PRODUCTS OF THE MONTH

Berenstain Bears Games and Books

The beloved Berenstain Bears help kids practice good behavior, talk about their feelings, and keep their cool with fun and engaging bingo games, card games, and activity books.

Sandplay, The Sacred Healing: A Guide to Symbolic Process

By Kate Amatruda & Phoenix Helm Simpson, this text addresses how sandplay therapy heals and how you do it; how it differs with children and adults; how you recognize and pass transference tests; and how you follow symbolic process. Free shipping from ChildTherapyToys.com!

New Laminated Feelings Posters from ChildTherapyToys

Sturdy laminated posters, with expressive photographs and identifying feeling words. Three different posters available: Children's, Teens, and All Youth. Each available in large or small sizes.

Deluxe play sets: police, army, and firefighter

Police Set includes helmet, vest, baton, walkie talkie, gun, ammo, whistle, badge, and more. Army set includes helmet, vest, canteen, compass, binoculars, knife, pistol, and more. Fire Fighter set includes vest, helmet, axe, flashlight, extinguisher, and more. All play sets come packed in a see-through storage case with carrying handle. (14" x 13" x 6" )

Impulse Control - Activites for Elementary School Students: This book provides activities and reproducible worksheets to help students think about and practice strategies to become more reflective (vs. impulsive). Using cognitive-behavioral theory and techniques, it is intended to provide school personnel with tools to teach students how to stop and think before acting. The games, role-plays and worksheets are presented in a playful, but thoughtful manner to help engage children while they learn invaluable lessons about how to use self-control techniques.

Faces and Feelings Listening Lotto - Develop listening skills and learn to identify feelings and facial expressions, while having fun playing lotto! Suitable for child therapists, counselors, teachers, and parents.

Kimochis and Kimochi Feeling Sets - Kimochi feelings you can share including Sleepy, Surprised, Embarrased, Guilty, Excited, and one blank that can be modified with a washable pen.

Pass Around the Magic: The Shared Storytelling Card Game - A fun and fresh storytelling tool that readily increases bonding and communication with individuals & groups

Sand Tray Therapy: A Humanistic Approach-Book and DVD - The purpose of this book is to provide practitioners, advanced graduate students and supervisors a model of sandtray processing from a humanistic perspective. The DVD that accompanies this book demonstrates a way to process a sandtray therapy session with a real adult client. The session on the DVD is an actual sandtray therapy session that is unedited. The primary focus of this book is on one way to do sandtray therapy with adults and adolescents and on the DVD I demonstrate how I do it.

Peace In Our Time (group therapy and social skills training) - This cooperative game, designed for the mass market, is an excellent tool for fostering cooperation and communication skills, using a board game format. Clinicians and teachers can use this game to lauch their own discussions and development of strategies to achieve peace at home, in the classroom, and in the community. This game is also an excellent game for families to play.

The Social and Emotional Competence Game - The Social and Emotional Competence Game was designed to give counselors and teachers another tool to teach social and emotional skills. Social and emotional competence refers to the capacity to recognize and manage emotions, solve problems effectively, and establish and maintain relationships with others. These skills serve to protect our children from a host of difficulties including behavior problems, increased emotional distress, academic failure, delinquency, and substance abuse. This game is a fun way to teach empathy, communication skills, self-awareness, social awareness, relationship skills, self-management, and responsible decision-making. It is also easily integrated into existing programs and can be used in individual and small group therapy.

The Big Top Game (Autism, Asperger's, PDD, NOS) - The Big Top Game™ has been developed with special attention to the needs and learning styles of PDD and NVLD children. In order to accomplish this goal, the game employs (1) Effective Sensory Stimuli, (2) Behavioral Reinforcement, (3) Social/emotional development, and (4) Educational skills development. The game is designed additionally to help those who care for and interact with these individuals by helping them gain understanding, develop empathy, and improve interpersonal relationships with the individuals. 

A Practical Handbook for Building the Play Therapy Relationship - Building a safe, accepting, and freeing relationship with a child in the play therapy experience is considered to be essential by practicing play therapists and all theoretical approaches to play therapy. A Practical Handbook for Building the Play Therapy Relationship is designed for practitioners, students, and play therapy supervisors who want a practical approach for learning or teaching the fundamental skills of building a therapeutic relationship in play therapy. It provides a step-by-step approach from structuring the play therapy session to therapeutic limit setting to termination-closure. This book involves the reader in learning and applying these key skills and is a must for practitioners and students of the play therapy process.

The Talking, Feeling and Doing Game - The first published therapeutic game, by Richard A. Gardner, M.D., is still one of the most popular tools used in child psychotherapy! The engaging game format utilizing token reinforcement enhances the child's interest and elicits spontaneous revelations. The information gained provides diagnostically meaningful insights into the child's psychodynamics, and is of therapeutic value because each response can serve as a catalyst for therapeutic interchanges.

Mobile Sand Tray and Sand Toy Kit - Now you can be mobile and do sand play therapy too! The inflatable tray doubles as a carrying case for your sand. The top easily attaches with Velcro. Fold the tray and half and there are two carrying handles. We include Six pounds of light weight Moon Sand/Delta Sand which is the same volume as 15 pounds of heavy weight sand. The light weight sand reduces the weight and the wear and tear on your tray. Click link to find out everything included in the kit.

Treasure Time (deluxe kit): Regular Board Game, & Junior Cards - Increase the versatility of your Treasure Time Board Game when you buy it with the Junior Cards included! The Junior Cards have been re-written to appeal to children 5 to 8 years old. Enhance social skills and emotional competence: players learn how to handle conflicts, share and accept one another's opinions, feelings, experiences, dreams and hopes. Players become members of a Treasure Crew and adhere to a Captain’s Code of Conduct. They encounter danger, challenge and adventure, while on a quest for lost treasure.

Play-2-Learn Dominoes Games - Kids love to play dominoes, and Play-2-Learn Dominoes™ is a new line of therapeutic/counseling games that puts the fun of playing dominoes to work helping kids learn important skills. Includes all five games: Anger Control, Bully Wise, Feelings Fun, Friendship, and Empathy Counts.

Play Therapy - Getting Started Package - Starting a practice can be very costly. The Getting Started Package includes The Feeling Elf Cards, Thoughts and Feelings: Sentence Completion Card Game, My First Therapy Game, Mini Feelings Poster, Checkers, and a Mood Cube.

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