Fifty Steps Closer
Special Revised Edition
Table of Contents
1. Goals and Objectives: Counseling Introduction
2. A Team: Building Families and Teams
3. The Juggler: Learning Multi-Tasking Skills
4. Recycling Myself: Changing Non-Productive Behaviors
5. Bop! Pull! Twist!: Learning to Follow Directions
6. Stressful Events: Recognizing and Dealing with Symptoms of Stress
7. Overcoming Obstacles: Achieving Goals through Adversity
8. Twister: Avoiding “Uncomfortable” Character Situations
9. The Private Investigator: The Search & Rescue of Positive Attributes
10. Star Search: Creating Positive Patterns
11. Rock and Sand: Adjusting Expectations
12. Tower of Power: Building Stronger Families
13. The Power of Perception: Matching Moods & Facial Clues
14. Serving Thanks: Recognizing and Expressing Gratitude
15. Bugs: An Exercise in Anger Management & More
16. Giving Gifts: Identifying Heartfelt Gifts
17. X’s and O’s: Taking, Accepting, and Learning Responsibility
18. Brave, Foolish, Cool, or Goofy?: Evaluating Behaviors
19. Bull’s-Eye: Learning & Accepting to do your Best
20. The Challenge: Re-thinking Impulsivity
21. Batteries Included: Discovering the Energy Within
22. Top Spin: Putting Optimism into Action
23. Working Together: Establishing and Achieving Common Goals
24. MYOB: Report, Inform and Learning when to…
25. The Big Experiment: The Effect of Colors and Music on Emotions
26. The Game: Making Your Way through Ambiguity
27. Going Through Yuck: Perseverance in finding Positives
28. Rock and Sock Robots: Victory through Peaceful Behaviors
29. Sailing: For the Sake of the Crew
30. The Secret Recipe: Creating Desired Outcomes
31. Inside Out: Seeing Beyond & Beneath Exteriors
32. Jumping to Conclusions: Focus on Feelings
33. Building Friendship: Understanding the Value of Trust
34. Balloons: Letting go of Worry
35. Forgiveness: Figuring out Forgiving
36. Recognizing Friends: Sorting out Friendships
37. The Great Masquerade: Being Prepared for Betrayal and Deception
38. The Bridge: Setting Goals and Securing Supports
39. I’ve Got a Secret: Understanding the Secret behind Secrets
40. Right? Wrong? Depends? Applying Principles to Situations
41. Super Hero: Promise Keepers & Responsibility Takers
42. Sequence Makes Sense: Telling the Entire Story
43. Round and Round We Go: Saving the Group
44. Popsicle Stick: Relationship Maintenance and Repair
45. Tough Change: Transforming Difficult Memories
46. The Puzzle: Protecting the Void of Loss
47. Risky Business: Consequences of Taking Chances
48. Priorities: Trial by Fire on the Hot Seat
49. Sticky Hands: Sanitizing Temptations
50. In Our Absence: Let your Conscious be your Guide
Addendum: Campus Connection