Reframe It!™ game reduces anxiety and boosts social emotional mental health!
Reframing is a social-emotional mental health tool or strategy that helps to understand the function of human behavior. The American Psychology Association defines reframing as “a process of reconceptualizing a problem by seeing it from a different perspective.” This, then, creates possibilities for parents and others to solve child problem behaviors. Reframing shows how to foresee behavior and bypass it while building empathy and reducing anxiety.
As a parent, I loved learning about reframing. It showed me ways to try to get to the source of my child’s behavior problems. I was able to predict what might happen and diffuse their triggers. It also helped me improve relationships with family members and friends. Reframing showed me how by to see behaviors from another’s perspective. I enjoyed learning and teaching reframing so much that I developed “Reframe It!™,”* a game that teaches reframing. It shows a way to see why children or adults behave the way they do. The games also helps to build compassion for others and ourselves.
Reframe It!™ is a fun game!
“Reframe It!™” is a game for parents and others who are parenting to help them understand child behavior and behavior problems. The game can also help parents understand their own behavior, building self-compassion. With reframing, we gain an understanding of “the function of behavior,” or why people – children and adults – do what they do.
Reframe It!™ offers players:
- A chance to think about ways to modify their reactions to challenging or problem behaviors
- Ways to predict difficult behaviors and then
- Make changes to the environment or situation to bypass potential problems.
- For example:
A parent learns that sibling conflicts often arise from children seeking attention or they are bored or jealous. The parent sees the connection and plans ahead to give each child positive attention regularly. Or they change the environment by helping the child engage in a personally stimulating activity.
Reframe It!™ objectives include helping parents:
- Learn about reframing.
- Learn how to reframe behaviors to understand the function of behavior.
- Begin a practice of reframing to help plan for and modify behavior/reactions and the environment.
- Build empathy.
- Build an understanding of personal behavior and “why we do what we do.”
- Enter into discussions about behavior, stress, family roles, tasks, conflict or anger management, etc.
- Increase comfort in communicating with each other.
- Improve parent-child communication.
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Click here to purchase Reframe It!, a downloadable pdf for $12.00
* Reframe It!™ is a trademark of aws Studios and was developed using the child and parent behavior reframes in Intervening with troubled families: Functional family therapy and Parenting Wisely. D.A. Gordon, author. 2003.