Not everyone has the words or experience to describe exactly how they feel. Some clients may struggle to identify or express their emotions clearly for different reasons. Factors like their age, language skills, and emotional awareness can affect how well someone understands and communicates their feelings.
The "How Are You Feeling Today?" poster is a visual aid designed for clients to improve their emotional literacy. It features more than 20 emojis that they can use to describe their feelings or moods. Alongside basic emotions like happy, sad, and angry, it also includes more specific feelings that paint a clearer picture of their emotional state.
Using this poster helps young people expand their emotional vocabulary, which makes it easier for them to communicate and develop emotional regulation skills. They can also keep a journal where they write down how they feel each day while looking up new words from the poster.
Parents and teachers can check their entries about their use of words and feelings, and have regular conversations about them. As an additional resource, consider our What Color Are You chart, which complements this poster by providing color coded coping skills to support each emotion.
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Want more resources like this? Check out our full catalog of feelings worksheets and handouts.
References:
- Double, K. S., Pinkus, R. T., & MacCann, C. (2022). Emotionally intelligent people show more flexible regulation of emotions in daily life. Emotion, 22(2), 397-402. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001069
- Du, J., An, Y., Ding, X., Zhang, Q., & Xu, W. (2019). State mindfulness and positive emotions in daily life: An upward spiral process. Personality and Individual Differences, 141, 57-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.11.037
- Nezlek, J. B., & Kuppens, P. (2008). Regulating positive and negative emotions in daily life. Journal of Personality, 76(3), 561-580. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00496.x
- Trampe, D., Quoidbach, J., & Taquet, M. (2015). Emotions in everyday life. PLOS ONE, 10(12), e0145450. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145450
