To increase knowledge about a paradoxical intentionality technique to use when clients are exhibiting mindless behavior patterns that have been resistant to change. The therapist suggests that the client only pretend to have the symptomatic behavior, creating a playful, constructive tone for growth and change.

A tool to document and assess appropriate ways to educate a child and/or to change the environment when a child is exhibiting inappropriate behaviors.

Increase recognition of symptoms and warnings signs of relapsing behavior, and to increase problem-solving in relapse prevention.

To increase knowledge about a technique that helps young children with impulsivity problems. The adult anticipates and prevents possible misbehaviors by controlling the environment with meaningful reinforcers, and teaches the child skills for good behavior.

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 to deal with their fears and anxieties by pushing an imagined relaxation button.

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.