Evidence-Based Insights and Activities for Teaching Kids Impulse Control

By: Tonia Caselman, Ph.D.

Includes a link to download digital copies of the reproducibles in this book.

Grades 3-8. This book of evidence-based practices provides more insights, skill-building activities, and reproducible worksheets you can use to help young people improve their impulse control. Components of this book can be picked out and uniquely combined to meet the needs of individual or small groups of students. Or they can be used to present a series of classroom lessons to teach aspects of impulse control to all students.

This resource is designed to help children and youth to:

• Increase motivation to change
• Regulate negative affect
• Make good choices
• Use self-talk
• Build self-confidence
• Increase deliberation before acting
• Analyze contextual cues for action
• Find less risky but exciting activities
• Develop skill of mindfulness