ERIC Number: ED389643
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1993
Pages: 95
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: ISBN-1-56499-010-9
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Feelings Are Facts, Helping Kids Understand, Manage, and Learn from Their Feelings.
Akin, Terri; And Others
This book provides a sequential program to explore and develop communication skills about their own feelings and behaviors. Designed for use in grades 3-8, activities can be adapted to fit specific needs and audiences. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Introduction," includes: (1) "Important Feelings Concepts"; (2) "Where do Feelings Come From?"; (3) "The Emotional Operating Systems"; (4) "Changing Responses to Feelings"; (5) "Repressing Feelings"; (6) "Feelings and Stress"; and (7) "Understanding, Managing and Learning from Feelings." Part 2, "Activities," contains: (1) "The Active Listener"; (2) "Communication Counts"; (3) "Say What You Mean"; (4) "Don't Say 'You,' Say 'I'"; (5) "Don't Say 'You'--Say 'I'"; (6) "What's Your Style?"; (7) "Should I, or Shouldn't I?"; (8) "The Write Stuff"; (9) "A Vocabulary of Feelings"; (10) "A Time I Remember Feelings"; (11) "Feel Your Feelings"; (12) "Pantomime a Feeling"; (13) "Feelings and Your Body"; (14) "The 'Feeling' of Poetry"; (15) "Tune In to Your Feelings"; (16) "Painting Our Feelings"; (17) "Magic Glasses"; (18) "Be Happy!"; (19) "The Keys to Happiness"; (20) "What's on My Mind"; (21) "The Land Remembers"; (22) "What Good Are Feelings?"; (23) "That's Unfair!"; (24) "Developing Responsible Feelings"; (25) "Take Responsibility for Your Feelings!"; (26) "Positive vs. Negative"; (27) "One of the Scariest Things That Ever Happened to Me"; (28) "We All Have Fears"; (29) "Rational Fears vs. Irrational Fears"; (30) "Fear Is a Monster"; (31) "Fear Busters"; (32) "Sequencing Anger"; (33) "Personal Anger Scale"; (34) "Let's Make Up"; (35) "Make It Better Letter"; (36) "First Feelings"; (37) "Dealing with Anger"; (38) "What's Your Bag of Tricks?"; and (39) "Literature Connection." (EH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Cooperation, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Adjustment, Group Activities, Intergroup Relations, Interpersonal Communication, Problem Solving, Prosocial Behavior, Social Control, Social Studies, Teamwork
Innerchoice Publishing, P.O. Box 2476, Spring Valley, CA 91979-0300.
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Counselors; Practitioners
Language: English
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