Resources for mental health

The Bears

Innovative Resources is proud to announce the release of a brand new edition of this iconic card set that has already found a home in the tool kits of thousands of human service workers.

Our new Bear cards have even more charm, express a greater range of emotions and lookeven more human! Perfect for social workers, [...]

Cars R Us

Inspired by Choice Theory, Reality Therapy and incorporating strengths-based ideas, Cars R Us is a conversation-building tool ideal for exploring feelings, responses and articulating goals.
Perfect for anyone wanting to engage boys or men in important conversations. For those familiar with Glasser’s work this is a hands-on tool that includes all the [...]

Growing Well

Mental Health Professionals, Therapists, Psychologists and Social Workers: here is a mental health monitoring tool suitable for use with all ages.
Growing Well cards are built around key statements that research has shown are important indicators of mental health and balance. Accompanying each statement is a ’scale’ using simple illustrations of [...]

Koala Company

Need some really good company? Meet Australia’s favourite marsupial in every kind of mood.
A great bunch of 50 cartoon koala characters for talking about feelings. Each circle-shaped card brings us up close and personal with a very expressive koala face. Which koala are you today? The mad, glad or just plain [...]

Optimism Boosters

Attention Psychologists, Social Workers, Counsellors and Educators. Each of the 30 cards in this elegant little set creates a window into change, new possibilities and fresh ways of thinking. Key questions focus on goals, possibilities or strategies.
Published by Innovative Resources 2004. Author: Selina Byrne, Designer: Tim Lane 30 laminated, full-colour [...]

Reflexions

Here is a resource for educators, youth workers, mental health professionals, social workers, juvenile justice counsellors and anyone involved with young people.
Reflexions is a set of cards that use contemporary street and techno style photo collage and graphics to deepen conversations on the issues that concern young people. A single [...]

Scales: The Scaling Kit

Designed for Mental Health Workers, Social Workers, Educators, Psychologists and Therapists.
From evaluating the effectiveness of a program to mapping sensitive personal responses to noticing change, The Scaling Kit is a versatile measurement tool that is simple to use and suitable for myriad applications. The simple illustrations in The Scaling Kit [...]

Shadows and Deeper Shadows

Psychologists, social workers, counsellors and adult educators will find this powerful set of watercolour images can invite their clients or students to reflect on their experiences and explore the meaning of ’shadows’ in their lives.
This resource acknowledges that pain and suffering (such as grief, loneliness, depression, loss and violence) often [...]

Signposts

Chaplains, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counsellors: how do you build conversations about meaning? Spirituality? Connectedness? Transformation?
Here is a set of cards based on original photographs that will inspire exploration of the importance of purpose and belonging in our everyday lives. This tool is not based on a particular theology or philosophy [...]

Stones… have feelings too!

Describing feelings is at the heart of emotional literacy and therapeutic work.
Meet 52 quirky, engaging, happy, sad, afraid, shy, joyful and just plain outrageous “stone” characters – characters who wear their feelings all over their not-so-stony faces. On the back of each card are three possible words to help build a [...]