Teaching Children Empathy, The Social Emotion

orkbook with your K-6 grade students to help them learn how to empathize and build healthy relationships. This practical workbook is designed to provide school psychologists, counselors, and teachers with activities to help students think about and practice strategies to become more empathetic. It uses both cognitive behavioral techniques and behavioral strategies, and includes lots of instructional activities and reproducible worksheets. Through games, role-plays and worksheets, your students will become thoughtfully engaged in building empathy skills! Building these skills in your school can help prevent bullying and other negative social behaviors, such as excluding peers. Topics included in the workbook are: defining empathy, understanding your feelings, learning to read another persons feelings, listening, being supportive, resolving conflicts, and more. This workbook is written by Dr. Tonia Caselman, an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma. Her research focus is in childrenÂ’s social/emotional development and school social work. She is passionate about making evidence-based and evidence-informed practices applicable to clinicians in the field.