A treasure trove of coping, regulating, grounding, and soothing activities and techniques for working with children (aged 6+), teens and adults.
This pack of 70 cards and explanatory guide offers a playful, non-threatening way to explore feelings, and to form effective coping, regulating, soothing, and grounding strategies through a range of games and activities. Designed to work with both the brain and body, the cards address a wide range of common issues including anxiety, stress, low mood, sleep difficulties and emotional dysregulation. To do so, they employ a range of proven strategies including cognitive techniques, nurturing activities, sensory strategies, body-based activity and creative exercises. Developed by specialist clinical psychologist, trainer and author Dr. Karen Treisman, this deck is a little treasure for professionals, parents, carers supporting children and adolescents aged 6+.
These cards are fabulous and present numerous varied techniques that incorporate body, mind and spirit to find the best ways to ground, soothe, cope and regulate. From breathing exercises, to yoga and tai chi, to noticing the 5 senses and a plethora of other creative ideas, these cards have something for everybody. The deck is chock full of creative suggestions that can help parents, families and therapists. The deck comes with a very useful guide book which make the cards accessible for both professionals and the non professionals alike. These cards are yet another great tool from Dr. Triesman and support her Therapeutic Treasure Box for Working with Children and Adolescents with Developmental Trauma perfectly and her other cards, The Therapeutic Treasure Deck of Feelings and Sentence Completion Cards. Your toolbox will be bursting with accessible, creative techniques for socio-emotional learning. I highly recommend all these works by Dr. Triesman.
¡Olé Namaste! Eve Costarelli
Thank you to Jessica Kingsley Publishing for sending me a copy of this book. All opinions stated are my own.