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 improve time management skills by considering how procrastination can deflect a student; to set priorities and develop an efficient action plan.

To increase knowledge about the value of reinforcing prosocial behavior that solves problems in the community, including writing letters to facilitate change, volunteering, and doing work to improve the environment.

To increase self-awareness about the emotion, proud, visually and experientially, and to recognize when to be proud of someone else.

To increase awareness about the benefits of having compassion for animals, to understand the impact of acts of kindness to homeless animals.

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.