Helping Children Understand and Express Emotions by Emma Goodall

Helping Children Understand and Express Emotions by Emma Goodall

It is frustrating for children and their families when a child can't recognise or safely express their emotions. This book will explain why many children, including children with disabilities struggle to learn about and manage their emotions and then it will give you practical strategies to support them to do so.These strategies require 5-20 minutes a day and are suitable for all people regardless of their age, challenges and their support needs. However, whilst children are still learning about their emotions they need the adults around them to help them manage their emotions. This book will provide you with 3 key practical and easy to implement strategies that will be of use when helping children to manage their emotions before they are able to do so unaided.This book uses evidence based strategies that the author has been implementing in schools and pre-schools in Australia and New Zealand for several years. Every child who has been using the strategies described in this book has developed more understanding of their emotions and been able to express them more safely after 8-10 weeks. The author has also used these strategies in her private practice with a range of adults, who have said that they feel calmer and more in control. This book provides parents and educators with all the tools they need to support children and young people to develop the practical skills needed to learn to understand and effectively express their emotions. It provides the neuroscience and biological explanations behind why children loose control and practical activities to help them develop their interoception, the very foundation of being able to self-manage and self-regulate emotions.

Matthew Bennett holds a PhD in Disability Studies from Flinders University, South Australia. His PhD examined the life experiences of adults who live on autism spectrum. Specifically, he has explored the education, depression, employment, and intimate relationships of adults with Asperger's syndrome. He has also lectured in Disability Studies at Griffith University, Queensland. Matthew is an active advocate for the rights of people on the autism spectrum.
Emma Goodall, PhD, is an autism author, researcher and consultant in South Australia. She is reviewing programs and developing and implementing research based policy and programs to enable students on the autism spectrum to flourish. Emma combines her professional and academic skills and knowledge with her lived experience of Asperger's to help people understand what it means to be on the autistic spectrum and how different life is for those on and not on the spectrum. Emma is passionate about helping families and schools to facilitate success for children on the spectrum. Emma lives in Adelaide with her partner and their dog. She is also on the executive committees of the Australian Society for Autism Research and the Autistic Self Advocacy Network of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.

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ISBN 13	9780648280040
ISBN 10	0648280047
Title	Helping Children Understand and Express Emotions
Author	Emma Goodall
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Healthy Possibilities
Year published	2019-11-08
Number of pages	70
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.