Group Counseling Activities for Kids

Discover the best group counseling activities for kids! Here you'll find curriculum, games, visuals and lesson plans to help facilitate group discussion on a variety of topics affecting students. Everything from healthy friendships to self regulation and more!
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Group counseling activities and ideas for working with kindergarteners - though all the ideas work great for all elementary grades!
Group Counseling With Kindergarteners
Group counseling activities and ideas for working with kindergarteners - though all the ideas work great for all elementary grades!
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Resiliency Group Curriculum
This resiliency small group counseling curriculum is awesome for helping students deal with whatever life throws their way. It works as a changing families group for students experiencing life changes such as: foster care, divorce or separation, re-marriage or blended families, incarceration, deployment, deportation, moving, death, etc. It’s also great for students impacted by sticky life circumstances or kiddos just needing some additional tier 2 social-emotional support.
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Check-In Activities and Closing Activities for Group Counseling - The Responsive Counselor
Start and end your group counseling sessions with activities that boost connection and consistency! This post has ideas to use with any group counseling curriculum: check-ins, goodbyes, and affirmation routines!
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Three easy ideas for hands-on and engaging group counseling activities to do with any skill area your elementary aged kids are working on!
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Resiliency Activities and Group Curriculum
Hands-on resiliency activities for individual counseling or group counseling with elementary students
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Group Counseling Professional Development
Virtual workshop for school counselors all abpout planning and running effective groups in schools.
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group counseling reinforcement
Do you want what you teach students in group to really stick? For them to carryover what you've done together? You need to use reinforcement strategies for group counseling!
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Virtual training workshop for school counselors to learn about effective group counseling - how to plan and run small groups in schools!
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Emotional Regulation Group Curriculum and CBT Activities for Kids - Shop The Responsive Counselor
This emotional regulation small group counseling curriculum with cognitive behavioral activities was created for middle to upper elementary students. CBT is an evidence-based counseling intervention but it can be a challenge to implement with children. This resource is a child-friendly and developmentally appropriate way to do cognitive behavioral work with kids!
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Group Counseling Activities and Ideas
Read this blog post to get some great tips and advice your group counseling sessions! These ideas will help create better routines, build relationships amongst your students, and proactively plan what skills your reinforce within your group session! Get these tips and school counselor advice here!
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Group counseling in elementary schools is hard and school counselors aren't usually prepared for it. Read about five common mistakes counselors make with groups in schools!
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Coping Lapbook
This social skills small group counseling curriculum is awesome for helping develop self-control, emotional regulation, and positive relationship skills with lower elementary (kindergarten, 1st grade, or 2nd grade) students. It has a strong focus on movement-based, play-based, and hands-on group activities.
Social Skills Activities Group Counseling Curriculum: Friendship & Self Control
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Boys Group Counseling Curriculum
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