4-Week Teen Emotional Regulation Program
A clinician-ready bundle that strings four weekly sessions out of the Emotional Regulation Activity Pack, the Teen Coping Skills Toolkit, and the Coping Skills library entries. Every week carries one clinical goal, a printable materials list, a session script timed for a 45–50 minute visit, and one to two activities drawn so the teen can rehearse the same skill between visits. Priced at one printable bundle so it lands under the $48 Group Pass monthly hire.
Built for
The clinician running either an ongoing group rotation that needs a fresh four-visit arc or an extended individual series whose teen has cleared safety screening and is ready for a graded emotional-regulation rehearsal.
- Cue.A single kit covers one visit; the four-week arc the clinician actually needs is a body-cue map that hands off into a trigger ladder that hands off into a coping-skills sort that hands off into a closing ritual — and the cards do not naturally chain between kits.
- Body.Rehearsal collapses the moment the week’s sheet drifts home without a script: the teen rehearses the wrong rung, the parent runs the wrong pocket of the sort, and the visit at week three opens on a routine instead of a carry-over.
- Skills.Four weekly sessions, each with one clinical goal, one printable materials list, one timed 45–50 minute clinician script, and 1–2 activities drawn so the teen rehearses the same skill between visits — four sheets in the backpack, not five kits on the shelf.
What’s inside
Four weeks, one visit at a time.
Every card below is one week — one clinical goal, the materials you print before the visit, the session script timed for a 45–50 minute slot, and the 1–2 activities the teen rehearses between visits. Drop weeks in separately or run the full four-week arc across a rotation.
Week 01
Mapping the body before the words land
Goal
Name the body-cue before the coping skill opens — the teen rehearses arousal vocabulary so the body has words before the spike arrives.
Materials
- Body-cue mapping sheet (half-letter, 110 lb stock)
- TIPP skills pick card (Temperature / Intense exercise / Paced breath / Progressive relax)
- One 60-second reset timer visible across the room
- Daily check-in half-sheet (one per week, six-up)
Script
- •Open (5 min) — body-cue break, then the teen names one cue they noticed this week and the clinician writes it under the teen’s hand.
- •Body map (15 min) — teen fills three rows on the body-cue sheet: where the cue lands, what it feels like, the first word they would say out loud.
- •TIPP pick (15 min) — clinician lays the TIPP card down; teen picks one of the four to rehearse today and writes the next-step cue on the check-in half-sheet.
- •Ride-out drill (10 min) — one rep of 60 seconds; clinician times it, teen rates the body on the way back, card stays on the desk for next week.
- •Close (5 min) — one sentence the teen can carry into the hallway; check-in half-sheet travels home in the backpack, not the parent’s bag.
Activities the teen rehearses this week
- Body-cue mapping sheet (from Emotional Regulation Activity Pack)
- TIPP skills pick card (from Emotional Regulation Activity Pack)
Week 02
Building the trigger ladder from last week’s incident
Goal
Rank the actual triggers so the coping skill opens at the right rung — rehearsal starts from the bottom of the ladder, not the top of last week’s spike.
Materials
- Trigger-ladder worksheet, 8 ranked rungs (half-letter)
- Ride-out cue drill card (60-second reset, three reps)
- TIPP skills pick card (carry-over from week 1)
- Daily check-in half-sheet, panel 2
Script
- •Open (5 min) — return to week 1’s check-in half-sheet; teen names one body-cue that came up since last visit and the rung where it would land.
- •Trigger ladder (20 min) — clinician and teen co-build 8 rungs from concrete antecedents (hallway, group chat, practice field), not abstract “stress”; the top rung is last week’s spike.
- •Ride-out cue drill (15 min) — three reps of 60 seconds, one per rung on the bottom half of the ladder; clinician tracks arousal, not time.
- •Pick the cue (10 min) — teen writes the next-step cue on the check-in half-sheet, next to the rung it lives at.
- •Close (5 min) — clinician names the bottom rung where rehearsal starts next visit; trigger-ladder card travels home so the parent sees the language, not the protocol.
Activities the teen rehearses this week
- Trigger-ladder worksheet (from Emotional Regulation Activity Pack)
- Ride-out cue drill card (from Emotional Regulation Activity Pack)
Week 03
Sorting the coping-skills deck
Goal
Let the teen pick which 5–8 skills live in their pocket this week — sorting shifts ownership from the clinician to the teen so the deck travels home.
Materials
- Coping-skills sort card (32 skills, four-pocket mat)
- Values sort deck (four life areas, eight cards each)
- TIPP skills pick card + body-cue break card (carry-over weeks 1–2)
- Daily check-in half-sheet, panel 3
Script
- •Open (5 min) — return to check-in half-sheet panel 2; teen reports which rung rehearsal actually started from, not the one they wish it had.
- •Coping-skills sort (20 min) — teen sorts the 32 cards across the four pockets: this week, next week, parked, never; clinician coaches for 5–8 in the “this week” pocket, not all four.
- •Values sort (15 min) — teen pulls the values sort deck, picks one card per life area; clinician pairs the picked values to skills already sorted into the “this week” pocket.
- •Pick the carry (10 min) — teen chooses 1–2 skills that will travel in the backpack all week, writes the names on the check-in panel 3.
- •Close (5 min) — clinician names which skills survive the next early-morning spike, not the next week’s session; the four-pocket mat travels home with the teen, not the parent.
Activities the teen rehearses this week
- Coping-skills sort card (from Teen Coping Skills Toolkit)
- Values sort deck (from Teen Coping Skills Toolkit)
Week 04
Three good things + strengths card take-home
Goal
Close the four-week arc with a single repeated ritual the teen can carry past the program — the strengths card build gives the arc an anchor so the work does not end at the buzzer.
Materials
- Three good things ritual sheet, two-week half-sheet
- Strengths card build (strength / accomplishment / person-in-corner)
- Self-compassion break card (carry-over from week 3)
- Daily check-in half-sheet, panel 4 + arc-close row
Script
- •Open (5 min) — clinician returns to the four-week arc: week 1 body-cue, week 2 trigger rung, week 3 pocket skills, week 4 ritual; teen names one carry-over from each.
- •Three good things ritual (15 min) — teen fills the first week on the half-sheet live, three rows; clinician models one self-cued row to keep the bar low.
- •Strengths card build (20 min) — teen fills the strengths card: one strength, one accomplishment from the four-week arc, the name of the person-in-corner on the back.
- •Self-compassion break (5 min) — clinician reads the three sentences on the self-compassion break card; teen picks the line that lands for them, writes it on the card back.
- •Close (5 min) — strengths card stays in the pocket; the teen names the single ritual the arc closes on, and the half-sheet travels home so the second week keeps counting without the clinician in the room.
Activities the teen rehearses this week
- Three good things ritual sheet (from Teen Coping Skills Toolkit)
- Strengths card build (from Teen Coping Skills Toolkit)
Tied to the catalog
Every weekly visit pulls straight from the catalog — not a new arc dressed up as a bundle. Week 1 and Week 2 draw from the Emotional Regulation Activity Pack; Week 3 and Week 4 draw from the Teen Coping Skills Toolkit. Clinicians running either pack on its own can stitch the same hand-off back into this four-week rotation without re-printing.
The four-arc slot fits an ongoing group rotation as cleanly as an extended individual series: each week hands one measurable carry-over to the next, and the closing ritual in Week 4 stabilizes the work without requiring a fifth visit to close the loop. Priced at one printable bundle so it lands under the $48 Group Pass monthly hire — clinicians running the Anger Regulation group kit, the Coping Skills group kit, or the Behavioral Activation group kit can fold this bundle in as the graded emotional-regulation arc those kits do not cover on their own.
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