Therapy Games for Kids Age 7-14 to Develop Awareness of Thoughts, Emotions & Behaviors, Improve Social Skills, Coping Skills and Enhance Self Control, 15-Games-in-1. Updated Version 2024

Product Description

Playing CBT is a therapy game for kids and adolescents based on the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approach. It is designed to accompany treatment processes in children and adolescents or to be used as a fun game dealing with everyday family life. The game is intended to help children, adolescents and parents identify the different components of emotional experience (thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behavior) and to provide the grounds for reflection and discussion aimed at improving daily coping and encouraging flexibility in cognitive, emotional, physical and behavioral responses. The game is the best therapy game for kids and adolescents you can find on the market. Playing CBT is a therapy game to develop an awareness of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors for improving social skills, coping skills, emotion regulation, self-regulation, and enhancing self-control. The game offers a wide variety of options and opens a doorway to comprehensive therapy work that is both creative and enjoyable.

Behavioral cognitive therapy is not child’s play. With Playing CBT, it can be.

THERPAY GAME – The game is specifically designated for therapists, school counselor supplies, educators, and facilitators to be used with children and adolescents. It can be used in individual therapy and group session. It was created to help kids with anxiety, social skills difficulties, problem solving, ADHD, emotional difficulties, depression and behavioral problems.

MULTIPLE GAMES – Based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach: Playing CBT is a therapy game kit that gives the kids hours of fun playing with more than 15 games which contain all the ABCD model parts. Many different options are available. For example, the emotion board, the cognitive distraction board, the automatic thought board and much more ( 240 playing cards).

EMOTION MANAGEMENT KIT – This fun game kit is for kids between the ages of 7-and 14. It helps them to manage their emotions and they have lots of fun doing it. The game is geared to help children identify their feelings and gives them the skills to cope with pleasant and unpleasant emotions.

SELF REGULATION – this card game gives the players the understanding that although we can’t always choose our events, thoughts, and feelings, we can always choose the way we wish to behave, by learning mindfulness techniques, coping thoughts, breathing techniques, problem-solving, etc.

BONUS INSTRUCTION BOOK – A 78-page high quality, colorful, and extremely well-explained instruction book. This booklet takes you by the hand, giving you step-by-step instructions and lots of great ideas on how to combine different options. I have included all my ideas and secrets from the hours of supervision and treatment with children and parents. you won’t find this in any other games

15 Different Games

Emotion Board Game

Playing CBT is a unique game that provides therapists with quick, direct access to children’s actual emotional worlds in a fun and creative way. While playing, children learn to identify the diverse elements of their emotional experience, practice being more flexible with their thinking, emotions, sensations, and behavior, and discover alternative and better ways of dealing with the different situations they encounter in their everyday lives.

Blank cards

Blank cards – each card group contains blank cards that allow participants to add their own personal world to the game by writing with a dry erase marker. Participants can write on them before or during the game.

Kit components

– 6 Game Boards: Emotion Board, Physical Sensation Board, Thinking Traps Glasses Board, Automatic Thought Board, Bingo Board, ABC Model Board.

2 Small boards: emotion and physical sensation boards.

9 Packs of cards: Task cards (light green), Event cards (green), Negative thought cards (red), Coping thought cards (light blue), Emotion cards (blue), Physical sensation cards (orange), Behavior cards (purple) “Detective” cards (yellow), 12 Thinking Trap Glasses cards.

– Instruction book: A 78 page high quality, colorful and extremely well explained instruction boo

cards game

Negative thought cards – Coping thought cards

This is an advanced stage in therapy, in which we identify thoughts and the emotions and behavior that accompany them. We understand that it’s ok to question our thoughts and not necessarily see them as facts. The questions presented by the detective cards do not rule out negative thoughts, but they allow us to discuss our cognitive distortions, examine new perspectives in the way we reflect on our thoughts, and even apply flexible thinking. The purpose of these cards is to practice different ways of thinking about events without invalidating our first automatic thought.

ABC Model

The cognitive-behavioral theory links event-thought-emotion-feeling-behavior. Its underlying premise is that the element that affects our emotions and behavior is our automatic thought, not the events in our lives.

The cognitive-behavioral theory argues that recognizing negative automatic thoughts behind high-intensity emotions and changing or accepting them as mere thoughts, will bring about a change in the intensity of these emotions or transform them into different emotions, which are more suitable to the experienced event.

Thinking Traps Glasses

Thinking Traps are types of thoughts that cause us to perceive reality differently from how it really is, triggering feelings of negativity. You can find an explanation about each Thinking Trap on the back of the board, through the Thinking Glasses cards.

Created by a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist to aid kids to cope with anxiety, ADHD, emotional difficulties, depression & behavioral issues
15 games suitable for 7-14 year olds, based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & covering all ABCD model parts
Help identify feelings & provide skills to cope with emotions in a relaxed atmosphere using mindfulness, coping thoughts, breathing techniques, etc.
Excellent quality, the game consists of 240 cards plus Emotion, Cognitive Distraction, Automatic Thought Boards and more
Comes with a 79-page instruction book to successfully combine this game with therapy sessions