Students explore appropriate ways to communicate feelings.  In this character development lesson, students listen to Hands are not for Hitting and several other books about expressing emotions appropriately.  Students observe...

In this psychology worksheet, students complete 5 short answer questions about how the neurons and hormones work together together with the brain.

Students investigate the nervous system and how physical distractions influence mental performance. They work in pairs as a researcher and subject and memorize a series of words with no distractions. After repeating the list of words,...

A learning module that begins with "Fear Prompts Teens to Act Impulsively" by Laura Sanders, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...

Self-regulation skills develop gradually, and there are ways to help your child improve. This article discusses working on self-awareness, impulse control, and goal-setting to help your child learn to self-regulate.

In order for a child to be successful some degree of self control is necessary. This site looks at how children can develop self control and how an adult should react if a child is demonstrates a lack of control.

Mayo Clinic staff provides a definition, symptoms, causes, risk factors, tests and diagnosis, complications, treatment and drugs for kleptomania, an impulse control disorder.

Read the passage "The Speed of a Neural Impulse" and completed the related five-question quiz.

An irresistible urge to pull out hair, trichotillomania is a mental disorder. This article provides information on the symptoms, diagnosis and tests, treatment and care, and management of this disorder.

Information on compulsive skin picking, the causes, effects, and symptoms as well as information on skin picking in children.

ADD is defined and differentiated from ADHD. Includes tips on establishing a productive learning environment as well as giving instructions and assignments to students with Attention Deficit Disorder.

Through the exercises presented at this website, students with "Learn that other kids experience the same kids of emotions as they do," "That it's important to understand what we're feeling," and "That we can often benefit by discussing...