Body Skills for Mental Health
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- Lessons for children: 0 – 5 Years Old
- Lessons for children: 6 – 10 Years Old
- Lessons for tweens and teens
- Resources for professionals
Lessons for children: 0 - 5 Years Old
Help your young child identify basic emotions, understand how they feel in their bodies, and recognize what those emotions might look like.
The physical symptoms of emotions are often the largest influences on a child’s behavior.
Learning about how emotions impact our body will help you to naturally curb tantrums and negative behavior because a child builds the self-regulation skills needed to manage big feelings.
These lessons help children build emotional awareness and introduce simple strategies for managing their feelings.
Lessons for children: 6 - 10 Years Old
Help your growing child identify how safe they feel in their bodies during big feelings and grow skills to better deal with them in the moment.
Physical sensations that are hard to manage lead to explosive or withdrawn behavior.
Until a child learns the connection between negative emotions and behavior they fail to recognize the cues to self-regulate or seek support.
These lessons help growing children build emotional awareness and introduce simple strategies for managing their feelings.
Lessons for tweens and teens:
Help your teen identify how new school experiences and growing hormones impacts their emotions. Help them feel capable of dealing with any type of emotional pressure by learning how to better control their feelings through body skills they can use in the moment.
Physical sensations that are hard to manage lead to explosive or withdrawn behavior.
Until a child learns the connection between negative emotions and body sensations they often feel alone when dealing with stressful experiences.
These lessons help teens build emotional awareness and introduce simple strategies for managing their feelings.
Resources for Professionals:
Help your patients or the parents of your students better understand how the body impacts behavior.
Physical sensations that are hard to manage lead to explosive or withdrawn behavior.
Until parents learn the connection between their child’s negative emotions and the body sensations they feel there is more issues with behavior in the home. That means that parents feel alone when dealing with tantrums or emotionally intense life experiences.
We hope these guides and posters help you educate. The support you provide can contribute to more happy and healthy homes!
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