Personal:
1. What is something you like about yourself?
2. What is one of your earliest memories?
3. What’s one of your favorite memories?
4. What’s the hardest part of your life right now?
5. What do you worry about the most?
6. What helps you feel better when you’re upset or stressed?
7. What can I do to help you when you’re upset or stressed?
8. How often do you feel sad?
9. When have you felt angry recently?
10. When are some times you’ve felt worried?
11. What hurts your feelings?
12. What’s the best compliment you’ve ever gotten?
13. What does your perfect day look like?
14. If you could be famous, would you? What would you want
to be famous for?
School:
15. What was the best (or worst) thing that happened at
school today?
16. What was something that made you laugh today?
17. If you could choose, who would you like to sit by in class?
18. Who would you not want to sit by in class? Why?
19. What was your favorite part of lunch or recess?
20. What part of the day do you look forward to?
21. What part of the day do you dread?
22. Which class are you learning the most in?
23. Which class are you learning the least in?
24. What do you think you want to do when you graduate?
25. Are there any bullies in your classes?
26. Have they ever targeted you? How do you deal with
them?
Social:
27. Who is your best friend? What do you like about him/her?
What do you think they like about you?
28. Who do you wish would listen more closely to you?
29. Do you have any friends you’re worried about right now?
30. Are you happy with the number of friends you have?
31. Do you ever feel lonely or left out?
32. What makes a good friend?
33. Who in your class is a really good friend to others?
34. What makes someone a bad friend?
35. Has anyone ever been a bad friend to you?
36. What does it mean to be popular at your school?
37. Do you want to be popular?
38. What do you think true popularity looks like?
39. Would you consider yourself more shy or outgoing?
40. Is there anyone at school that you would like to get to
know better?
41. Is there anyone at school that seems to get left out or
teased a lot?
42. What’s your most embarrassing moment?
Relationships:
43. Do your friends have boyfriends/girlfriends?
44. Who do you think has a healthy dating relationship with
their boyfriend or girlfriend? Who doesn’t?
45. What makes a healthy relationship?
46. Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend?
47. What are the qualities you would look for in someone you
want to date?
48. Is there anyone you have a crush on?
49. What do you like about them?
50. Is there anything about them that might be a “red flag”
or you’re not sure about?
51. Do you know anyone who’s gay?
52. Does anyone treat them differently?
53. What do you think about that?
54. How old do you think you have to be to fall in love? What
about get married?
Future:
55. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would
you go?
56. What is your goal in life?
57. What do you hope your life will be like 10 years from
now?
58. If you had $100 (or $1000, etc) to spend, how would you
spend it?
59. Would you ever get a tattoo? Why or why not? What
would it be?
Family:
60. What do you like most about me/your other
parent/siblings?
61. What would you change about me/ other parent/ sibling?
62. What do you think I like most about you?
63. What do you think I would change about you?
64. What is something you wish I would do more often?
65. Less often?
66. Do you feel comfortable talking to me about anything?
67. What could I do to make you feel more comfortable?
68. How do you think your friends’ family relationships
compare to ours? Are they closer/more distant? Why do you
think that?
69. Is there anything you wish our family would do together
more often?
70. Do you think the discipline in our family is fair? What
would you change?
Values:
71. Do you believe in God? Why or why not?
72. If so, how do you picture God?
73. What do you think happens after death?
74. Do you think there is one best religion?
75. What do you think is the meaning of life?
76. Do adults automatically deserve respect? Do kids?
77. How do people earn respect?
78. How would you change the world if you could?
79. Do you think it’s ever okay to lie? What kinds of
situations?
80. Who do you look up to? Why?
81. Who do you think looks up to you?
82. What do you think are the three most important traits a
person could have?
83. What are three things that you are grateful for today?
What is one thing you would change about school?
Attention and concentration: Sustained effort, doing activities without distraction
and being able to hold that effort long enough to get the task done.
Receptive (understanding) language: Comprehension of language.
Expressive (using) language: The use of language through speech, sign or
alternative forms of communication to communicate wants, needs, thoughts and ideas.
Play skills: Voluntary engagement in self motivated activities that are normally
associated with pleasure and enjoyment where the activities may be, but are not
necessarily, goal oriented.
Pre-language skills: The ways in which we communicate without using words and
include things such as gestures, facial expressions, imitation, joint attention and eye-
contact.
Self regulation: The ability to obtain, maintain and change one’s emotion, behaviour,
attention and activity level appropriate for a task or situation in a socially acceptable
manner.
Executive functioning: Higher order reasoning and thinking skills.
Planning and sequencing: The sequential multi-step task or activity performance to
achieve a well-defined result.
Play with your child to help develop joint attention, turn-taking, shared interests,
cooperation and appropriate play with toys.
Emotions: Help the child to understand and display their own emotions and to
recognise these emotions in other people.
Empathy: Help the child to understand and recognise how other people are feeling in
particular situations.
Social stories: These are stories which are used to teach children specific social skills
that they may find difficult to understand or are confusing. The goal of the story is to
increase the child’s understanding by describing in detail a specific situation and
suggesting an appropriate social response.
Social skill groups: These are groups run with the express purpose of mastering
social interaction with others.
