Tools For Your Toolbox (2nd Edition, Rev. & Expanded)

Tools For Your Toolbox: Life Skills and Personal Growth Activities for Group and Individual Use, is a practical, hands-on workbook full of over 270 pages of ideas, how-tos, activities, worksheets, detailed lesson plans, and informational handouts. The book can be used by teachers, school counselors, therapists, social workers, parents, and anyone else who has an interest in emotional health or personal growth.

In a durable, easy-to-use 8 1/2 by 11-inch format with reproducible pages, this workbook includes:

-- Tips for setting up and structuring groups
-- Parent permission letters, student contracts, and other sample forms for starting school-based support groups
-- Warm-ups and trust building exercises
-- Ten basic tools for emotional growth
-- Dozens of additional group activities with detailed lesson plans
-- Worksheets for group, individual, or classroom use
-- Closure activities and a group evaluation

Activity topics include:

-- Understanding and processing feelings
-- Communication skills
-- Dynamics in families and other settings and situations
-- Grief and loss recovery
-- Problem solving and goal setting
-- Gossip prevention
-- Unsent letters and other open-ended discussion starters

and many others!