Turtle Technique Case Study
YH struggles with controlling her emotions and gets angry easily. The intervention “Turtle Technique” was suggested to discuss this concern. The “Turtle Technique” is a cognitive behavioural intervention strategy that has been successfully used with children grades K to 3 (Greenberg, Kusche & Quamma, 1995; WesbterStratton & Hammond, 1997). The turtle technique sequential steps are: 1) the child learns to recognize when they feel angry, 2) when they recognize this feeling (i.e. either internally through thoughts or physically in his/her body) they think ‘Stop’, 3) after thinking ‘stop’ the teacher instructs them to go into his/her ‘shell’ (i.e., draw your arms/hands close to your body and either put your head down or inside your shirt), 4)