ALEX - Alabama Learning Exchange

Counseling & Guidance

K - 12

Understanding Death and Grief
http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/parent/grief1.cfm
Tips and resources for helping children and teens cope with grief.

Managing Anger
http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/educators/lessons/schoolviol3/index.html
A great lesson plan for communication skills and anger. It contains three short video clips involving teenagers talking about relationships, peer mediation and how to respond when angry. It offers multiple teaching methods to reach all learning styles. (Amy Nix)

Relationship Abuse
http://stoprelationshipabuse.org/
This website will provide education and training so communities and institutions will respond effectively to women who are experiencing abuse.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
http://www.samhsa.gov/trauma/index.aspx
This site will provide information on substance abuse and mental health services.

A Primer on Peer Mediation
http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/educators/lessons/schoolviol1/index.html
This lesson plan teaches students how to resolve conflict by having a mediator. Free video clips are available online that demonstrate how the mediation session would play out. The full video can be purchased, but the clips seem to be sufficient for drawing students into a class discussion.

Being Better
http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/teachersguide.pdf
Teach students about personal improvement and determination. This lesson plan uses Benjamin Franklin as an example of someone who set goals in life and achieved them. Students will create a self-improvement plan, follow it for one week and write a reflection paper. Follow link and scroll down to lesson #5.

Stress Dolls
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=125
In this lesson, students will learn ways to improve mental health and maintain stress.