Draw on Your Emotions

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She is the principal artist at The London Art House and has illustrated over 20 books, which have been published in many countries. 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. I particularly like the theoretical explanation mixed with superb, doable activities/exercises and copyable handouts. We have a small team of people working in our office but we like to answer the phone rather than use an automated service.

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. Dr Sunderland is the author of over 20 books in child mental health, which collectively have been translated into 18 languages and published in 24 countries.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. Our trainees find the Draw On books very helpful in training and then also with their children - not just those children identified for special help. Each page has a suggestion of how to use it which can be useful or you can adapt it to the situation you work in. This manual contains a series of structured, easy to do picture exercises to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions in everyday life. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

This manual contains a series of structured "easy to do" picture exercises to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions in everyday life.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. The relief of having found an image that accurately conveys your familiar mental states, can be profound.

This manual contains a series of structured easy-to-do picture exercises which help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions. 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. Her internationally acclaimed book, "The Science of Parenting" has been voted one of the top brain books of our time by The Dana Foundation.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. I am a student and this is an investment but I am disappointed as I cannot start using the book stray away and this may double the cost. The cards are designed to capture the deeper truth of how people experience their life, offering poignant descriptions for what someone may be feeling. I absolutely support the need for updated editions of these superb books and think the cards to be incredibly helpful in supporting children to tell their stories and process trauma. The addition of the cards will help adults open the conversation with children/young people about difficult feelings.

There are activities in this book that seem to be designed to completely break a client down emotionally before building them back up again. The cards will not go out of date as I imagine they will illustrate life’s difficulties that are timeless. They can help 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. This beautiful resource is also a perfect supplement to Draw on Your Emotions, Margot Sunderland¹s bestselling book. Offers opportunities to rehearse other ways of functioning by trying out alternatives safely on paper in exercises which can be adapted for any age range and ability.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. Nicky Armstrong holds an MA from the Slade School of Fine Art and a BA Hons in Theatre Design from the University of Central England.