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How to Relieve Stress: 37 Simple Activities and Games
Periodic stress is a fact of modern life. But we need not see stress as something perpetual, punishing, and unmanageable. Instead, by learning to apply [...]
30 Counseling Activities to Better Help Your Clients
The practice of counseling is full of exercises, role-play, and metaphors. By wielding the power of experiential learning and analogy through such activities, counselors can [...]
Motivational Interviewing Training: Top 14 Courses
Even if we know changing our behavior is good for us, change involves charting unknown territories, putting forth effort, and letting go of familiar habits. [...]
11 Anger Management Therapy Techniques and Interventions
“I saw red.” “He blew a fuse.” “It made my blood boil.” “She flew off the handle.” “They drove me up the wall.” These are [...]
Defense Mechanisms Worksheets: 10 Tools for Practitioners
Perhaps unsurprisingly, we are all likely to experience trauma more than once in our lives. Less widely known is our reliance on psychological defenses to [...]
20 Sleep Hygiene Tips and Worksheets for Kids & Teenagers
Every parent should know the importance of their own and their child’s sleep. When well-timed and of sufficient duration, it sets the scene for more [...]
15 Best Anger Management Assessments & Scales
Fundamental to human life are our emotions (Kvajo, 2016). Anger is a basic emotion evolved from the need for survival, fending off predators and fleeing [...]
12 Social Work Books Every Practitioner Should Read
Social workers are tasked with helping survivors of childhood abuse, domestic violence, violent crime, disaster, war, and terrorism (Bride, 2007). While this mission list appears [...]
17 Best Courses for Relationship & Couples Counseling
Over the course of our lives, we will have countless relationships, some deep and lasting and others fleeting. Maintaining a healthy and satisfying relationship is [...]
How to Measure Assertiveness: 30+ Questions & Scales
When confronted by demands at odds with our best interests, we must ask: Why are we not standing up for ourselves? Are we saying yes [...]