Category: Counseling
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Must-Have Books for Tackling Relational Aggression
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Random Acts of Kindness: Maria Dismondy Guest Post
*Updated* Random Acts of Kindness or RAKs are a great activity to support social-emotional learning in the classroom. I’ve found that when kids are busy trying to find nice things to do for others, they spend less time some of the friendship problems that seem to crop up in elementary school. Picture books are a great way to…
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New Counseling Games and Activities + Coping Skills Freebie
The post below is filled with some of my counseling games and activities available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. There is a coping skills freebie at the bottom of this post for my newsletter subscribers. Not on the list? Just pop your email in and the download will be sent to your inbox! Learning…
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Top 16 Posts for 2016
The end of the year is a great time to reflect on the highlights of the past 12 months! 2016 was a great year in so many respects…one of my favorite highlights for The Helpful Counselor is that over 500,000 NEW readers stopped by for a visit…Can you believe it? I even did a double…
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Sexual Victimization: The Locker Room is No Excuse
Locker rooms are no excuse to brag about sexually victimizing women. Period. This post isn’t meant to be political. I’m not trying to persuade you to vote one way or another. (You can read about the controversy here if you wish to get some background information.) What I am asking of you is to be…
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Play Therapy Activities & Resources for $1
I went to the dollar store to stock up on some items for play therapy. Check out the video to see what I discovered and how I plan to use them with kids! (I’m working on a transcript and will update this post ASAP) Pin Me!
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Decorating Counseling Offices on the Cheap
Decorating counseling offices can get pretty expensive…fast. Especially if you’re a new school counselor or if you have offices in multiple buildings. In an effort to help out new school counselors get set up (without breaking the bank), I raided my local dollar store and made a few videos where I go over how I to…
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$1 Supplies for Your Counseling Office
Are you a new school counselor? New social worker? New psychologist? Or…maybe you’re a veteran to the field, but you find your self in a situation where you need set up a new counseling office. Well, whatever the case…you’re in the right spot! I recently visited my local dollar store to show you how you can…
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Relational Aggression: How to End the On-Again-Off-Again Friendship Cycle
Welcome to the 4th installment of my blog series on relational aggression. If you missed the first post and want to start at the beginning, you can find it here. In an earlier post, I mentioned that relational aggression can occur between close friends. This type of bullying can be confusing for children to understand. Why…
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20 Things You Can Say to Help an Angry Child
So what do you say to an angry child? Does it matter if the child is your client, student, or your own offspring? Do you find yourself reacting differently depending on who is in emotional distress? It really shouldn’t matter, but all too often it does. I speak from experience on this one! Every once…