Curriculum

Allow 20–25 minutes, with permission to skip any card. No partner peer is required: the adult can read the supplied lines. Use one card at a time and hide model replies for Try. Brief adult-mediated vocabulary note: repeated exposure to other people’s traumatic experiences can affect helpers; vicarious trauma literature concerns such indirect exposure and changes in outlook. Compassion fatigue is a term used in professional helping contexts for strains including burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Ordinary tiredness after one conversation does not establish either. We use these words only to discuss limits and seeking adult help, not symptoms, diagnosis or treatment.

Use only the fictional cards. No real names, private messages, personal trauma stories or disclosures are requested. Learner may pass, write instead of role-play, or stop. Do not diagnose anyone or make a child responsible for counselling a friend. If a real concern about harm or safety arises, stop the exercise and involve a trusted responsible adult; do not promise secrecy about danger. No forced eye contact, touch, confrontation or public performance.

Record the learner’s actual words or work, task ID and any help. Do not prefill success. Allow oral, pointing or written responses as appropriate; oral independent reasoning is not automatically supported. Copied/scribed text is not independent composition or handwriting. No name, account, upload or real family record is required.

Use the complete materials on screen or print only the current sheet. Keep adult guidance out of learner view. Retain an earlier model only when the current step supplies it as context.