Money Habitudes: Guide for Professionals Working with Money-Related Issues (Third Edition).

The Money Habitudes Professionals Guide is designed for those working with Money Habitudes cards and covering money-related issues. Easy to understand and broadly applicable, the guide helps counselors, educators, therapists, financial practitioners and coaches when working with individuals, couples or groups. It provides plans for short icebreakers and longer standalone activities (15 minutes to 2 hours) as well as suggestions for using Money Habitudes cards with other programs: pre-marital, marriage enrichment, couples counseling, communication, conflict management, and life skills, as well as financial literacy, budgeting, investing and money management. It also includes tables for further exploration of typical financial behaviors (earning, spending, saving, investing, giving and debt) and typical life challenges (business or personal relationships, job and career); key questions and additional discussion topics. Pages from the guide may be copied to use as handouts. The guide is meant to supplement Money Habitudes cards and can be used with the workshop/training DVD. Companion materials include: a couples' guide, a workbook, a teen guide and lesson plans, and a DVD. Money Habitudes cards are available in the following versions: (1) Adult (2) Adult-Spanish (3) Teens (high school) and (4) Young Adults (18-25). (Author abstract)