101 Great Games & Activities
edited by Arthur VanGundy

Arthur VanGundy has assembled 101 original games and activities guaranteed to satisfy almost every conceivable training need. The activities are organized into twenty different categories, representing a variety of topics.

Anger Control Training Program
Emma Williams and Rebecca Barlow

This three-volume training program addresses the need for a practical and easily accessible guide for professionals working with people with anger control problems.

Bereavement & Loss Training Manual
Alice Goodall, Tim Drage & Gillian Bell

This resource outlines a comprehensive yet flexible program that can be used by both the professional trainer and the less experienced course leader.

Building Relationships: Group Games
Thorsten Boehner

140 games and activities to foster personal development; improve social communication skills; and strengthen group dynamics.

Christian Therapist’s Notebook
Philip J. Henry, PhD, Lori Marie Figueroa, MA, David R. Miller, MEd, PhD

Provide professionally sound and principled therapy based on the truth of God

Common Parenting Issues
Cathy Bin

This CD-ROM resource pack has been designed for professionals working with children and families, and is an invaluable asset for health centres, children's centres, playgroups, nurseries or schools.

COPING SKILLS WORKBOOK


This workbook is designed to help instill in children the basic tools they need for emotional self-care.

COUNSELING WORKBOOK


This fully reproducible handbook is chock-full of strategies designed to help children handle such challenges as parental divorce, living in a blended family, loss and grieving, food related issues, coping with depression, having ADD/LD and being gifted.

Creative Action Methods in Groupwork
Andy Hickson, Actor, Playwright and Group Leader

Highly practical and accessible, this unique manual outlines "action method techniques" for exploring difficulties or problems, and by using the safety of a group, discovers ways of overcoming them.

Creative Art in Groupwork
Jean Campbell, Cert Ed., Dip AT, Art Teacher and Therapist

This practical and highly accessible manual contains 142 art activities developed specifically for use with groups of people of all ages and abilities.

Creative Drama in Groupwork
Sue Jennings

This book is a comprehensive guide which will enable all those involved in groupwork to run drama sessions effectively and enjoyably.

Creative Games in Groupwork
Robin Dynes, Counselor

Do you need fresh ideas for Games? Are you constinuously searching for choices and variety to give balanced group sessions which will motivate people, whatever their ages, tastes or interests?

Creative Movement & Dance in Groupwork
Helen Payne, MPhil in Dance Movement Therapy

A strong link exists between movement and emotion. This innovative book provides 180 practical and stimulating activities which explore that link and includes a clear rational for the use of dance movement to enrich therapy programs.

Creative Music in Groupwork
Christopher Achenbach, BA

This inspirational and practical manual which offers both skilled and unskilled practitioners numerous ideas for music groupwork activities.

Creative Play & Drama with Adults at Risk
Sue Jennings

This hands-on manual offers a clear introduction to play and drama work for professionals working with adults at risk. Many adults feel nervous about drama and think that play is childish. Sue Jennings shows that by participating in play and drama people can make a difference to how they feel about themselves and the world around them.

Creative Play with Children at Risk


Provides practical ideas for playing with children from birth onwards and gives clear descriptions of the application of play techniques with children with special needs. These include children with developmental delay as well as children who have suffered abuse

Creative Relaxation in Groupwork
Irene Tubbs, BEd

With more than 100 activities, this unique text offers a gold mine of techniques and processes for relaxation.

Creative Storytelling with Adults at Risk
Sue Jennings

This innovative and practically-based book is a detailed resource for people working with adults with special needs, including mental health issues, learning disabilities, personality disorders or any adults who are vulnerable or addressing crises in their lives.

Creative Storytelling with Children at Risk
Sue Jennings

This practical book will improve the play skills - through storytelling and storywork - of anyone working with children, especially with children 'at risk', such as looked-after children, or children suffering from trauma or abuse.

Creative Themes for Groupwork and Personal Development
Susan Pinn-Atkinson & Jenny Woolloff

Based around 30 themes, this practical resource provides flexible and adaptable ideas for groupwork sessions.

Creative Writing in Groupwork
Robin Dynes, Counselor

This book is designed to assist everyone involved in groupwork to use creative writing in an effective way.

Drama Scripts for People with Special Needs
Sheree Vickers

You may wish to use drama in a teaching or group situation but lack either the confidence to speak in character or the time to develop a role and/or workshop. This book solves both of these problems by providing the words to speak, an established well-worked lesson plan to use and an easy format to follow for multiple adaptations and future dramas. If you have experience of using drama, the ideas in this book will inspire and assist your creative lessons.

Draw On Your Emotions
Margot Sunderland

This manual provides an "easy-to-do" picture exercises with the aims of helping people of all ages express, communicate, and deal more effectively with their emotions in everyday life.

Draw on Your Relationships
Margot Sunderland

This book is designed for professionals to help people explore, communicate and learn more about themselves in light of their relationships.

Early Speech & Language Skills:
Maria Monschein

Full of practical ideas that can be easily implemented with minimal preparation, this book contains a wealth of games and activities for developing language with young children.

Emotion Colorcards


These cards are designed to promote awareness of feelings and are an ideal tool to help develop self-expression.

From Prevention to Wellness Through Group Work
Joan K. Perry, DSW

This volume offers a rich collection of ideas on social group work practice, providing a well-grounded integration of philosophy and theory with creative groups programs and activities.

Group Activity for Personal Development
Sheena Duboust & Pamela Knight, Occupational Therapists

Creating a compendium of tried and tested activities for personal development this highly practical and easy-to-use title covers specific themes such as learning to trust, developing self-understanding, non-verbal communication, expressing feelings, assertion training and exploring relationships.

Group Games: Dealing with Aggression
Rosemarie Portmann

A selection of 150 games that aim to control and reduce aggression by encouraging the participants to express their anger in a controlled environment so that they may recognize the triggers of anger and aggression and learn how to control it.

Group Games: Emotional Strength & Self Esteem
Rosemarie Portmann

Contains 111 games that help to develop strength, power and confidence through the exploration and discovery of strengths and weaknesses.

Group Games: Relaxation & Concentration
Rosemarie Portmann & Elisabeth Schneider

130 games, which focus on four different ways of promoting relaxation and concentration.

Group Games: Social Skills
Brigit Fuchs

The focus of these 160 games is to provide ideas that aim to improve the social climate within groups of people.

Group Therapist's Notebook
Edited by Dawn Viers, PhD

The Group Therapist’s Notebook: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy offers facilitators effective strategies to gather individuals who have their own unique needs together to form a group where each member feels comfortable exploring personal—and often painful—topics.

Groupwork Manual
Andy Hickson

This manual answers many common questions and offers almost 100 practical groupwork activities. It takes the user through a range of exercises, ideas, pitfalls and descriptions and avoids the use of jargon.

Guide to Creative Group
Lois E. Passi, LCSW

This book introduces you to new and unique methods on how to create or manage groups for a day hospital, inpatient unit, or intensive outpatient program to best meet the needs of your patients.

Interactive Storytelling
Keith Park, B.Ed (Hons)

This hands-on manual will enable teachers, therapists, parents and anyone working with children or adults in community settings to use performance and recital to bring stories, drama and poetry to life for people of all abilities.

Interventions for Schizophrenia
Emma Williams

This step-by-step manual presents a flexible, five-module intervention programme to help clients with schizophrenia understand their illness, recognise, monitor and cope with their symptoms and reduce the impact of the illness on their lives.

Language for Thinking
Stephen Parsons & Anna Branagan

While most children develop verbal reasoning skills with relative ease, others find it more challenging. Verbal reasoning is particularly difficult for children who are recognised as having delayed language skills, specific language impairment, Autistic Spectrum Disorder (including Asperger's Syndrome), pragmatic language impairment or moderate learning difficulties. Children with less obvious oral language difficulties may begin to struggle when they start to read.

Let's Talk! Card Deck


This set of 78 cards have been designed, tried and tested for use with all groups to promote meaningful discussion. Consisting of three basic themes the cards will encourage people to talk about themselves, their lives, their feelings, their likes and dislikes.

Mental Health Handbook
Trevor Powell, MA (Hons), Msc. AFBPs, Clinical Psychologist

Professionals from all disciplines will welcome this abundance of material designed to play an important part in therapeutic intervention.

Playing with Words
Rosemarie Portmann & Elisabeth Schneider

With an emphasis on learning through play, this book provides a comprehensive collection of word games for vocabulary development or to constructively fill leisure time.

Positive Interaction Skills
Robin Dynes

Provides group facilitators with a flexible programme to enable participants to develop good personal interaction skills.

Practical Ideas for Emotional Intelligence
Adele Clark & Jacqui Blades

Psychotherapeutic Use of the Talking, Feeling, & Doing Game and Other Projective Techniques


This classic resource is filled with clinical vignettes on how the game can be used with various childhood disorders.

Self-Esteem Workbook
Glenn R. Schiraldi, Ph.D.

The Self-Esteem Workbook is based on the author's original new research, which has shown that self-esteem can be significantly improved through the use of self-help materials. Now psychologist and health educator Glenn Schiraldi has shaped these tested resources into a comprehensive, self-directed program that guides readers through twenty essential skill-building activities, each focused on developing a crucial component of healthy self-esteem.

Self-Esteem, 3rd Edition
Matthew McKay, Ph.D. and Patrick Fanning

The third edition of this best-selling title on building and maintaining a healthy level of self-esteem benefits from a new chapter on setting and achieving those goals that will enrich our lives and nourish our belief in ourselves. Proven cognitive techniques help you talk back to the self-critical voice inside you and change the way you think and feel about yourself.

Social Skills Handbook
Sue Hutchings, DipCOT, Jayne Comins, MRCSLT and Judy Offiler, MRCSLT

A range of useful and adaptable ideas and activities can be found in this practical guide which has been specifically designed for anyone involved in running social skills groups.

Social Skills Programmes
Maureen Aarons & Terssa Gittens

Programmes introduce children to good attention behaviour, which includes looking, listening and turn taking. Alll sessions are photocopiable.

STOP, RELAX & THINK WORKBOOK


This workbook contains more than 60 paper-and-pencil activities that teach children such important skills as thinking about consequences, staying focused and completing a task, engaging in quiet activities without disturbing others and more.

Talking, Feeling, & Doing Workbook
Lawrence L. Shapiro, Ph.D.

This workbook, includes 75 activities, is a fresh approach to helping counselors reach children.

The Art Activity Manual
Marylyn Cropley

A simple, flexible and practical approach to art activities, this book enables group members to explore and discover their own level of artistic skills, creative styles and preferences.

The Couple and Family Therapist's Notebook
Edited by Katherine M. Hertlein, PhD and Dawn Viers, PhD

The Couple and Family Therapist's Notebook provides clinicians with a wide range of practical field-tested therapy activities and homework that are solidly grounded to each intervention’s theoretical underpinning, then explores their effectiveness by briefly relating real-life cases.

The Group Leader's Toolkit
Robin Dynes

An essential resource for all kinds of groups, these tried and tested strategies will stimulate and encourage full participation from all group members.

Themed Activities for People with Learning Difficulties
Melinda Hutchinson

User-friendly and practical, this is an excellent resource for all professionals looking to run creative sessions with people with profound and complex learning difficulties. Using a selection of twenty everyday objects, it provides resource materials, ideas and flexible structures to extend and complement professionals' existing approaches.

Therapeutic Groupwork with Children
Joost Drost & Sydney Bayley

This hands-on workbook, written by a clinical psychologist and an educational psychologist, is an invaluable resource for all professionals who work with young children, both in clinics and schools, including teachers, activity leaders and therapists.

Therapist's Notebook
Lorna L. Hecker, PhD and Sharon A. Deacon, MS

This dynamic handbook provides you with handouts and homework activities that are quick and easy and require little effort or experience to use.

Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents
Catherine Ford Sori, PhD and Lorna L. Hecker, PhD

This dynamic handbook provides you with handouts and homework activities that are quick and easy and require little effort or experience to use.

Therapist's Notebook for Families
Bob Bertolino, PhD and Gary Schultheis, MA

This dynamic handbook provides you with handouts and homework activities that are quick and easy and require little effort or experience to use.

Therapist's Notebook for Family Health Care
Deanna Linville, PhD, LMFT, Katherine M. Hertlein, PhD

Effective interventions to help your clients deal with illness, disability, grief, and loss

Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling Vol I
Edited by Karen B. Helmeke, PhD, MDiv and Catherine Ford Sori, PhD

This volume helps prepare clinicians to undertake and initiate the integration of spirituality in therapy with clients and provides easy-to-follow examples. The book provides a helpful starting point to address a broad range of topics and problems.

Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling Vol II
Edited by Karen B. Helmeke, PhD, MDiv and Catherine Ford Sori, PhD

The Therapist’s Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling II is the second volume of a comprehensive two-volume resource that provides practical interventions from respected experts from a wide range of backgrounds and theoretical perspectives.

Therapist's Notebook for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients
Joy S. Whitman, PhD and Cynthia J. Boyd, PhD

This dynamic handbook provides you with handouts and homework activities that are quick and easy and require little effort or experience to use.

Therapist’s Notebook, Volume 2
Edited by Lorna L. Hecker, PhD, Catherine Ford Sori, PhD

This essential resource includes helpful homework assignments, reproducible handouts, and activities and interventions that can be applied to a wide variety of client and client problems.

Working in Groups
Pauline Maskell

This resource focuses on the group as a whole. The material described will show how a group can often achieve results that each individual could not achieve alone.