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 help children understand some school-related triggers of anger, and to help them learn strategies to manage their anger.

To help children deal with their fears and anxieties.

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 increase awareness about how behavior affects others; to recognize that a child can consider consequences of their behavior to influence a positive outcome.

To increase awareness about I-Messages being an effective communication tool in expressing wants or needs in a non-judgmental, non-confrontational, non-blaming manner.

To increase knowledge about a technique used as a part of hypnotherapy, mediation, desensitization training, or pain control, in which children imagine or visualize a specific image to cope with fears, anxieties, or troublesome behaviors.

To demonstrate how children can cooperate at home.