To learn the importance of rest and relaxation, and identify ways to get it.

To increase knowledge about response prevention, which is a technique that uses systematic exposure to an object that is causing fear or anxiety.

To follow and complete with written self-reflections a specific relaxation exercise protocol

To learn general relaxation exercises for coping with anger, to enhance concentration and improve self-esteem, and to reflect on their usefulness through journaling.

To help children deal with their fears and anxieties.

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

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.