The Talking Feeling Doing Game

This is the game that transformed the field of psychotherapy. First published in 1973 by Dr. Richard Gardner, it has become the "must-have" tool in working with children ages 5 to 14. It is considered the most well used and well-loved play therapy tool of all time. 

This therapy game is played like a standard board game. The child and therapist place their playing pieces on Start, then take turns throwing the dice and moving their pawn along a path of squares. Depending upon the color of the square on which the piece lands, the player selects a talking card, feeling card, or doing card. The questions and directions in each set of cards include items that are not anxiety-provoking - How old are you? - to items that are moderately anxiety-provoking - Everyone in the class was laughing at a boy. What had happened? If the child responds, they receive a token reward chip. The winner is the player who has accumulated the most chips after the players have reached the Finish