Description

If you are seeking practical tools to help children understand what they feel and how to respond to those feelings, this module is designed just for you!
This comprehensive module provides counsellors with evidence-based science and practical strategies to support parents and children in cultivating emotional intelligence (EQ) and emotional regulation within family systems. It highlights the significance of self-awareness, regulation, social skills, and empathy as foundational skills for lifelong emotional growth and mental well-being. By integrating different viewpoints, it illustrates that managing emotions can be understood through multiple lenses.

Whether supporting parents of newborns, guiding toddlers through intense emotional experiences, or assisting adolescents as they navigate complex social and psychological challenges, this module equips professionals with practical, easy-to-apply strategies to guide parents and children across developmental stages. 

Additional resources includes:

• Comprehensive Emotional Granularity list 
• Emotions–Feelings–Sensations (Afrikaans and English) 
• Intensity of emotions
• Comprehensive EQ Summary
• Age-appropriate Co-regulation and Self-regulation techniques
• 101+ Therapeutic and Playful interventions 
• 101+ Ways to Teach Children Social Skills 66,500
• Fun with Feelings workbook
• Non-verbal Communication exercises
• Social problem-solving Task Cards 

Here is exactly what we cover in this course:

• Teaching children how to know what they feel (emotional awareness) and what to do about it (regulation). 
• Identifying emotional triggers
• The role of emotions, feelings, sensations, reactions in emotional intelligence and regulation 
• Ways that parents can support a child's Emotional Intelligence, or undermine it.
• Reasons why children have intense emotions and struggle with regulation compared to adults.
• The role of the nervous system in emotional regulation.
• Explaining nervous system regulation and emotions in ways that make sense for children.
• How self‑regulation develops through Co‑regulation.
• Practical and Age-appropriate regulation techniques.
• Underlying messages emotions convey in terms of unmet needs (e.g. “I feel anxious — I need information”).
• Helpful phrases parents can use during children’s big feelings.
• Therapeutic and playful activities to teach self-awareness, regulation, social skills, and empathy.