To provide a strategy for children to write about their dreams for self-reflection or as a way to initiate communication between a counselor and client. To provide a vehicle for rewriting dreams with more positive outcomes.

To record change in thoughts or actions surrounding anxiety-provoking situations as a way of keeping track of progress or regression.

To raise awareness about a technique where exposure to object or situation causing anxiety gradually habituates client to that situation.

To help children understand that anger sometimes masks sadness; to raise awareness about the value of expressing rather than suppressing anger.

To raise awareness about a technique that directs a problem or conflict outward from the child experiencing it, so that the problem is separated from the individual and conceptualized as a concrete enemy that can be challenged.

To raise awareness about a behavioral therapy for children who have experienced a very specific trauma or fear.