Miriam Rodrigues

Miriam Rodrigues
Psychologist graduated from the University
Mackenzie Presbyterian, specialist in
clinical psychology and postgraduate in medicine
behavioral by Unifesp. Has
14 years of experience in customer service
clinical with children, adolescents, and adults.

Idealist of Emotional Education

Positive, a psychoeducational program that
integrates positive psychology, education
emotional, cognitive therapy and art education
as a means to instrumentalize countries,
educators and health professionals to
develop the skills in children
socio-emotional and skills for good
to be.

Problem Solving
Problems... everyone faces them constantly.
Problems are our sources of stress, and when we face one,
we know how to recognize it due to the emotional discomfort we feel, to
Nezu & Nezu (1995) a problem is the connection that describes the imbalance between
the demand and the availability of an adaptive response of the individual to
environment.
Problems can be "simple" or complicated; from a child's perspective,
decide whether to go to grandmother's house to see a dear aunt or go to a party
pajamas, to take postures to defend oneself from colleagues, to explain oneself from bad ones
understood, it can represent a big problem and require a large part of
your time, and often the child may prefer avoidance or to shy away,
that makes it impossible to learn the skill of problem solving.
When we talk about solution, we must think about the adaptive response to
to change the nature of the problematic situation, given that effective solutions
they are those that not only modify the nature of the problematic situation
minimize the negative responses and enhance the positive consequences.
These skills can be learned, and once the individual manages to
to seize them becomes skilled at finding effective solutions in order to
we will diminish disturbing emotions.

Objective
This e-book aims to provide some playful guidelines for the
learning the skill of problem solving, to assist the
We will broaden the children's repertoires.

All the posters created for this ebook are available in pdf.
so that the professional can print them and leave them in a visible place
all.
Step 1 - Problem Identification
It is important to formulate, elucidate, and understand the problematic situation of
specific mode.

Step 2 - Possible solutions

Raising alternatives for solutions. What can we do? The possibilities.
solutions must be safe, healthy, respectful.

Step 3 - Choose
Among the alternatives we have raised and with the information we have at the moment,
choose the best option. Comparing the available options.

Step 4 - Put into action

Apply the chosen alternative.

Step 5 - We verify the result

Evaluation of the effectiveness of the choice by observing the final result. If you find that the
the chosen alternative is ineffective, it is necessary to return to step 2 for a new choice.
These systematic steps of resolution teach us that, for every problem not
there is only one solution, there are several options, and the best solution is the one
that serves us at the moment. When we understand that an individual
emotionally healthy is not the one who has a life free of problems but rather
those who become skilled at solving them, we can understand the importance
this training so that we can reduce our anguish, anxiety, sources
de-stress.
Many times we shy away from solving problems because we worry about having
the best solution, and the best solution is the one we put into practice.
Our goal is to enlighten our children about the importance of this skill.
in this way we can avoid that problems become bigger due to
inexperience in problem solving.
Focusing on solutions makes us assertive.
We are assertive when we defend our rights without disrespecting the rights of others.
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 Activity Suggestions
An important point is to make a list of
problems and categorize them into different ones
degrees of complexity, then go
resolving conflicts by following a
increasing hierarchy of difficulty, going from
easiest for the hardest.

When we work with children and adolescents,

we want them to have the opportunity to learn
the steps for resolution in a practical way and for that
we created some problems for them to solve
following the steps described above.

Professionals can develop some activities that

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list of strategies that can be used for a while
specific and must always be practiced, it's as if
we were playing, "what could I do?"
This image refers to some possible simple solutions for everyday problems.
day, mainly of coexistence.

What can I do?

Ignore it for a while?

Say to her to stop. With a firm tone of voice and posture.
Do another activity, opting for administration instead of just focusing on the problem.
F o r s i m p l e d e c i s i o n p r o b l e m s , u s e r o c k , p a p e r, s c i s s o r s .
I could even kiss you.

Use some constructive phrases that describe what we should do and say.
lower ourselves, or mentally, for example 'I can' 'I just need to do it'
but just a little...
Apologize.
In the face of the error, besides apologizing, it is important to ask yourself - 'How can I make amends?'
my mistake? "In order for the apology to move beyond words, it is important to make
some intentional act of reparation, as there was an action that caused harm,
So how can I fix my damage?

Fa l a r s o b r e i s s o.

Expressing your feelings, ideas, and intentions. Talking about emotions is

fundamentally well for our brain.

Ignore.
When they decided not to get involved in that situation, they will wait for me to calm down.
What is the size of my problem? And what is the size of my
reaction? The round choice.
This activity must be printed and distributed individually so that the children
they can fill them out, and thus learn to identify their problems and the
reaction tamandua.
An example: My friend stepped on my foot! What is the size of this problem? It is
large, very large? Medium?
What was my reaction: -Give me a break!
So my reaction was much greater than the problem itself.

In this way, we are working on the awareness of your emotions and your actions.

One point to highlight: Children solve children's problems.

However, there are some types of problems that fundamentally require assistance from a
trusted adult, and there are problems that do not belong to the child, but the child incorporates them
parasite.
What's wrong with me?
Will it be a problem that I can solve?
Do you need the help of an adult?
Things out of my control

This poster serves as a reminder, to alert us that it doesn't matter what

whatever happens to us, we have the power to decide what to do with what happens to us
it happened.

There are things that we don't control, as they are beyond our control such as
for example: the actions of others, the words of others, the efforts of
others, the behaviors, the ideas, feelings, and mistakes of others, that is
beyond our reach, I have no control.

What can I have control over?

Of my words, my actions, my ideas, my efforts, of the

my mistakes and my behavior. This is an attempt to internalize that
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5 steps to manage intense emotions:

One can only think after calming down. That little hand
it aims to remember what the basic rules are
for managing intense emotions.

Being able to manage intense emotions is one of

problem-solving components.
Learned optimism

The development of problem-solving skills

problems can be a step towards incorporation of
learned optimism, one of the themes addressed in
Positive Psychology. Problems are events that make
part of human nature, wanting to ignore them is to stop
accept life in its entirety and think about problems
how something bad can lead to anxious states and
stressful.

Everyone goes through adversities in life,

regardless of who they are, however the way that
we interpret these adversities, they make all the
difference in my mood. See what they are.
explanations that facilitate learned optimism.

Explanatory style
optimistic about
the misfortune.

they will not last forever, it will have

Passengers an end.

They are specific. affect only one sector of mine

life.

External take into consideration the context.

They are cognitive strategies to incorporate optimism.

An optimistic posture leads to hope, a positive emotion that
make me come up with a creative change to change a
situation that I do not like.
Our society is experiencing constant changes, which seems to make us
lose some fundamental skills for interpersonal relationships.

Children perceive some social rules that are often

contradictory, whether at school or in the family, they coexist with different
values and face many problems, even with the lack of perception
Living together nowadays is becoming increasingly difficult,
mainly because children are not having time to play
spontaneously, as all of its schedules are filled with
extracurricular activities and games on tablets.

Playing is essential for learning social skills,

inclusive problem solving.

And why do we want them to be

happy.

Many adults only worry about

exempt children from any type of
problem believing that they are doing so
everything for them to be happy. By
on the contrary, we need to nurture your skills
of problem-solving so that it could be
how they become aware of their
skills.

Solving problems is not something that is innate.

soon. It is a set of skills
learned and developed over the years
when we engage in your process.
 Knowing how to handle emotions is a
it's an important lesson!

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