Feelings & Emotions

Supporting the mental health of adolescentsby Michael Pohl Adolescence can be a time of great vulnerability as many teenagers grapple with changed expectations and demands, peer pressure, a desire to fit in, and the need to be valued and accepted as an individual. It is also a pivotal time of transition, as how a young person feels about themselves and their place in the world can profoundly shape the emerging adult. Understanding Feelings is all about equipping young people with the...

These visual supports encourage the active use of 10 Social Thinking Vocabulary concepts that lay the foundation for social learning, which are fundamental to the social experience and are relevant across languages, cultures, and ages (starting at age 4). While they are a small set of our broader teaching platform, they are an important place to begin an individual’s discovery into their own social-emotional learning as well as discovering the social world that surrounds them, regardless of...

Ages: 4-7Format: PaperbackPublished: 2016Authors: Ryan Hendrix, Kari Zweber Palmer, Nancy Tarshis and Michelle Garcia WinnerNow for the first time in one great-value bundle! We Thinkers! is the premier social emotional learning series from Social Thinking® for helping social learners ages 4–7 develop foundational social competencies. These practice-proven, evidence-based materials are designed for both typically developing children and those with social learning challenges to strengthen social...

By Ryan E. Hendrix, Kari Zweber Palmer, Nancy Tarshis and Michelle Garcia WinnerThe We Thinkers! series helps children build fundamental social competencies and improve their social and academic performance. Teachers, clinicians, and parents give it rave reviews!We Thinkers! Volume 2 picks up where Volume 1 left off. The concepts across the series are sequential. It's important to use Volume 1 before moving on to Volume 2.In Volume 2 Social Problem Solvers we explore how to figure out the social...

A Relaxation Book for Children Who Live with AnxietyWritten and Illustrated by Kari Dunn Buron Worry and anxiety are on an upswing. In fact, anxiety is the most frequent of all mental disorders in children. High levels of stress and big emotions related to social situations, sensory issues, or general frustration are common in children who live with anxiety. Such stress can lead to a loss of control, resulting in aggressive behaviour, such as screaming, throwing things or even hurting someone....

By Susan BowmanIn this full-colour illustrated book children describe their families including what they like to do together. The wonderfully illustrated drawings bring out the uniqueness of each family. Children are encouraged to describe their own families and create some fun activities they can do together. Some of the families described include:parent in the militarysingle parentincarcerated parentadoptive parentsfoster parentsmulticultural parentssame gender parentsterminally ill parentsand...

By Susan Bowman and Karen Dean Recent research has shown that an average of 8% of children as young as 8 years old are engaging in self-injuring behaviours. This book provides a first-of-its-kind, story-based tool for helping these young people. Elisa, 11 years old, has started purposely hurting herself. No one understands why she wants to do these things, not even her mother. When her self-injuring becomes more noticeable, a teacher takes her to speak with the school counsellor. Elisa...

Winston the Worried Whale is a fun and captivating storytime resource that will help teachers approach the sensitive subject of worries with young children.Age: pre-school to 8Written by Alice Griffin, Illustrated by Heidi RivoltaIn this imaginatively illustrated picture book, loveable character Winston takes children on a journey through his worries, in turn helping them to think about how they can ease their own. The additional resources - printable from a FREE CD-Rom - offer numerous...

Authors: Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke The social world is a big, complicated place where we are all social detectives as we observe, gather, and make sense of the clues in different social contexts (settings, situations, and the people in them) to figure out the hidden rules for expected behaviours, as well as to understand how we each feel and think about others in a situation. This 2nd edition teaches social learners the power of observation, reading context, and interpreting clues...

THIS ITEM IS DISCOUNTED AS IT HAS BEEN DAMAGED, SCUFFED, CREASED OR DENTED IN TRANSIT OR IN THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS. THIS ITEM IS PERFECTLY USABLE BUT WILL HAVE SOME COSMETIC DAMAGE.RETURNS WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR THIS ITEM Authors: Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke The social world is a big, complicated place where we are all social detectives as we observe, gather, and make sense of the clues in different social contexts (settings, situations, and the people in them) to figure out...

Authors: Pamela Crooke, Michelle Garcia Winner, Kari Zweber Palmer Bring social emotional learning into the classroom!Thousands of schools, clinics, and homes have found the award-winning storybook, You Are a Social Detective! (Winner & Crooke, 2020), to be a practical, engaging addition to their libraries. While simply reading the storybook is educational, the social and emotional concepts are ripe for deeper teaching in whole-class and small-group settings. The You Are a Social Detective!...

Authors: Pamela Crooke, Michelle Garcia Winner, Kari Zweber PalmerBring social emotional learning for children ages 5-10+ into your classroom. This bundle includes the award-winning storybook, You Are a Social Detective! 2nd Edition and its new companion Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide, an easy-to-use curriculum that fits into your current teaching day. The storybook introduces students to core social emotional learning (SEL) concepts, and the curriculum provides 10 fun, structured...

By Leah Kuypers The Zones STOP, OPT and GO poster is a companion product to the self-regulation curriculum The Zones of Regulation®, by Leah Kuypers, and aligns with Lesson 17 in the book. Many students who struggle with self-regulation have difficulty with impulse control and figuring out alternative solutions to conflicts. These students can get stuck on one way to do something and have difficulty trying other people's ideas or alternatives. STOP, OPT and GO gives students an easy-to-remember...

Ages: 5-10Format: Bundle without GamesPublished: 2021Authors: Leah Kuypers, Elizabeth SautterAre you teaching The Zones of Regulation curriculum to children at developmental ages 5-11? This bundle provides two engaging, visual ways to supplement and extend regulation curriculum lessons with fidelity. This set contains two sequential storybooks with relatable characters, social scenarios, and metacognitive strategies that bring regulation lessons to life. They introduce each of the four Zones of...

By Leah Kuypers The Zones Triggers poster is a companion product to the self-regulation curriculum The Zones of Regulation®, by Leah Kuypers, and coordinates with Lesson 9 "Caution! Triggers Ahead" in the book. The poster is designed as a tool adults can use to help students gain awareness of their personal triggers that lead them to the Yellow or Red Zone.A student's ability to self-regulate fluctuates throughout the day. Students may find themselves in any one or more of the four...