This volume contains 90 field-tested activities that will help students to use positive mental health condepts in overcoming irrational beliefs and combat negative feelings and attitudes

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This comprehensive and easy-to-use curriculum is based on the principles of Rational Emotion Therapy (RET). It helps students learn to use positive mental health concepts in overcoming irrational beliefs, negative feelings and attitudes, and the negative consequences that may result.

Activities are organized into five categories:
1. Self-Acceptance
2. Beliefs and Behaviour
3. Interpersonal Relationships
4. Feelings
5. Problem Solving/Decision Making

The activities are designed for use in the classroom or in small-group setting. They include simulation games, stories, role-plays, written activities, brainstorming, and art activities.

Soft bound, reproducable

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Grades 1-2

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

1. People Hunt
2. People Poster
3. Can Do, Can't Do
4. Changes, Changes
5. Oops!
6. Mistakes Mean...

FEELINGS

1. Feel Wheel
2. We All Have Feelings
3. Where Do You Hurt?
4. Like 'Em or Not
5. Express It!
6. I'm Afraid

BELIEFS AND BEHAVIOR

1. Fact or Fantasy
2. Choosing to Behave
3. Sensible or Not Sensible?
4. I Have to Have My Way
5. Exaggerations
6. Cause and Effect

PROBLEM SOLVING/DECISION MAKING

1. Decisions and Consequences
2. We Can If We Try
3. Big and Little Choices
4. Multiple Solutions
5. What Now?
6. Talking It Out

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

1. People Sorting
2. What's Inside?
3. Why Judge?
4. Hand Me Some Happiness
5. It's OK to Goof Up
6. Plus or Minus Tac-Toe

GRADES 3-4

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

1. Just Different
2. Nobody Likes Me
3. Put-Downs
4. So They Say
5. I Can Try
6. Perfectly, Perfectly

FEELINGS

1. Face Your Feelings
2. I Think, I Feel
3. How Strong?
4. Thermometer of Emotions
5. I Feel, I Do
6. How Do You Feel?

BELIEFS AND BEHAVIOR

1. Facts and Beliefs
2. Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors
3. Checking It Out
4. Stop, Go, and Caution
5. Options
6. It's Awful

PROBLEM SOLVING/DECISION MAKING

1. What Happens When...
2. Once Upon a Time
3. For Better or Worse
4. The Ripple Effect
5. React and Respond
6. R and R

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

1. Judgment Machine
2. Face the Facts
3. Glad to Be Me
4. It's Me!
5. One of a Kind
6. True Blue

Grades 5-6

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

1. Who Isn't What?
2. I Am, I Do
3. Me Power
4. Voicebox
5. Performance Wheel
6. Accept or Change

FEELINGS

1. They Made Me Feel
2. Help or Hinder?
3. Healthy/Unhealthy Expression
4. Changing Thoughts, Changing Feelings
5. How Might They Feel?
6. Feelings and Physical Reactions

BELIEFS AND BEHAVIOR

1. Rational or Irrational
2. It's Always
3. Shoulds, Shoulds, Shoulds
4. Rose-Colored Glasses
5. Consequences
6. Erase the Irrational

PROBLEM SOLVING/DECISION MAKING

1. Approach or Avoid
2. Assess the Decision
3. Yours vs. Mine vs. Ours
4. If I Say So
5. One Step at a Time
6. Goal for It

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

1. Choices, Choices Everywhere
2. Guessing Game
3. One Plus One Plus One
4. Say What?
5. Solve It
6. Tune It

Index of Activities

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