ACT Functional Assessment Flipchart: School-Age Edition (Ages 6-12)

Description

Bring ACT into your sessions in a way kids understand. This step-by-step visual flipchart guides you through an ACT-informed functional assessment with children ages 6–12. Kid-friendly pictures face the child, and a ready-to-read clinician page faces you. (Digital Download – You build the flipchart with a binder)

Instead of explaining ACT, you show it. Children see the ideas through simple pictures and stories, so they understand what you’re asking before you ask them to say yes to treatment.

✦ WHAT’S INSIDE ✦

• My Choice Map: the ACT Matrix made for kids, with four friendly quadrants: Run Away, Let’s Do It, The Yucky Stuff and The Important Stuff
• A question bank for every quadrant: 86 questions on values, thoughts and feelings, problem behavior and replacement behavior, all in language children understand
• “What’s Working?”: gentle creative hopelessness questions that help children notice what their Run Away choices cost them over time
• Paired-choice assessment: behavioral signs, verbal tells and “Is it more this… or more that?” questions to help you form a hypothesis about which ACT repertoire to target first
• Six illustrated scenes, each with a clinician script, introducing choice, avoidance, unhelpful thoughts, the present moment, willingness and committed action
• A child assent script, with a clinician note on caregiver consent
• Therapist guides: How to ACT with kids, Involving Caregivers & Teachers, Selecting ACT Exercises & Metaphors, and Integrating ACT into ABA Treatment
• Two printable worksheets: My Choice Map and What’s Working?

✦ HOW IT WORKS ✦
Print the pages and put them in a binder. Set it up as a tent so the child sees the picture while you follow the script. A “Three Paths Ahead” guide tells you where to go next based on how ready your client is.

✦ WHO IT’S FOR ✦
BCBAs, behavior analysts, school psychologists, school counselors and behavioral health clinicians working with verbal children ages 6–12.

✦ DETAILS ✦

• 37-page PDF, landscape (11 × 8.5 in), print-ready
• Instant digital download. No physical item will be shipped.
• For use by one clinician

Also available: Adult Edition (18+) and Teen Edition (13-18)!

Please note: This flipchart supports assessment and treatment planning. It is not a full ACT curriculum and does not diagnose. Use the results as hypotheses to test through direct observation, alongside your clinical judgment.