This comprehensive and easy-to-use curriculum is based on the prinicples of Rational Emotion Therapy. The 90 activities in this manual are designed for use in the classroom or in small-group settings.

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This comprehensive and easy-to-use curriculum is based on the principles of Rational Emotion Therapy (RET). It helps students learn to use positive mental health concepts in overcoming irrational beliefs, negative feelings and attitudes, and the negative consequences that may result.

Activites are divided into five categories:
1. Self-Acceptance
2. Feeling
3. Beliefs and Behaviour
4. Problem Solving/Decision Making
5. Interpersonal Relationships

The activities are designed for use in the classroom or in a small-group settings. They include simulation games, stories, role-plays, written activities, brainstorming, and art activities

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Grades 7-8

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

1. I Dare You
2. Circles of Self
3. Who Counts?
4. Who's in Charge?
5. I Want, I Need
6. I'm Not What I Do

FEELINGS

1. Who's Responsible for Feeling?
2. Talk to Yourself
3. I Can, I Can't
4. Avoiding Anger
5. Chain Reactions
6. The ABC's

BELIEFS AND BEHAVIOR

1. Wants and Needs
2. What Will Happen to Me?
3. What Will Happen to Others?
4. Demand or Preference?
5. Drop the Demands
6. Challenging Irrational Beliefs

PROBLEM SOLVING/DECISION MAKING

1. Staying Objective
2. Problems and Peer Pressure
3. What Can You Control?
4. Delaying Solutions
5. Looking Long Term

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

1. Should They or Shouldn't They?
2. How Irritating?
3. The Conflict-Belief Connection
4. Approval and Consequences
5. Stand Up for Yourself!
6. Accepting Others

Grades 9-10

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

1. Erase the Slate
2. What's Important to Me
3. Criticism
4. You're Great!
5. Success/Failure
6. Increase Your Successes

FEELINGS

1. Payoffs
2. Reactions
3. Moods
4. Guilt and Shame
5. Worry, Fear, and Anxiety
6. Tough Emotions

BELIEFS AND BEHAVIOR

1. Copping Out
2. Avoidance
3. Why Cop Out?
4. Tolerating Frustration
5. Alternatives to Aggression
6. Be Assertive!

PROBLEM SOLVING/DECISION MAKING

1. Signs of Stress
2. What Makes It Stressful?
3. Stress Management
4. Action or Reaction
5. Solutions
6. Ripple Effects

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

1. Mad at 'Em
2. Dependent and Independent Relationships
3. Resolving Relationship Issues
4. Changing Relationships
5. I Want, I Demand

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

1. Can't Do, Won't Do
2. Down and Out
3. Personal Power
4. Avoiding Put-Downs
5. Self-Worth
6. Affirm Yourself

FEELINGS

1. Defenses
2. Owning Your Emotions
3. Thoughts and Feelings
4. Coping with Painful Feelings
5. Dealing with Depression
6. In Our Own Best Interests

BELIEFS AND BEHAVIOR

1. Argue with Yourself
2. Control Your Impulses
3. SDB's
4. Believing and Behaving
5. Defeat the SDB's
6. What's Influential?

PROBLEM SOLVING/DECISION MAKING

1. Ideal Solutions
2. Not a Problem, an Opportunity
3. Put It in Perspective
4. Rational or Emotional?
5. Goals
6. How to Decide

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

1. Change Them?
2. Negative Feelings towards Others
3. Self-Talk
4. Depend on ME?
5. I Can't Live without Him/Her
6. What's Desirable?

INDEX OF ACTIVITIES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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