Self Soothing Curriculum
What is it?
How many proactive techniques do your students know how to use in order to deal with the effects of stress? Probably none. This is an 8 part curriculum designed to teach them several effective ways of dealing with the stress response. The curriculum may be run for 8 separate sessions.
How do you use it?
Starting with an explanation of the stress response and the physical and psychological effects of it, the curriculum starts out with a belly breathing activity. It continues through the remaining 7 segments, finishing up with a reading relaxation activity.
What do you achieve?
- Teach students about stress
- Teach students the results of chronic stress and why it must be managed
- Teach students 8 different proactive approaches to dealing with stress
What is included in the kit?
- 8 Complete scripts and masters involving
- Belly Breathing
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Origami
- Drawing (as seen elsewhere on this site)
- Mental Imaging (two different scripts)
- Music Therapy
- Progressive Muscle Relaxation
- Relaxation Reading Activities
- 30 Plastic stress cards which measure finger tip temperature
- 1 Audio tape or CD of relaxation music
- 1 Classroom set of stress rubberbands
How much does it cost?
The kit costs $ 45. with audio tape or $ 50. with CD.
Set of 30 stress cards alone is $ 20.
Additional stress cards are 80¢ each.
