I hope to encourage clients and
teach them skills that will aid in the
recognition and processing of difficult and / or painful
emotions, acknowledgment of the need for change, and assisting them in developing a plan to that will help them move forward.»
The Second Step program
teaches skills such as
emotion recognition and management, empathy, problem solving, bullying prevention, and goal - setting.
The key treatment objectives of CARES are: (a) to enhance attention to critical facial cues signalling distress in child, parents and others, to improve
emotion recognition and labelling; (b) improve emotional understanding by linking
emotion to context, and by identifying contexts and situations that elicit child anger and frustration; (c)
teach prosocial and empathic behaviour through social stories, parent modelling, and role play; (d) increase emotional labelling and prosocial behaviour through positive reinforcement; (e) and increase child's frustration tolerance through modelling, role - playing, and reinforcing child's use of learned cognitive - behavioural strategies to decrease the incidence of aggressive behaviours.