and Coloring Pages can be arranged into a packet, stapled or put into a folder so students can keep of their "Kit" together. Coloring Pages on the front and Activity Pages on the back, in order the facilitator would like to cover the lessons. The Pocket Version can be cut out and kept with the students to help them self-regulate. A laminated set of the Pocket Version can be kept in a cool-down corner, or with the classroom teacher or counselor to use as a non-verbal cue for the student to self-assess or to try a different strategy.Lesson Plans: Detailed lesson plans cover each item in the kit in an explicit, step by step format. Standards are based on the American School Counselor Association National Standards for Students. Lessons can be tailored to fit any time frame, depending on the depth of discussion and amount of practice with skills. Suggested use is 12 lessons, 30-60 minutes each.Pre TestIntroduction to "My Feelings First Aid Kit"Ten Lessons for the items in the kit: Band aid = heal your feelingsSunscreen = protect yourselfVitamins = make yourself strongerGloves = setting boundariesAce Bandage = keep it togetherThermometer = check your anger/emotional levelIce Pack = strategies to cool downMirror = knowing your strengths and weaknessesNotepad = setting goals, writing notesPhone = call for help when you can't handle it, know your resourcesPost TestNOTE: The font used for student activity pages is a dyslexia-friendly font called Open Dyslexic. You can download it and use it for free from https: //opendyslexic.org/All images are original, commissioned artwork owned by Danielle Butts.

The Anxiety First Aid Kit

The Anxiety First Aid Kit
Author: Rick Hanson
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2020-08-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1684038502

“Ideal for these unsettling times; highly recommended for general readers." —Library Journal (starred review) A quick-relief guide for calming anxiety and stress right now—during the COVID-19 pandemic If you’re feeling unprecedented levels of stress and anxiety right now, please know that you aren’t alone. In these extreme and uncertain times, it’s natural to be in a constant state of mental and physical strain. Whether you’re dealing with job loss, a sick loved one, or just feeling the weight of the world during your 2 a.m. doomscroll—you need quick tools you can use right now, whenever and wherever you are, to lower stress and soothe anxiety. This emergency kit has you covered. Written by a dream team of mental health experts and grounded in evidence-based therapy, The Anxiety First Aid Kit offers powerful tools for triaging stress and anxiety in the moments when you need it most. You’ll find easy and doable ways to help you press pause on panic, and find your calm spot right away. You’ll discover in-the-moment interventions to help you relax before your anxiety and stress go into overdrive. And finally, you’ll learn how to make healthy and workable lifestyle changes to improve your mental health and increase resilience, so you can effectively deal with stressful situations in the future—no matter what life throws at you. Between pandemic-related economic fears, the frustrations of social distancing, indoor confinement, work and household double duties (now including homeschooling!), and the looming threat of serious illness, is it any wonder you’re feeling completely stressed out and anxious? If you need immediate relief, The Anxiety First Aid Kit has everything you need to manage stress and anxiety—right now.

Dr. Bob's Emotional Repair Program First Aid Kit

Dr. Bob's Emotional Repair Program First Aid Kit
Author: Sue Clancy
Publisher: Bookbaby
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2019-11
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781543985917

We all feel bad from time to time but how do we deal with these feelings? Do the ways we cope with emotional issues hurt us further or do they help us? Perhaps we need a new story. Over the years Dr. Bob Hoke, a psychiatrist, has created a series of therapeutic discussions devoted to "Emotional Repair". Dr. Bob, in his "Emotional Repair Program" uses fictional stories to help us learn to repair our own emotions and deal with the non-fictional world. During animated conversation Dr. Bob shared his stories and their therapeutic context within the "Emotional Repair Program" with Sue Clancy, an artist, who wrote notes and illustrated the stories as Dr. Bob talked. Sue, with Dr. Bob's encouragement, collected her notes and cartoon/graphic novel style illustrations into this book. Dr. Bob's Emotional Repair Program is based on the following assumptions: -People DO have the resources and strengths to resolve their complaints and create emotional growth. -Emotional repair does NOT require long-term therapy.-Practical results can be achieved in a short time.This First Aid Kit focuses on the immediately needed skills to quickly repair emotions and develop the inner resources to resolve emotional problems. The First Aid Kit is a series of fictional stories â and non-fiction cognitive behavior practices â which come with a strong warning: Keep this First Aid Kit to yourself! Resist the impulse to teach the practices in this book to anyone else! You live these practices first â let other people learn from your example! As the master said "Don't try to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and irritates the pig."

Be Patient, Be Present, Be Joyful

Be Patient, Be Present, Be Joyful
Author: Ryan M Stanley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2019-07-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781989528006

Certified Professional Life and Self Leadership Coach, Ryan Stanley, takes some of the biggest concepts of personal growth and self-development, and condenses them down to a quick and easy to read, fun but poignant self-study guide.

Emotional Wound First Aid Kit

Emotional Wound First Aid Kit
Author: John Schurmann
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2016-04-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781523792726

FIRST-AID KIT FOR EMOTIONAL INJURIES, WOUNDS OR PAINS. Life is full of emotional struggles - some small, some big. And while you may be coping fairly well, it's easy to suppress feelings, hold anger or resentment in the wake of rejection, hurt, injustice or abuse - and open sores can have a really tight grip on your life. In Emotional Wound First-Aid Kit, John Schurmann offers specific step-by-step treatments that are fast, simple, and effective. He defines the cause of emotional pain, wounds or injuries, and what you can do to repair, heal and maintain optimal health. Using real-life examples of transformed lives and drawing on 30 years of professional experience, Schurmann explains how to: Assess the severity of an emotional pain. Care for and nurse your emotional sores. Let go of the injustice, resentment, hurt. Protect and strengthen your emotions. Deepen and enrich your relationships, and feel closer to your loved ones, Forgive the person who hurt you. Love, trust and forgive yourself. Overcome negative self-talk. Communicate with assertiveness. Become a positive and happy person. Restore damaged relationships. Set healthy boundaries. Become your best friend, Love and enrich your relationship with God. Furthermore, the kit provides the central self-care skills to help you develop a healthy, vibrant and resilient mind, heart and spirit. Moreover, it can be used to develop your own self-help program or as an adjunct to therapy. How Are You Managing Your Emotional Wounds? Let's find out! If more than one of these statements apply to you, there is reason to suspect that an emotional injury, wound or pain is present in your life. I often suppress my feelings. I choose to keep hurtful events a secret. I hold anger or resentment. I have trouble trusting people. I struggle to forgive people. I have trouble sharing my feelings. I feel guilt and/or shame. I struggle to let go of betrayal, loss or hurt. I self-medicate with alcohol, drugs, sex or work. I still grieve the loss after so many year. Most people don't know how to nurse their emotional wounds or develop optimal emotional health. Wounds that don't heal can contaminate every aspect of your life. Open wounds affect how you view the world, how you relate to others and how you conduct your life in general. Because the FIRST AID-KIT FOR EMOTIONS has been nonexistent most people don't know how to nurse their emotional wounds. Untreated emotional wounds can cause physical, mental, emotional and spiritual problems. They can set off mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety or addiction. They can wipe out relationships, add to job failures, obscure life's purpose or direction, and ultimately destroy life. This workbook is full of stories of transformation. People who felt stuck, alone, in despair - finding the courage to face their emotional wounds, taking the risk to open up to their feelings, changing in ways they never imagined possible. THE SAME CAN HAPPEN FOR YOU. If you are looking to restore and enhance your emotional, intellectual and spiritual health, this workbook will be an invaluable resource.

Psychological First Aid

Psychological First Aid
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2014-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789241548618

This manual is designed to orient helpers to offer psychological first aid (PFA) to people following a serious crisis event. PFA involves humane, supportive and practical assistance for people who are distressed, in ways that respect their dignity, culture and abilities. The instructions and materials in this manual are for a half-day orientation (4 hours excluding breaks) to prepare helpers to support people recently affected by very stressful events. If you have more time available for the orientation, extra activities and slides are included in text boxes to deliver a full day orientation (five and a half hours excluding breaks). Where possible, one should organize full day orientations to allow for deeper learning. It is important to adapt the orientation and materials to the local culture, language and context, and to the likely kinds of crisis situations in which your participants would be helping. This facilitator's manual is to be used together with Psychological First Aid: Guide for Field Workers.

First Aid for Broken Hearts

First Aid for Broken Hearts
Author: Dr. Alan Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1617222836

Life is both wonderful and devastating. It graces us with joy, and it breaks our hearts. If your heart is broken, this book is for you. Whether you're struggling with a death, break-up, illness, unwanted life change, or loss of any kind, this book will help you both understand your predicament and figure out what to do about it. Loss may be an unavoidable part of human life, but it doesn't have to prevent you from living well. You can and will survive this. Actually, if you adopt this guide's basic principles, revealed and tested by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors, you will even go on to thrive. Let's get mending.

Your Mental Health First Aid Kit

Your Mental Health First Aid Kit
Author: Zoë Aston
Publisher: Yellow Kite
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1529354595

2020 has been a year of significant upheaval for many on a personal level. Our values and morals have been challenged, both internally and externally. Our ideas about who we are and our significance in the world have been destabilised, our boundaries have been questioned and our most intimate relationships - whether with ourselves or significant others - have become our only option to meet a variety of human needs. So it seems imperative to get some solution-based information to you now, so that you can recover from the rollercoaster we've all been riding and feel psychologically strong enough to embark on my five-week programme in Your Mental Health WorkoutTM, publishing in May 2021. Zoë Aston's short ebook Your Mental Health First Aid Kit will support you to feel psychologically healthier using a range of therapeutic tools and solution-based actions, programmed in a way you may already be familiar with: a step-by-step workout. 'This is a well developed pattern , a surefire plan, and a riveting must read, if success in your chosen field is important to you.' - Derrick Evans AKA Mr Motivator 'Zoë's techniques are easy and give great results. I highly recommend Your Mental Health WorkoutTM to anyone who has the desire to improve their emotional health.' - Pixie Lott 'I worked with Zoë for 6 months, prior to which I had always been quite sceptical about whether I would benefit from therapy. During that time she helped me to get to know myself, understand myself, and be kinder to myself.' - Dr Zoë Williams

DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets

DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets
Author: Marsha M. Linehan
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462517838

Featuring more than 225 user-friendly handouts and worksheets, this is an essential resource for clients learning dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills, and those who treat them. All of the handouts and worksheets discussed in Marsha M. Linehan's DBT Skills Training Manual, Second Edition, are provided, together with brief introductions to each module written expressly for clients. Originally developed to treat borderline personality disorder, DBT has been demonstrated effective in treatment of a wide range of psychological and emotional problems. No single skills training program will include all of the handouts and worksheets in this book; clients get quick, easy access to the tools recommended to meet their particular needs. The 8 1/2" x 11" format and spiral binding facilitate photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a webpage where they can download and print additional copies of the handouts and worksheets. Mental health professionals, see also the author's DBT Skills Training Manual, Second Edition, which provides complete instructions for teaching the skills. Also available: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, the authoritative presentation of DBT, and Linehan's instructive skills training DVDs for clients--Crisis Survival Skills: Part One and This One Moment.