Activities have the power to engage mental health clients in groups where they learn knowledge and skills to cope with the challenges they face. Use these activities to make your groups fun.

Worry group activity: Teach your students to practice controlled breathing and then complete an art activity to help your students visualize the breathing pattern. Great for small group counseling or individual counseling to teach calming strategies!

If you’re looking for some ideas for group therapy activities, scribble swap drawings can be fun and stimulate good reflection and discussion from the art process. Materials:PaperPencilsOther drawing media – colored pens, markers, crayons, colored pencils, pastels, etcPaint (maybe – I find that paint tends to lead to longer projects, so be aware of this …

Progressive muscle relaxation teaches participants to notice tension in their bodies by tensing and releasing muscles in a particular order. This is a progressive muscle relaxation script example.

It is often difficult to access helpful, more rational thoughts when we are feeling upset. Coping cards allow us to prepare for this by writing down helpful coping statements ahead of time, so that we can read through these statements when we feel upset and would otherwise find it difficult