Helping Young Children Express their Feelings In Appropriate Ways Seena M. Skelton, Ph.D.
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Helping Young Children Helping Young Children Express their FeelingsExpress their Feelings
Helping Young Children Helping Young Children Express their FeelingsExpress their Feelings
In Appropriate WaysIn Appropriate Ways
Seena M. Skelton, Ph.DSeena M. Skelton, Ph.D
Agenda• The Thinking-Feeling-Behaving Connection
• Understanding What We Know About Behavior
• Children’s Right to Feelings
• Helping children name, claim, and express their feelings appropriately
Creating the right conditions
• Established rules and routines
• Positive adult interactions
• Positive adult-child interactions
• Encouragement of and Acknowledgement for appropriate behavior
• Materials about feelings
Thinking - Feeling - Behaving
What we know about behavior
Behavior is affected by physical or emotional state
Behavior is influenced by factors inside and outside the immediate context
We use behavior to communicate a need or want.
Behavior changes as people learn and apply new skills
The “Right” to express feelings
• Children have the right to their feelings
• Adults need to validate the feelings of a child
• Children learn by watching and being shown
Helping children name, claim, and express their feelings
• Reflective Listening• Model how to
express their feeling to peers and adults
• Help the child to practice expressing their feeling
Reflective Listening
• Accept and respect all feelings• Show that you are listening to what the child
is saying• Tell what you hear him or her saying • State what you think he or she is feeling• Give the child’s feeling a name
Helping an angry child to express feelings appropriately
• Focus on the behavior• Teach the child to consider angry feelings as
a problem to be solved• Help the child express angry feelings in
words• Use “You-messages” to encourage children
to express their feelings in words• Teach by example
Teach Children S.T.A.R
• Stop
• Think and
• Reflect
Social Skills Instruction
• Tell Them How
• Show Them How
• Have Them Practice
• Give Them Feedback
• Encourage and acknowledge the Skill Frequently