Any Game Cards. Max Nass & Marcia Nass, $26.95 (ages 6 and up)

The Any Game Cards package was developed for use with popular games. Simply add in these one sentence cards to any game to make the game into a therapeutic tool for young children. There are six different card sets featuring relevant questions about Bullying; Social Skills; Self Esteem; Character Development and Health. Clinicians can also use the cards as a tool for opening up discussion in individual or group sessions.

Boundaries Baseball®. Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (for 2-6 players; grades 1-4)

Players have a great time playing baseball  as they learn to understand and respect boundaries.

Breaking the Chains of Anger®. Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95

Breaking the Chains of Anger® is an educational board game designed to teach important concepts and practical skills for controlling anger and avoiding violence. Players earn play money by giving good advice on how to deal with frustrating and anger provoking situations, both at school and at home. Players are introduced to the concept that anger can carry you away towards actions that will be regretted later. Skills are introduced that help players stay calm, make good decisions, and prepare for difficult situations. Grades 5 - 8 (also suitable for older special needs students).

Bridge Over Worried Waters  Franklin Leaning Systems, $34.50 Grades 1-8

Anxiety affects normal day-to-day activities and causes considerable emotional and physical distress as well as impaired academic and social functioning.  The recommended treatment approach for anxiety is overwhelmingly Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT).  CBT helps children learn to handle their fears and worries by modifying the ways they think and behave.  Techniques included in CBT are relaxation, positive self-talk and coping behaviors.  Bridge Over Worried Waters is essentially a CBT program in a box that incorporates all of these techniques.

Bullies to Buddies®. Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (Grades 2-5)

Bullies to Buddies® is an educational game that deals with the complex nature of bullying in a way that elementary school students can understand and learn specific skills. Players learn that all students must take a stand against bullying. Players learn in the game that they can do a great deal to discourage bullying, even with things as simple as telling a bully to stop or refusing to laugh at a bully’s mean jokes.

Bully Safe. Franklin Leaning Systems, $23.95 Grades 5-8

Bully Safe is an educational card game that teaches a systems approach to reducing bullying behavior. 

The Choices Game: Staying Safe in Social Situations. Christopher McMaster, $43.95

This fun, interactive game teaches vulnerable young people how to make positive choices and develop the social skills they need to stay safe in school and in the wider community.

The Chronic Illness Game. Isabelle Streng & A.M. Stradmeijer, $81.95 (ages 6 to 16)

The Chronic Illness Game facilitates the improvement of social skills and coping strategies in children with a chronic illness who often suffer from impaired psychological and social development. The goal of the game is to achieve sharing and understanding of the isolation and the painful and complex feelings experienced by children with a chronic medical condition. Based on an integrative psychotherapy model, it incorporates systemic and cognitive-behavioural orientations and should be facilitated by a health or mental health professional (who may participate as a co-player) and is intended for use with groups of up to six players — with families or individuals.

Kids learn friendship-building skills such as listening, patience and paying attention, and how to deal with various friendship issues, such as teasing, bullies, jealousy, anger and more.

Circle of Respect®. Franklin Leaning Systems, $49.95 Grades 5-8

Understanding the concept of respect and developing the ability to show respect in a variety of situations are vital for success in school and throughout life. Circle of Respect® is an educational game specifically designed to teach students (1) the guiding principle that showing respect is the best way to receive respect, and (2) specific ways that they can show respect in four important areas of their lives – with family, with friends, at school and in the community.

Conflict Busters® Franklin Learning Systems, $51.95 (Grades 2-5)

Conflict Busters® is a cooperative educational game with a space travel theme. It is designed to teach important knowledge and skills for conflict resolution. Anger control skills are also included. Since the game is cooperative, rather than competitive, the students practice and learn cooperative skills as they participate in a space journey to Saturn, which is represented by a jigsaw puzzle in the center of the board. Players earn puzzle pieces by answering questions about conflict resolution and complete their “mission” when they have completed the puzzle.

Consequences Board Game. $39.95 (2-4 players; ages 3 and up)

The game of CONSEQUENCES is a fun way to introduce or reinforce the idea that there are consequences for all actions and behavior. Each card has an everyday task or behavior that results in a forward or backward move. Follow the colorful stone path to the park, take a ride on the slide, go for ice cream, and end at Waterland!

Count On Me.Franklin Learning Systems, $59.95

Players have fun learning how to be responsible at home, in school, with friends and in the community.

Doggone Grief Game. Aultman Grief Services, $49.95 (ages 3+)

Doggone Grief is a children's board game designed to help kids share their feelings about a special person who died.

Dr. PlayWell’s Coping with Stress Card Game. 2-4 players, $26.95 (ages 6-12)

This fun-filled game teaches children how to handle stress using well-researched stress reduction techniques that include: Deep Breathing & Muscle Relaxation; Visualization; Self-Talk; and Creating a Healthy Lifestyle.

Other Dr. PlayWell card games include:

Caring About Others Card Game; Communicating Feelings Card Game; Controlling Anger Card Game; Dr. PlayWell’s Positive Thinking Card Game. For 2-4 players, $26.95 each (ages 6-12)

Dr. Playwell’s “Sure I Can” Game.  $54.95 (2-4 players, ages 6-12)

A game that teaches the importance of positive attitude.

Dr. PlayWell's Worry Less Game. 2-4 players, $54.95 (ages 5-12)

This game can help children with fears and anxiety disorders, and it can also be used as a prevention tool. As players try to capture the Worry Monsters, they learn important steps for dealing with persistent worry such as identifying feelings, self-calming, making positive self-statements, changing negative thoughts, planning, coping with difficult feelings, and self-monitoring.

Also: Dr. PlayWell's Game of Self-Control $57.95; Dr. PlayWell's Don’t Pick On Me Game $61.95; Dr. Playwell’s Don’t Stress Game $60.95; Dr. Playwell’s Best Behavior Game $64.95; Dr. Playwell’s Think Positive Game $61.95

The Emotional Intelligence Game™. Franklin Learning Systems, $39.95 (2-5 players; Grades 2-8)

Emotional intelligence is the ability to handle one's own emotions and to read and respond to others' emotions in ways that create positive relationships. Research tells us that emotional intelligence may have more to do with life success than cognitive intelligence or academic performance. Mental health professionals agree that it is a protective/resiliency factor against depression, anxiety, anti-social behaviors and drug/alcohol dependence.  

There are two versions of the game and corresponding sets of rules, competitive and cooperative.  The game utilizes the techniques of both CBT (cognitive behavior therapy) and social learning theory to help the players build their emotional intelligence.

Escape from Anger Island® Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (Grades 1-5)

It is difficult to teach children anger management skills, but it can be done with patience and practice. Escape from Anger Island™ includes a reproducible Anger Management Checklist and a Skills Record (to keep track of which players have practiced which skills), and a facilitator booklet with complete lesson plans, suggested activities for practice between sessions, and questions for discussion. Escape from Anger Island® is a fun and inventive way to help kids learn about anger.

Feelings Fair®. Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (Grades 1 – 5)

Feelings Fair® is a new board game specifically designed to give students important skills for recognizing feelings in themselves and others, expressing feelings in a mature way, and handling difficult situations that involve strong or negative feelings. The game box contains two sets of Solving Problem Cards (one for grades 1 and 2, and one for grades 3 - 5).

Feelings FLASHCARDS. Todd Parr, $16.99

A great way for kids to share — and learn about — all kinds of emotions.

Friendship Explorers®. Franklin Learning Systems, $34.50, Grades 1–7    

Friendship Explorers® is a cooperative game that helps players understand similarities and respect differences.  Players answer open-ended questions to earn pieces to a 9” x 21” jigsaw puzzle map of the world.  Everyone wins when the puzzle (see below) is completed.  This game will help build a community that fosters honesty, acceptance, and mutual respect.  

Friendship Island®. Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (for 2-6 players; grades 1-4)

Social skills needed for positive peer relations are some of the most important skills to be learned during elementary school years. Friendship Island® is an educational game specifically designed to teach these skills to students. The game focuses on the three vital areas of friendship: making friends, being a good friend and resolving disagreements in a win-win way.

Girl Games: Five Fun Card Games for Girls Grades 5-12 That Teach Important Social Skills. Trice Black, $22.95

The 5 games in this colourful deck are fun and easy to play. Cards include different topics with thought-provoking questions that can help facilitate meaningful discussions. Each card game focuses on one aspect of bullying or relational aggression such as:

Respect, Safety, Lying, Gossip, Bullying, Rumors, Self-Improvement, Body Image, Pride, Emotions & Communication, Conflicts, Listening, Patience and more

Go Fish Card Games. Franklin Learning Systems, $14.50 Each

Play-2-Learn GO FISH® play like classic Go Fish. There are two decks of 50 cards in each game — one for grades K-2 and the other for grades 3-5. The games differ from classic Go Fish in that players must answer a question before they can accept a requested card. Instead of the usual number and picture cards, the cards have fun pictures of fish and fish names. For example, a player may ask, "Do you have any Henry Herrings?"  If the player receives a Henry Herring card, the player reads the question on the card aloud and answers it. All questions are open ended. If the player did not have any Henry Herrings, the player would say, "go fish," and then the first player would take a card form the "ocean" (extra cards in the center of the table). Each game also comes with a rules sheet and facilitator guidelines.

Play-2-Learn GO FISH® games are $14.50 each:

Go FISH: Anchor Your Stress 
Go FISH: Beware of Bully Bait 
Go FISH: Cast Away Conflict 
Go FISH: Catch and Release Your Anger
Go FISH: Catch Good Character
Go FISH: Fishing for Feelings
Go FISH: Hooked on Friendship
Go FISH: Reel in Responsibility
Go FISH: Stream of Self-Esteem 

Good-Bye Bully Machine Card Game. Debbie Fox & Allan Beane, $15.99 (grades 5 & up)

As players talk and learn about bullying, they work together as a team to break apart the cold, mean Bully Machine.

Helping, Sharing and Caring Board Game:  a game to promote communication and social skills.  2-6 players, $60.95 (ages 4-11)

Helping, Sharing and Caring Card Game. $26.95

Hey, Dad! Let's Talk: a Game for Keeping Families Connected. $27.50 (ages 3 and up)

Sometimes fathers and children find it hard to talk to each other. Hey Dad! Let's Talk is an easy and fun to play board game designed to help dads and kids build stronger relationships. For 2-5 players.

Hidden Rules Card Game. ChildsWork ChildsPlay, $26.95 (ages 6-12)

Hidden Rules is a term used to describe the unwritten social rules and behaviors that most of us seem to know without ever being taught. This fun card game will help children learn and practice 40 hidden rules for everyday life.  For 2-8 players

How Do You Feel? A Facial Expression Puzzle Game. $11.50 (ages 3 and up)

How is the child in the photo feeling? Search and find the pieces to show the same expression! Not only will this game increase visual discrimination skills, it is a great tool for talking about feelings. How Do You Feel can be enjoyed as a solitary matching activity or played as a game with two to five children.

The Impulse Control Game™. Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (Grades 2 – 7)

The Impulse Control Game™ is an educational and therapeutic board game designed to help young people with ADD, ADHD, and other conditions involving impulse control problems. The game box includes a teacher booklet with complete lesson plans, suggested one-on-one coaching activities, a list of activities to give to parents that will help them reinforce the skills learned in the game, references to the studies that demonstrate the efficacy of the skills in the game, and suggestions for further reading.

Intelligent Anger™ Franklin Learning Systems, $51.95 (Grades 5-8)

Intelligent Anger™ is designed to teach young people the skills that will help them look objectively at anger-provoking situations and react in a thoughtful, assertive, and respectful way.

Journey to Friendsville™ Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (Grades 1-5)

Board games are a very effective way to teach social skills, but many counselors do not have the time to play a traditional board game with their clients. Journey to Friendsville™ is designed with the busy counselor in mind. Kids learn social skills and how to develop rewarding friendships in 15 minute increments as they journey on the game board towards the town of Friendsville. There are five skills in total, and one skill is the focus of each 15 minute session. Kids can play multiple times to learn all five skills.

Let's Talk About Separation and Divorce Card Game. ChildsWork ChildsPlay, $19.95 (ages 4-12)

These cards are intended to give children the opportunity to express their feelings. Each one is designed to help kids accept the reality of separation or divorce, to cope with stress, to have a positive self-image, to see friends and family as a source of support, and not to blame themselves or anyone else.

Listening Counts® Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (Grades 1-4)

Listening Counts® is a new educational game that teaches six basic listening skills to elementary school students. Players learn skills that will help them be better listeners at home, with friends, and in the classroom. Skills include remembering to make good eye contact, avoiding interrupting, and interpreting body language correctly.

No More Meltdowns Game. ChildsWork ChildsPlay, $33.95 (ages 6-12)

This interactive tool is designed to establish steady communication about mood changes between a child with Asperger's Syndrome and a parent, teacher, or therapist so that meltdowns can be avoided. The goal of the game is to recognize the connection between patterns of daily behavior and emotions. When the child and adult begin to understand the emotions that precede a meltdown, they can learn to stop the behavior before it starts. For one child and one adult.

The Obesity Game. Isabelle Streng & A.M. Stradmeijer, $81.95 (ages 6 to 16)

The Obesity Game is a therapeutic board game for overweight children and adolescents devised to identify and change behavioural eating and exercise patterns and to facilitate the understanding and disclosure of the complex feelings these children experience.

Based on an integrative psychotherapy model, it incorporates psycho-education and systemic, cognitive-behavioural and humanistic orientations. The game should be facilitated by a health or mental health professional (who may participate as a co-player) and is intended to be used with groups, although it may also be used with individuals. It can be tailored to the pace of the treatment process. The recommended age range for participants is 6 to 16 years, but the game can be adapted for working with older adolescents or adults.

Out of Your Mind Game™. Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (Gr. 1 to Adult)

Players will enhance their communication, listening, and decision making skills. The game helps players to improve their ability to understand others and experience empathy. Activities are designed to make sure that all this takes place in an atmosphere that is emotionally safe and supportive.

This non-competitive game has two sets of winners: the counselor or therapist wins by drawing important information out of the players’ minds, and the players win by learning important social skills.

Play-2-Learn Dominoes™ - Feelings Fun. Franklin Learning Systems, $24.95 (2-5 players; Grades 1-5)

In this new game, players have fun playing dominoes while learning how to express positive and negative feelings appropriately, recognize feelings, and care about the feelings of others.

Play-2-Learn Dominoes™ - Bully Wise. Franklin Learning Systems, $24.95 (2-5 players; Grades 1-5)

Players learn how all kids can work to reduce bullying and violence. Grades 1—5

Play-2-Learn Dominoes™ - Anger Control. Franklin Learning Systems, $24.95 (2-5 players; Grades 1-5)

Players have fun playing dominoes while learning to manage their anger and problem-solve in a thoughtful, assertive, and respectful way.

Play-2-Learn Dominoes™ - Friendship. Franklin Learning Systems, $24.95 (2-5 players; Grades 1-5)

In this new game, players have fun playing dominoes while learning how to make new friends, be a good friend, and resolve conflicts in a win-win way.

Play-2-Learn Dominoes™ - CyberSmart. Franklin Leaning Systems, $24.95 (2-5 players; Grades 3-7)

Play-2-Learn Dominoes —CyberSmart is an educational domino game designed to teach young people how to navigate the dangerous waters of the Internet, including wireless devices such as cell phones, PDA's, and MP3 players. Major topics covered include Internet predators, Internet bullying, scams, viruses, and the practice of pro-social Internet behavior. 

Play-2-Learn Dominoes™ - Character Strength. Franklin Learning Systems, $24.95 (2-5 players; Grades 2-8)

Based on the dynamic field of positive psychology, Play-2-Learn Dominoes — Character Strength is based on the concepts of the new field of positive psychology. Designed to build strong character in kids, the strengths emphasized in this game are kindness, self control, forgiveness, modesty, leadership, and social intelligence. 

Play-2-Learn Dominoes™ - Conflict Cruncher. Franklin Learning Systems, $24.95 (2-5 players; Grades 1-5)

CONFLICT CRUNCHER is a game designed to give kids the knowledge and skills they need to resolve conflict in a non-violent, win-win way. 

Remote Control Anger Control. Franklin Leaning Systems, $24.95 Grades 2–5 & 6–9

The Remote Control Anger Control™ game is a set of four card games that focuses on three essential skills for controlling anger:

• PAUSE and identify additional feelings
• REWIND and learn from past mistakes
• FAST FORWARD and think ahead about potential consequences

The game uses these remote control symbols to facilitate learning the skills. There are both competitive and cooperative versions for grades 1–5 and for grades 6–9. 

Remote Control Impulse Control. Franklin Leaning Systems, $24.95 Grades 2–5 & 6–9

Safety Island® Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (Grades 1-5)

Safety Island™ is a unique educational board game specifically designed to teach personal safety to children. Topics covered in the game include:

Water safety; Car safety; Bicycle safety; Strangers; Physical and sexual abuse; Storms; Fire safety; Pedestrian safety; Safety in the home; Drugs (including tobacco); Internet; Sports; Guns

This game takes children through the five stages of grief, helping therapists facilitate a child's disclosure of his/her perceptions and understanding of a loved one's death. Includes the teaching aid, Cycle of Life poster.

Smart and Angry® Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (Grades 2-5)

Smart and Angry® is an educational board game designed to teach young children specific skills that will help them to react in a thoughtful, assertive, and respectful ways in anger-provoking situations.

Social Smarts: a Play-2-Learn Matching Game. Franklin Learning Systems, $30.50 Grades 2-6

This matching game helps players improve their social and communication skills. As they respond to examples of positive and negative thoughts, kids learn to solve problems and make decisions.

Splitsville. Franklin Leaning Systems, $34.50 Grades 1-6

Children are faced with many challenges when parents separate/divorce.  Splitsville introduces children to the skills they will need to successfully navigate a parental separation. 

Stop Being So Mean! Board Game. ChildsWork ChildsPlay, $60.95 (ages  5-10)

In this game of cooperation, children learn to recognize when they are being mean to others and how to stop it. They also learn how to respond when others are mean to them. The players work together as a team to gather more tokens than the Mean Dragon collects. No one knows whether "meanness" or "kindness" will win out until the game ends and the tokens are counted.

Talking, Feeling and Doing Game:  an instrument for engaging the resistant child in meaningful psychotherapeutic endeavors. 1-5 players, $60.95 (ages 5-16)

Also: New additions to The Talking, Feeling & Doing Game — five new card games which can be played by themselves or with the original board game. Each set contains 99 cards and follows the format of the original game, focusing on specific problems or concerns of children. Ages 6-12. (Note: unlike the original Talking, Feeling, Doing Game, these cards are not restricted for use by mental health professionals and may be used by any caring and concerned adult). Talking, Feeling, Doing: Anger Card Game; Divorce Card Game; Good Behavior Card Game; Shyness Card Game; Teasing Card Game $26.95 each

Team Up: the Team Building Game You Play with a Group. Alanna Jones, $36.95

True Friends Game™. Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (Gr. 3 – 6)

Players learn how to be a true friend, to resist negative peer pressure from friends and other classmates, and to strive to be themselves instead of trying to fit the unrealistic cookie cutter mold of the “popular” girl or guy. As players strategize their routes to True Friends Island, they navigate through dangerous waters that surround a series of islands representing the challenges that they face (Popularity and Pressure Island, Friendship Ups and Downs Island, etc.).

What Should I Do Now? A Game That Teaches Social Decision Making. Lawrence Shapiro, $26.95 (ages 8-18)

This game is designed to help children and youth understand the different reactions we can have in a variety of situations, and how our responses affect not just us, but those around us.

Winning at Loss™ Franklin Learning Systems, $49.95 (Grades K-8)

Winning at Loss™ is a therapeutic and educational board game designed to help guide children through their grief. The game contains mostly open-ended questions that encourage children to open up and share their feelings and beliefs. In the game players navigate up and down five mountains that represent the stages of grief. Alternately, if your program does not utilize stages, the card decks and mountains become simply categories of questions.

You Can Control Your Anger: an Emotional Intelligence GameBook. Lawrence Shapiro & Greg Elkins, $24.50, ages 5-12

Games are a great way to help children learn anger control, but most games take time to set up and are difficult to transport. This spiral-bound game book comes with an attached spinner, and contains over 300 questions to teach children anger control. The game can be played in just 10 minutes and is suitable for individual or group counseling as well as home or classroom use.

You Can Control Your Worries Gamebook. Susan Pelton, $22.95

The You & Me Social Skills Board Game.  ChildsWork ChildsPlay, $61.95 (ages 4-12)

This popular board game teaches children important day-to-day social skills. For 2-4 players.