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There were a few posts this week on some forums about how to engage children in an online therapeutic delivery. Following lots of interests in this space as many are preparing to work online, in this text, I provide links to different resources and online tools in the reference/links section. I have provided some therapy online and also lots of supervision, but I felt I needed to equip myself so I did some research as well as reflecting on different activities I already do in professional practice and how I can adapt these in an online platform. Here are 10 therapeutic activities with children when working online.
10 Therapeutic Activities With Children when Working Online
Virtual Therapy Rooms
To store all online resources in one place
Create engaging sessions
Communicate with parents effectively
How amazing is that!
https://learning.3ppsychologies.com/courses/virtual-therapy-rooms
THE THERAPIST BACKPACK
Interested in building amazing resources for online and face to face therapeutic work with children, visit the 3P page for a backpack with lots of resources, book and activities.
Support for Building Resources
A few Facebook groups have evolved in the last few days. These may be helpful to network with many.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2377497079019547/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/211354563275804/
You can also find a few videos that have been developed by professionals working in the field.
Online Resources/Tools
As you are working from home, you may not have all access to your office typical tools, so you may need to be a little more creative about finding different resources and/or using specific screeners. I add below a number of links that may help you with that.
https://www.therapistaid.com/tools
https://innovativeresources.org/product-category/digital-applications/
https://www.psycom.net/25-best-mental-health-apps
FREE Mindfulness and relaxation exercises and stories for younger children(primary age). https://www.mindfulschools.org/free-online-mindfulness-class-for-kids/
Calm have provided lots of free resources. https://www.calm.com/blog/take-a-deep-breath
Example of a video book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIWXpiy8wwo&fbclid=IwAR3Q6M-yXA2Zwqt_Wu_b40Nz48iEsKcKY2j1rX_TZ39N5RfgcwDuNf3l_OA
A story to help young children manage their thoughts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd7Cr265zgc
A short meditation for young children to help them manage their emotions by cosmic kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf5K3pP2IUQ
A movement meditation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buPuB4Sa0zU
Thank you for sharing and all the lovely feedback we received as a result of this text.
Pascale is an educational and child psychologist (UK)/educational and developmental psychologist (AU) working in private practice, a university clinic and doing online supervision for professionals via individual, group, webinars and training.
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These are so thoughtful! I’m so grateful to you for sharing these resources
Take care, Emma
Thank you for the lovely feedback, glad it is helpful.
Thank ups Emma for the lovely feedback, it is helpful, more to come this week
Thanks so much for this information, it was very helpful!
I’m wondering if you or anybody knows any free games that can be played with kids over videoconferencing software?
Thank you so much, these are great ideas.
Thank you Mollie for the lovely feedback!
Thank you for the feedback