What are some good group activities for troubled teens that they can reflect on, but would be fun?
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group talk is a great way for people to get advice and let their feelings out and better understand life and other feelings.i would get all the girls together and start up a conversation or topic and it will lead to all kinds of conversations that can better help understand and good communitcation.
When I was a teenager, I went away to a church overnight camp (required for confirmation). They had a couple letters for each student from their parents, grandparents or siblings with words of encouragement and things they like best about them. Then each of us would have to write a letter back to them... I wasn't a troubled teen or anything like that, but I remember just sitting there crying, because the people who care about me took the time to say it in a letter. I still have all my letters from that event. We also all wrote short messages to each student at the camp... I have those too. I think when people see the good in you, and actually say it or write down, it is easier for you to see yourself more clearly. Or at least want to be a better person and have those good characteristics be your continuous personality, instead of a trait.
After you have developed group discussions with each one, so they can speak about an idea in a sequential way, then try to introduce the idea of reading a book or even a comic.
If the brain never reads there can't be any reflection about ideas and life. Use the best reading material they are interested in. If they wont read a book unless it is bad then they must start there. Forget movies as they are probably able to watch a movie and tell what it was about after wards. There has to be some kind of reward like candy or ice cream.
Have them keep journals? Like, if they write at least once a day for a week or two, they get a reward. You don't have to read them, but they can just flip through each entry to prove they've written.
Or write poetry and share it?
Try some books, maybe? Some good ones are:
"It happened to Nancy" - A girl who was raped and got AIDS because of it
"Don't read this, Mrs. Dumphrey" - A girl with a neglectful mother who leaves her. The teenage girl has to take care of her younger brother and keep the house, all by herself.
And the most amazing one is "The Burns Journal." A story about a teenage boy who wore a robe covered in gasoline to set himself on fire. The story is about his recovery and hospitalization, written in his point of view.
And a well known one is "A child called It" about a boy with an INCREDIBLY abusive mother. His mother did things to him that you can't even think of.
All the above are true stories and for the most part, written by the actual survivors.
hullo
for incarcerated criminals, few choices are in hand, occupational therapy, re-creational therapy, sport, psycho drama, rehabilitation therapy, moral therapy in the form of religious counseling.
any of the above mentioned might be of help.
Dr solo
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