KidsWorld Inside and Out Board Game

KidsWorld is based on the Internal Family Systems Model. Ideal for youngsters with anxiety, depression, ADHD, anger issues, oppositional disorders,...
Item Product Price QTY
31460 KidsWorld Board Game $81.00
31460F Therapist's Guide to KidsWorld Inside and Out $41.00
31460G KidsWorld Therapist's Guide and Board Game Combo $110.00
31460B Transforming Troubled Children, Teens and Their Families $45.00
31460C KidsWorld Game & Transforming Troubled Children Book Combo $150.00
31460D KidsWorld Game,Therapist's Gde & Transform Troub Chld COMBO $180.00

KidsWorld is based on the Internal Family Systems Model. Ideal for youngsters with anxiety, depression, ADHD, anger issues, oppositional disorders, physical disabilities, learning issues and behavior problems.

KidsWorld: Inside & Out Board Game

Based on the Internal Family Systems Model, the fastest growing therapy model in the field of mental health today.

Arthur G. Mones, Ph.D.

  • Use: Therapeutic board game for children and adolescents
  • Age Range: 5-14

KidsWorld: Inside & Out is a therapeutic board game that guides children to access their own resources for dealing with challenging issues, thoughts, and feelings that arise within their family, with friends, and at school.  It is ideal for individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, ADHD, anger issues, oppositional defiance, physical disabilities, learning issues, and behavior problems. Unique among therapeutic techniques, this game is experiential-- teaching calming exercises as well as mindfulness-based strategies that are effective throughout the age range.  It is a game that fosters Acceptance for all Parts of the individual and views childhood struggles in a nonpathologizing and survival-based manner.

The model and game build on the the strengths of kids to bring about self-energy for emotional healing while having fun!

 

Related Materials:  Dr. Mones has published two other books that pair well with the KidsWorld: Inside & Out Board Game

A Therapist’s Guide to KidsWorld Inside and Out Psychotherapeutic Board Game

This Guide book (31460F) provides valuable direction in therapy sessions about how to use the KidsWorld Board Game therapeutically. It describes the framework of the Internal Family Systems Model and how the therapist and client can work within this modality. Detailed in this book is how using the game in sessions provides therapeutic benefits; how emotional growth occurs; how to use the game to enhance the therapeutic relationship and help kids process their internal states, and how to strengthen family relationships. Each section of this Guide includes samples of KidsWorld cards, relevant to topics under discussion. Case examples and therapeutic dialogues are presented as a guide to create a treatment plan, using KidsWorld to help kids achieve therapeutic goals.

KidsWorld Therapist’s Guide Chapters Include:

  1. The Essence of Emotional Healing
  2. Glossary of Terms
  3. The Problem and Potential of Therapeutic Communication with Children
  4. Symptoms as Adaptational Strategies for Emotional Survival
  5. Working with the Family
  6. Child Therapist’s Lament:  “Do I know what I’m doing?”

A Treatment Planner is also included.

Using the Therapist's Guide to KidsWorld with the Board Game can assist the clinician in their work with the child and family. 

 

Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families: An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing

In Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families: An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing (31460B), Dr. Mones presents the first comprehensive application of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy model for work with youngsters and their families. This model centers diagnosis and treatment around the concept of the Functional Hypothesis, which views symptoms as adaptive and survival­based when viewed in multiple contexts. The book provides a map to help clinicians understand a child’s problems amidst the reactivity of parents and siblings, and to formulate effective treatment strategies that flow directly from this understanding. This is a nonpathologizing systems and contextual approach that brings forward the natural healing capacity within clients. Dr. Mones also shows how a therapist can open the emotional system of a family so that parents can let go of their agendas with their children and interact in a loving, healthy, self-led way.

This integrative MetaModel combines wisdom from Psychodynamic, Structural, Bowenian, Strategic, Sensorimotor, and Solution-Focused models interwoven with IFS Therapy. A glossary of terms is provided to help readers with concepts unique to IFS. Unique to this approach is the emphasis on shifting back and forth between intrapsychic and relational levels of experience. Therapy vignettes are explored to help therapists address issues such as trauma, anxiety, depression, somatization, oppositional and self-destructive behavior in children, along with undercurrents of attachment injury. Two detailed cases are followed over a full course of treatment. A section on Frequently Asked Questions explores work with families of separation and divorce, resistance, the trajectory of treatment, dealing with anger, linking to twelve-step programs, and much more. This is an ideal book for any therapist in quest of understanding the essence of healing and seeking therapeutic strategies applied within a compassionate framework.

Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families: An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing pairs nicely with the KidsWorld Board Game.

 

KidsWorld Board Game and Related Materials Purchasing Options

31460 - KidsWorld: Inside & Out Board Game - complete board game

31460F - Therapist's Guide to KidsWorld Inside and Out Psychotherapeutic Board Game guide book only

31460B - Transforming Troubled Children, Teens and Their Families - book only

Combination Options

31460G - KidsWorld Board Game and Therapist's Guide Book Combo: Includes the KidsWorld: Inside & Out Board Game (31460) and Therapist's Guide to KidsWorld Inside and Out Psychotherapeutic Board Game book (31460F)

31460C - KidsWorld Board Game and Transforming Troubled Youth Book Combo: Includes KidsWorld: Inside & Out Board Game (31460) and Transforming Troubled Children, Teens and Their Families book (31460B)

31460D - KidsWorld Board Game, Therapist's Guide, and Transforming Troubled Youth Book Combo: Includes KidsWorld: Inside & Out Board Game (31460), Therapist's Guide to KidsWorld Inside and Out Psychotherapeutic Board Game book (31460F), and Transforming Troubled Children, Teens and Their Families book (31460B)

 

Check out Arthur Mones's interview about how his board game and book relate to the new Pixar movie Inside Out!

http://www.routledgementalhealth.com/articles/internal_family_systems_in_pixars_inside_out_interview_with_arthur_mones/

 

KidsWorld Board Game Demonstration

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    <li><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva; font-size:medium"><a href="http://www.stoeltingco.com/Psychological/media/KidsWorld_Outlook_magazine.pdf"><u>KidsWorld Inside and Out featured in Outlook Magazine!</u></a></span></li>
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