Creative Interventions for Troubled Children and Youth

This book is full of great ideas for use with children. There are great activities, worksheets, games and more to cover a wide variety of issues for counseling and working with youth. The ideas are easy to implement and also to adapt for clients as needed. I use this material all the time!

This book is really great. It just has very practical ideas and really creative activities. I love how, in a very organized way, it lists the age group for each acitivity, as well as the stage of therapy it is for (beginning, middle or end). It is very clear and understandable and I really like how it has a reference page where everything is listed. I like how a lot of the activities are based around games most therapist will already have, and that they are just tmodified to become a therapy-based game. I also like that the book provides worksheets that can be easily photocopied and used over and over again. This book is really a must for anyone counseling children!

The activities in this book are well organized and simple. Most do require some type of preparation and some materials. Some of the activities use games; others use art therapy, etc. This is an invaluable resource for me in therapy session with children and adolescents. The kids have always been interested in the interventions I have used from this book. This is therapy without the child KNOWING it's therapy. Highly recommended.

I am a social worker who often works with oppositional and resistant children. This book offers several fresh ideas on interacting and engaging children so that they will begin to talk about their feelings. I have been very impressed with the several activities and have found that they can be applied to children of various ages with very little work. I think this book is a must for anyone who works with children.

Another therapist recommended this book to me for it's creativity...and I love it! It has numerous activities to do with clients. It is in sections based upon a skill, like identifying and expressing feelings, self esteem, coping and social skills. With each section it has wonderful games such as TIC-TAC-TOE FEELINGS, and COMFORT KIT, as well as variations of games we already play-like basketball or other commonly used board games, and most of the games supplies are in the book or can be easily found in your office (or bought for pretty cheap). It also has a little graduation section and a bibliography. I love this book for so many reasons, but it really helped with ideas for kids who are not into traditional therapy.