Impulse Control Strategies Workshop
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ScribdTranslationsIndividual workshop for impulse management and control
General objective
Achieve impulse control when making decisions and
confronting daily problems, whether within their
family environment, teachers, classmates, and friends.
Specific objectives
That the participating person manages to evaluate the loss of control of
impulses and the resources one has to face them.
Recognize the different ways and moments when it can be
apply self-control.
Relate and achieve the implementation of control strategies
impulses.
Session 1: Recognizing my emotions
Cross-cutting theme and summary of the content:
That the participant becomes aware that they can control their impulses.
in different areas of their daily lives, regardless of the type of
emotion that arises (pleasant or unpleasant) and encourage it to happen
use of these in a future situation.
Objetivos de la sesión:
Confirm that individuals can control impulses.
Recognizing feelings and emotions.
Understanding the causes and consequences of emotions.
Identify the different emotions of oneself and others.
Duration: Approximately 1 hr.
Activities to be developed:
Presentation and explanation of the workshop rules.
Activity: How do I lose control?
1) Draw on a sheet, in which two examples must be drawn of
when control has been lost, one must capture what was happening,
place and moment in which it happened, the people who were present
involved, how the situation ends and the consequences that
this brought. Then the child is asked to tell what they were thinking and
it is done with your body at the moment of expressing your loss of
control.
After this, the child is asked to recount a moment in the
who has not lost control of their impulses and who tells that
it's what he did to make it happen this way and not be complicated.
Emphasize to the child that they have techniques to manage their feelings.
emotions, whether they are negative or positive and
you can apply them in a future situation.
Materials: Paper and pencil.
Evaluation and feedback of the session
Talking about the emotions that arise after remembering
situations where control has been lost.
Session 2: Building strategies for self-control
Cross-cutting theme and summary of the content:
Let the child build everyday situations by himself/herself.
where one faces the loss of impulse control
and develop strategies for the resolution of these conflicts,
without having to lose impulse control. Self-control
it is defined as the individual capacity to not lose control in
situations of discomfort, misunderstanding, or tension.
Objectives of the session
Conocer situaciones en que el niño/a pierde el autocontrol.
That the child develops strategies by themselves, that it
serve to resolve conflicts involving loss
of impulse control.
That they know different strategies that serve to achieve the
self-control in situations of discomfort, misunderstanding or
tension.
Duration: approximately 1 hour
Actividades:
Watch videos of situations where control has been lost.
impulses.
Attach short videos or, failing that, images of situations that are
There is a loss of impulse control.
Expression of emotions without having to harm others or oneself.
Keep in mind that we can make mistakes in moments when we
that one is learning to know oneself. The learning of
self-control is gradually, first it is necessary to know the emotions
own and the necessary strategies to be able to control impulses.
Emotions are not only negative, there are also positive ones.
and they are expressed through our actions, for example, jumping, laughing, etc.
It is important to anticipate situations in order to foresee what
we can do for impulse management.
Managing frustration, it is possible to express it with crying or a tantrum,
but does not harm himself/herself or others.
Evaluación y retroalimentación de la sesión:
Appreciation of the situation that was recalled, consequences after the loss
impulse control techniques that can be helpful to
moment to face a similar situation again, for the achievement of
self-control.
Session 3: Let's put self-control into practice
Cross-cutting theme and summary of the content:
There are several techniques to achieve self-control in adolescents.
Four techniques will be presented for the realization of this session.
management of loss of impulse control.
1)Deep breathing technique: one should breathe in deeply
while counting mentally up to four, then hold the
breathe in while counting to four, release the air
counting mentally up to eight. This process should be repeated 2
times.
2) Self-verbalizations: They are brief phrases or words that
they begin to say mentally with the intention of stopping
thoughts of tension and the power to grant the possibility of
control the reactions.
a) Self-soothing verbalizations: calm down, don't get involved
In problems, relax, it's not worth it, I'm not going to clarify it now.
I better calm down and then we talk about it, breathe and go, tell.
Up to ten, it's logical to be nervous, breathe.
b) Self-verbalizations of control: I am able to
I will control myself, I will not let this dominate me, I can handle it.
this situation, go in order, say one thing at a time, keep the
calm.
3) Positive thinking technique: Whenever there is a
negative thinking and being aware of it; one must
replace with a positive thought.
Negative Positive
I am a disaster If I can overcome this situation
I can't stand it If I put in effort, I will succeed.
I am overwhelmed Worrying doesn't make things easier.
Everything is going to go wrong. This is not going to be so terrible.
I can't control this situation Surely he/she would achieve it
They do this to attack me Being angry does not help me
4) Technique of stable body expression: it consists of maintaining a
stable body posture while engaging in a discussion with
another person, instead of expressing the signs in an altered way and
which can be misinterpreted.
Session objectives
That the child learns different techniques for self-control.
Activity
Choose one or two techniques to recreate situations where it is possible
apply, think and reflect on the way of acting in response to control
of impulses.
Situations when...
I lose control with my parents, brother/sister.
...I lose control with my teachers
...I lose control with my colleagues.
Evaluation and feedback at the end of the workshop
Comment on the difficulties that arose at the time of carrying out
the activity.
Utility of the techniques presented to achieve self-control.
Things that would change or add to the techniques that could be
used in the future.