I volunteer as a counsellor in training and I have found this product a great resource to help clients draw on their emotions. Draw on Your Emotions is a bestselling resource to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions through drawing. I would definitely recommend it to anyone working in a supporting role with children, young people and individuals. I particularly like the theoretical explanation mixed with superb, doable activities/exercises and copyable handouts.

I believe that using such directives for stabilized, long-term, outpatient groups or individuals would be more successful. The cards are designed to capture the deeper truth of how people experience their life, offering poignant descriptions for what someone may be feeling. This revised and updated second edition also contains a new section on how to use the superbly emotive The Emotion Cards (9781138070981) to facilitate deeper therapeutic conversations.Margot is an acknowledged expert in her field and her passion to make such important understandings and ways of working with troubled children accessible to ordinary people - parents, teachers, support workers - is manifest in the old excellent editions. I work with students aged 5-13 in a school setting and I had hoped this resource would be somewhat lighthearted with a bit of an art therapy focus. To have images that are so evocative will enhance the dialogue and give opportunities for all involved to tickle the imagination and make more sense and help the children digest their emotional responses to life situations that cause them such pain and difficulty. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

This beautiful resource is also the perfect supplement to the second edition of Dr Margot Sunderland’s book Draw on Your Emotions. The Emotion Cards are 48 emotive and artistic images designed to help people to review their emotions and their relationships in a meaningful and often transformative way. It offers opportunities to rehearse other ways of functioning by trying out alternatives safely on paper in exercises that can be adapted for any age range and ability.

The picture activities have been carefully designed to help ease the process of both talking about feelings and exploring life choices, by trying out alternatives safely on paper. Due to the level of functioning/comprehension/attention-span, some of the directives have not been entirely successful. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Her internationally acclaimed book, "The Science of Parenting" has been voted one of the top brain books of our time by The Dana Foundation. She is a British Medical Association award winning author and has published over twenty books, which collectively have been translated into 18 languages and published in 24 countries.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This revised and updated second edition also contains a new section on how to use the superbly emotive The Emotion Cards to facilitate deeper therapeutic conversations. It helps to promote a new clarity of thought as a first step towards positive action and bring seemingly huge, unmanageble and insoluble problems into a new perspecitve. Her books, which form the Helping Children with Feelings series are used as key therapeutic tools by child professionals all over the UK and abroad. In my work, the directives I have found most helpful include pages for strength building, psycho-education and anger awareness/management.Providing a series of photocopiable illustrations, the book is a source of effective readymade material. One has an image of a garden gate, and the other has an image of a person sleeping in a bed, with a huge thought/dream bubble above them. The cards will not go out of date as I imagine they will illustrate life’s difficulties that are timeless. Providing a series of photocopy-able illustrations, the book is a source of effective readymade material. There are activities in this book that seem to be designed to completely break a client down emotionally before building them back up again.

Helps to promote a new clarity of thought as a first step towards positive action and bring seemingly huge, unmanageable and insoluble problems into a new perspective.incredibly simple to use a useful tool for stimulating in depth communication around important emotional issues. The relief of having found an image that accurately conveys your familiar mental states, can be profound. g. why using imagery is a potent way of supporting children to process feelings - with very usable activities that ordinary people can use to great effect with their children or with the children with whom they work.