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What are Interactive Tools?
Interactive tools are digital activities, stories, guided exercises, and other resources that teach and support mental health interventions. Find interactive and beautifully designed tools for all ages, covering topics like anxiety, relationships, ADHD, anger, and more.
Interactive Tools Types
Games & Activities
We've created activities that explain mental health concepts while also being fun and engaging. Teach children about anxiety with Worry Bugs, help clients identify feelings with Where I Feel, or lead an adult group with Mental Health BINGO.
Guided Audio
Teach relaxation and coping skills with the help of professional audio tools. You'll find materials for all ages covering mindfulness, grounding exercises, and more. Best of all: Download and share these tools for your clients to practice at home.
Educational Storybooks
Follow along with Mouse, Rabbit, Bear, and others as they teach kids about topics such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, divorce, bullying, and more. Stories include supplemental worksheets to reinforce learning.
…and More!
From the Values Assessment to the Mandala Builder, there's a lot more to discover. Use interactive tools to keep your sessions engaging, whether meeting virtually or in your office.
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The Angry Otter an anger management story
Description Follow along with Otter as they learn about anger triggers, warning signs, and coping skills. The Angry Otter features 16 pages of bright and colorful illustrations to keep kids engaged as they learn about anger. Suggested Uses Comparison: Teach children about anger by comparing their own anger triggers and signs of anger to those of Otter. Is Otter relatable? Is Otter different in any way? (Other than being an otter, that is!) Coping Skill Practice: During the story, Otter learns several techniques to manage anger. Pause whenever Otter learns a skill and try it out. Then, share the accompanying Anger Coping Skills worksheet as a take-home reminder to reinforce learning. Accompanying worksheet: Anger Coping Skills for Kids worksheet monkey
Where I Feel emotion identification activity
Description Before a person can learn to manage their emotions, they must learn to identify them. Like most skills, identifying emotions can be learned, practiced, and improved. For children, identifying emotions as they're occurring is an especially tall challenge. Even adults, with a lifetime of experience, are often caught off-guard by their feelings. One technique that anyone can use to better spot emotions is to learn about the clues their body gives. Many emotion clues come in the form of physical sensations. For example, a person who is angry might turn red and feel hot in the face. As their anger progresses, they may clench their fists and begin to tremble. In the Where I Feel interactive activity, your clients will draw where they feel various emotions throughout their body. This creates a great opportunity to help your clients explore and identify their personal emotion clues. When done, the drawing can be printed or saved as a graphic. Suggested Uses Teach Emotion Words & Symptoms: Help children name and identify basic emotions, and where they exist within their bodies. What does it feel like to be happy? Sad? Worried? Try discussing specific examples the child has experienced. Session Check-In: When used as a check-in, ask clients to draw where they have felt emotions during the past week, or at that very moment in session. Exploration: After a sharing a story, this activity may be used to look for emotional clues. What sensations might your client notice next time they're in a similar situation, and what might these clues tell them about their emotional state?
Desert Visualization guided audio activity
Description Step away from your daily stresses to go on a journey through an awe-inspiring desert and a mysterious canyon. A professional voice actor narrates this soothing guided imagery exercise, while a custom soundscape creates an immersive experience. In addition to relaxing music, enjoy the sounds of a stream, waterfall, crickets, and birds, among others. Duration: 14 minutes 30 seconds Suggested Uses Education: Visualization is a powerful tool for lowering anxiety and making difficult emotions more manageable. This guided imagery exercise shifts attention away from anxious thinking through vivid descriptions of some of the sights, sounds, smells, and textures associated with the desert. It also creates a sense of mystery as listeners travel to a secluded waterwall in a captivating canyon. Practice: Use this exercise for relaxation and emotional grounding, or as a prelude to sleep. Download: Feel free to download a copy of the guided imagery exercise in MP3 format so you can use it when needed (but please, not while driving!). The license also allows you to share the audio file with your clients for practicing at home.
Focus Fish
Focus Fish is an engaging, educational activity about ADHD. Children select and name a fish character who will guide them through 5 interactive activities, such as card matching and sentence completion.
Through simple and encouraging language, kids will learn what ADHD is, identify their own challenges related to ADHD, and practice coping skills. After completing each of the activities, you can print the results in a colorful packet to encourage children and caregivers to review what they’ve learned.
Managing the symptoms of ADHD can have a dramatic positive effect on a child’s school performance, social relationships, and self-esteem.
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The Penguin with Two Homes
Follow along as penguin learns about divorce, and how to cope with a changing family. The Penguin with Two Homes is a 16 page digital story, full of bright and colorful illustrations to keep children engaged as they learn about divorce.
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Wander through a towering red-rock canyon. Soak in a hot spring on a windswept island. Stroll through a charming city in search of a hidden courtyard.
Our guided imagery audio blends professional narration with stunning soundscapes to immerse you in these exotic locations. Just sit back, press play, and enjoy being whisked away!
Share these resources with your clients to help them escape the stressors of daily life, create a pleasant nighttime routine, or connect with a sense of wonder.
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Worksheets
Fillable versions of Therapist Aid worksheets allow you and your clients to complete and share responses digitally, without the need to print. Personalize worksheets by integrating your own branding or contact information. Add notes or examples tailored to your clients' age and situation.
Telehealth-Friendly
Telehealth sessions are now an integral part of therapy. On most platforms, you can easily share and use our tools with clients, from our worksheets, articles, and guides to our videos, audio tracks, and educational stories. Incorporate our resources into your online sessions to add structure, focus, and variety.
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