To teach children about sequential problem-solving steps by analyzing various strategies and the steps involved before choosing the best one to use for goal attainment.

To increase knowledge about a technique where the child is invited to participate in role-playing and skits in which he reenacts relevant and sometimes painful aspects of his own history, while providing distance from his distress.

To help children learn that managing conflict is most easily accomplished when analyzing the problem itself, or looking for something outside the children involved, instead of looking for blame.

To increase knowledge about RET, a technique that helps a child change negative ways of interpreting events and learn more positive ways to interpret and evaluate situations; a sequential 17-session counseling protocol is suggested to follow.

To increase knowledge about a technique where attempts are made to build or restore bonding between a child under age 6 and a primary caretaker by re-creating a sense of trust and unconditional bonding, so the child can associate other adults with positive nurturing and respond appropriately.

To increase knowledge about a technique of verbal relabeling of behavior by putting the behavior into a new, usually more positive, perspective in situations or relationships where rigidity or inflexible views of reality exist; to encourage a wider range of responses for the child or family.

To learn general relaxation exercises for coping with anger, to enhance concentration and improve self-esteem, and to reflect on their usefulness through journaling.

To follow and complete with written self-reflections a specific relaxation exercise protocol