To gain perspective on the consequences of holding onto anger; to increase awareness about the benefit of casting away anger when anger trigger significance isn't as large as originally thought.

To increase awareness about stealing and its implications; to make distinctions between deliberate stealing, and inadvertently taking something that belongs to someone else.

To understand the importance of and think of ways to use appropriate body language and words to cope with teasing and bullying.

To increase knowledge about a parenting technique in which special time is allotted to a child and parent for cooperative play with only positive reinforcement and encouragement. The child is the boss, with no corrective or critical remarks from the parent, strengthening the adult-child relationship.

To increase knowledge about a technique for children with phobic reactions, to focus on a song with a theme of courage or confidence building as a way to block the phobic symptom.

A written template to document information gathered and discussed during a particular counseling session.

To increase knowledge about self-control training, which gives a child the skills and understanding necessary to control problematic symptoms and behaviors by regulating automatic behavior that has become harmful; incorporates cognitive restructuring, role-play, modeling, problem-solving, self-evaluation, and self-reinforcement.