Relájate: Bilingual Stress Management Group Counseling Guide with Spanish/English Activities - Paperback

by Stephanie M. Lerner MS (Author)

This guide will include 8 sessions of activities and info to help your students/clients manage their stress. Through relaxation exercises and knowledge building, this guide will teach group members to reduce their anxiety. This guide was especially created with bilingual/ESL populations in mind-it is the only one of its kind that has Spanish translations of the student materials. In addition, this stress management guide is also an excellent tool for counselors working with English-speaking populations as the guide itself is in English and English student materials accompany the Spanish student materials. With this publication, you will receive: a sessions guide with 8 weekly one hour sessions (ENGLISH), a recommendations guide for running a stress management counseling group (ENGLISH), a parent permission letter (ENGLISH/SPANISH), data templates for analyzing student progress (ENGLISH), templates for session notes (ENGLISH), group rules (ENGLISH/SPANISH), weekly group evaluations (ENGLISH/SPANISH), stress and anxiety reduction strategies (ENGLISH/SPANISH), informational passages (ENGLISH/SPANISH), additional activities to lengthen your sessions (ENGLISH/SPANISH), and more This guide is appropriate for students aged 8-18. The guide is 77 pages long.

Author Biography

Stephanie Lerner is a Johns Hopkins University-trained school counselor. She holds a BS in elementary education and an MS in counseling. With over 15 years in both public and private education, she has Texas certifications in school counseling, and bilingual/Spanish education. After traveling the world and working in such far off places as Mozambique and Bolivia, Stephanie came home to the USA to be a bilingual counselor in a high-need public school system. When she's not writing or counseling, she enjoys ranch life with her husband and their menagerie of pets- all bilingual, of course!