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Agenda for Younger Child Social Skills Group

5:30-7:00pm
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Session 1

Group rules (ZJ has handout with rules)


o Brainstorm ideas for group name
o Vote on group name
Names/nametag activity with colored paper
o Add things to your nametag that you like about yourself, things
youd like others to know about you
Icebreaker: crinkle paper
o Everyone sits in a circle and we go around and pick 1 piece of
paper from the bucket/bowl. You have to say something about
yourself based on the color of the paper you got.
Blue what makes you sad
Yellow something that makes you happy
Green a time you were jealous
Pink something that makes you upset
Inside out clips (Youtube ZJ will pull these up)
o Talk after viewing each clip relate to crinkle activity
Feeling thermometer (from Dr. Kevin Antshel see below)
Ice Cream Cone icebreaker (see below)
Treasure chest each child can pick a prize from the treasure chest IF
they followed group rules [did we want to designate a rule of the day?]

ANTSHEL MATERIAL SESSION 1


Challenge Assignment

1. Have your child create an emotional thermometer for


anxiety, sadness and anger. Examples are above.
2. At the end of each day, have your child use a post-it note
to rate 2 several incidents from that day on each scale.
For example, if the scale is anger, ask your child to
identify 2 incidents that made him/her angry over the
day and post the post-it notes on the correct
thermometer temperature. Do the same for sadness
and anxiety.
3. Leave the post-it notes on the scales until the next day.
Remind your child of the post-it notes on several
occasions throughout the day.
4. The underlying objective of this task is to have
your child appreciate emotional gradations and
various levels of emotional intensity.

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