Overview of the Emotions series:
In our two-course Emotions series, explore how emotions are the undercurrent of all forms of social communication and are at the heart of personal problem solving, motivation, relationships, and life memories (episodic memory). This information applies to everyone, including typically developing individuals, but this series focuses on teaching about emotion to individuals with social-emotional learning challenges. Across the two courses, discover how to teach students, clients, and patients about their emotions and build self-regulation across three contexts: 1. Me: pursuing goals to meet the individual’s needs; 2. We: working collectively to be part of a group (e.g., in the classroom, on the playground, at a restaurant, on a team); 3. Us: interacting face-to-face with one or more people. Engage in hands-on activities and explore use of treatment* scales and frameworks to help your students, clients, and patients unpack the social-emotional experience and understand how emotions take center stage in all aspects of life.

Emotions Part 1:
In this first course in the series, explore information and research-based treatment ideas spanning these topics to help individuals understand and regulate their emotions:

• The negative¬–positive emotional framework and how the brain processes negative emotions differently than positive emotions
• Emotions and personal memory making (episodic memories), which are required in all environments, including in school, community, home, and vocational settings
• Memory and narrative language: how emotions impact how we explain ourselves to others
• Strategies to break the cycle when a student, client, or patient gets stuck recalling only negative experiences
• The difference between feelings and emotions
• Hands-on activities to explore the depth and complexity of an individual’s feelings and emotions. Practice using treatment tools (e.g., visual scales, treatment frameworks, etc.) that help make the complicated social experience more explicit and understandable
• The definition of self-conscious emotions and their tie to social anxiety
• How emotions are embedded within the Social Thinking–Social Competency Model
• How Superflex’s Worry Wall and other Unthinkable characters can be used to encourage expression of the emotional self to foster self-regulation
• The use of manipulatives to guide individuals to express their feelings and experiences, and to socially problem solve when language falls short
• Case study: Review of longitudinal treatment for a grumpy 13-year-old; how the invention of the Pyramid of Dislike, paired with Social Thinking’s Friendship Pyramid, provided self-discovery and motivation to increase peer engagement and emotional satisfaction
• And much more!

Learn a lot to help your students, clients, and patients—and a lot about yourself, given how this fascinating topic impacts us all!

*Treatment refers to using conceptual and strategy-based frameworks to help individuals improve their social competencies.

1. Describe two major ways our brains process negative emotions differently than positive emotions.
2. Explain how graphing one’s feelings across a day contributes to the development of emotional self-awareness.
3. Explain the role self-conscious emotions play in social self-awareness.
4. Explain how emotional reappraisal is different than emotional suppression and why both strategies are important.
5. Explain how to create a Pyramid of Dislike to complement an individual’s exploration of the Social Thinking Friendship Pyramid.
6. Explain why getting perspective is more important than taking perspective when seeking to understand an individual’s experience.

This agenda may change without notice.

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• ASHA: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• CES: Commonwealth Educational Seminars
• NBCC: National Board for Certified Counselors
• And more!

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