Colourful Compliments Therapeutic Card Set

Giving children genuine, targeted praise can promote the development of children’s mental health, positive self-image and nurture their relationships with others.

The statements on these cards can be the targeted praise in itself but equally, they are good conversation starters for people who want to have more deeper discussions with children about what they are pleased about.  Of course, praise can be given verbally, without cards.  The reason why the cards can be helpful is because the act of giving can provoke a positive response from the receiver – that they were special enough to single out. Also, in cases where relationships are tricky or the child is experiencing some level of difficulties interfering with their willingness or ability to listen, often a visual token of what a person is feeling can reinforce any verbal messages that are being given.  

The Colourful Compliments and the Stripey Sentiments Therapeutic Card Sets are not just for use for adults with children, however.  It is an important part of empathy development to not just receive warmth and praise but to learn how to give it to others too. Therefore, children could learn to give targeted praise to their siblings, peers and adults as well as receiving card messages themselves.  Targeted praise can also be effective during family work, where relationships can often get stuck in problem talk (focusing only on those things that family members are doing wrong) where we would want them to spend time reflecting on the things that are going right.

Please note:

Both the Colourful Compliments and the Stripey Sentiments Card Sets contain the same written information, just with different visuals.

This PDF is 11 pages in total.

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