How to Manage Your Emotions
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The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt is an urgent investigation into the collapse in youth mental health, revealing how the rise of smartphones and social media has reshaped childhood and adolescence, leading to a surge in mental illness. Haidt explores the detrimental effects of increased screen time, declining childhood freedom, and the loss of play-based experiences, offering practical advice for parents, schools, governments, and teens themselves to navigate this crisis.
"Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion" by Paul Bloom challenges the widely held belief that empathy is always beneficial, revealing it to be a potentially harmful emotion. Through rigorous scientific investigation, Bloom argues that empathy can lead to biased and irrational decision-making, particularly in global issues such as charity, criminal justice, and climate change. Drawing on research in psychology and neuroscience, Bloom advocates for rational compassion as a more effective approach to addressing human conflict and promoting genuine understanding.
How to manage your emotions
Explore the framework known as the Process Model, a psychological tool to help you identify, understand, and regulate your emotions.
After a week of studying, you feel confident that you'll ace your exam. But when you get your grade back, it's much lower than you expected. You’re devastated, and the disappointment is hard to shake. Should you be trying to look on the bright side? And is controlling your emotions even possible? Explore techniques to help you identify, understand, and regulate your emotions.
1-2-3 Magic® & Emotion Coaching Special Needs Adaptation
1-2-3 Magic® & Emotion Coaching is based on two underlying perspectives: first, that children can be taught to respond more flexibly when they are frustrated or upset and second, that parents and carers can be taught easy-to-use skills they can use at particular parenting moments. This adaptation of the 1-2-3 Magic® & Emotion Coaching program is tailored towards family specialists that work with parents and carers of children with special needs. The professional training includes role-play, group discussion, worksheets and videos tailored to this audience.
If you have completed your 1-2-3 Magic & Emotion Coaching training, you can enroll in the Special Needs Adaptation at the refresher rate.
Tough Conversations™ for Frontline Staff
Psychologist, Michael Hawton and his team, present Tough Conversations for Frontline Staff. A practical workshop for those at the frontline of a school, council or service organisation to manage difficult, emotional encounters with members of the public.
This workshop provides the practical elements and skills for effectively dealing with offensive behaviour as it arises and what to say to defuse strong emotions.
Attendees will see video examples of both poorly conducted conversations and, by contrast, more effective conversations.