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Help children develop healthy coping skills with this 12-week plan.
Are you an educator or mental health professional searching for a powerful all-in-one program for helping kids regulate their emotions, manage their anxiety, and cope with their feelings? Then this book is for you!
Inside this heartfelt, comprehensive guide, you’ll join School Adjustment Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Casey O'Brien Martin as she reveals a powerful, practical framework to help children cope with anxiety, overcome stress, and learn to thrive. Built on a selection of cognitive behavioral techniques, mindful breathing exercises, somatic techniques, and mindfulness, as well as engaging activities including stretching, gratitude, visualization, and positive self-talk, Skills for Big Feelings seeks to empower kids to embrace their emotional growth over the course of a comprehensive 12-week program.
With over a dozen activities including accepting mistakes, identifying support systems, acknowledging triggers and much more, this complete guide provides educators and professionals alike with a detailed, objective-based framework for promoting optimal social-emotional health.
📘 eBook Details:
- A Complete 12-Week Guide Designed For Teaching Relaxation, Regulation and Coping Techniques To Children Ages 6-12
- Practical Tools and Advice For Clinicians and Educators, Including S.M.A.R.T. Treatment Plans and IEP Objectives, Family Handouts, Letters, and Surveys
- A Fun 28-Page Coloring Workbook To Promote Stretches, Mindful Breathing Techniques, and Relaxation Skills
- 16 Trauma-Informed Guided Relaxation Scripts For Helping Kids Destress
- Tips and Tricks To Help You Implement These Lessons In Individual, Small Group, and Whole Classroom Settings
- And a Wealth of Engaging Social-Emotional Activities Including Identifying and Accepting Feelings, Dealing With Unhelpful Thoughts, and More
Casey and her colleagues have personally seen this program deliver huge results for their students. Arming children with the tools and knowledge they need to learn coping mechanisms and overcome anxiety is an essential part of their development into emotionally-healthy adults. Using the tried-and-tested Feeling-Breath-Thought-Skill framework, Skills for Big Feelings equips kids with these vital techniques and shows them how to thrive.
🧠 The Feeling-Breath-Thought-Skill Framework:
The curriculum helps children develop awareness of their emotions and practice strategies for responding to challenging experiences.
- Feeling: Identify, name, and accept emotions.
- Breath: Practice mindful breathing and relaxation strategies.
- Thought: Notice thoughts and explore different ways of thinking.
- Skill: Build a personalized collection of coping strategies.
🎒 Quick Details: Grades 2–8 | 📅 12-week curriculum | 📘 Standalone eBook | 🎨 28-page coloring workbook | 🧘 16 guided relaxation scripts | 🎯 Emotional regulation, anxiety + coping skills | 🖨️ PDF download
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📘 Skills for Big Feelings eBook Plus Bonus Bundle
- Includes the Skills for Big Feelings eBook.
- Adds 12 interactive Google Slides workbooks with 150 total pages, including 71 interactive pages.
- Includes videos, 45 presentation slides, and 16 relaxation MP3s.
- Features editable documents, family handouts, printable posters, and an implementation schedule.
- Paperback Bonus Bundle version available here.
🌟 Skills for Big Feelings eBook Ultimate Growing Bundle
- Includes the Skills for Big Feelings curriculum, the Bonus Bundle, plus a larger collection of supplemental resources.
- Brings together additional coping skills games, crafts, and activities for reinforcing program concepts.
- Offers expanded opportunities for teaching and practicing emotional regulation skills.
- Paperback Growing Bundle version available here.
🎯 Skills Addressed:
✔️ Identifying, naming, and accepting feelings
✔️ Coping skills and emotional regulation
✔️ Managing anxiety and stress
✔️ Understanding the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
✔️ Mindful breathing, relaxation, and somatic practices
✔️ Flexible thinking and positive self-talk
✔️ Self-awareness, resilience, and self-care
💡 Ways to Use It:
- Follow the 12-week curriculum during individual counseling sessions.
- Adapt the lessons for small-group counseling.
- Introduce coping strategies during classroom SEL lessons.
- Use the coloring workbook to reinforce breathing, relaxation, and body-based strategies.
- Guide students through the relaxation scripts during mindfulness activities.
- Use SMART objectives and planning tools to support individualized goals.
- Share family resources to encourage continued skill practice at home.
👩🏫 Who It's For:
Perfect for school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, licensed mental health counselors, child therapists, special education teachers, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, and educators working with students in grades 1–8.
The curriculum provides a structured yet adaptable approach to supporting emotional awareness, coping skills, and self-regulation during individual, small-group, and classroom instruction.
🖨️ Format & Download:
✔️ Downloadable PDF eBook.
✔️ Reproducible 28-page coloring workbook included in the eBook.
✔️ 16 guided relaxation scripts included in the eBook.
✔️ Counseling and educational planning resources, family materials, and implementation guidance.
This is the standalone eBook edition. It doesn't include the additional interactive Google Slides workbooks, videos, professionally recorded relaxation MP3s, or presentation slides offered in the bonus bundles.
No physical book will be shipped.
📌 Important Notes:
Skills for Big Feelings is designed to support children in learning about emotions and developing practical coping strategies. Lessons can be adapted to students' developmental needs, communication styles, and individual goals.
This listing is for the downloadable eBook edition, not the paperback or expanded bonus bundles.
Digital products are non-returnable.
We want you to be fully satisfied! Returns accepted for paperback only within 30 days of purchase. Buyer pays return shipping (digital products are not-returnable.)
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