Draw on Your Emotions

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In addition to Hope 4 Hurting Kids, Wayne previously started I Am A Child of Divorce and Divorce Ministry 4 Kids to help kids who are dealing with the disruption of their parents' relationship.

For more information about individual therapy, teen and child counseling, family therapy, teen group therapy, and art therapy services, please visit: www. The cards are designed to capture the deeper truth of how people experience their life, offering poignant descriptions for what someone may be feeling. Especially for clients who are not as used to doing art in therapy, this helps them to become more comfortable with the art process and become engaged through a prompt that can really have no right or wrong.

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.

I also often ask clients which feelings were easiest or hardest to do and how they felt while they were working on it. They might set up a directive in a way that will enhance affective processing or will directly give clients a prompt to make art related to their feelings. Dr Margot Sunderland is Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health London, Senior Associate of the Royal College of Medicine and Child Psychotherapist with over 30 years' experience of working with children and families. 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.We must also know the origin of our anger, what causes our guilt, why we are in love, and how angry, guilty or in love we are.

Ask participants to place their sticky note with the drawing on the common canvas, and, if they want, to say something about their drawing. All of these have been helpful for different clients and situations, and I continue to use them when they are appropriate. She is a First Prize award winning author, with 20 books in child mental health, published in nineteen countries. Students can exercise their creativity and demonstrate their knowledge of emotion vocabulary with this lovely resource.

My group of teens is really creative right now and I would love to do something like this with them! At the end of the exercise, we look at all of the pictures together, exploring how they are similar or different and discussing how the clients is feeling today. Wayne speaks frequently at conferences and churches on issues related to helping kids learn to deal with difficult emotions and life in modern families.