The Emotion Cards are 48 emotive and artistic images designed to help people to review their emotional life (past and present) in a meaningful and often transformative way. Dr Margot Sunderland is Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health London, Co-Director Trauma Informed Schools UK, Founding Director, Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (academic partner of University of East London), and Child and Adult Psychotherapist with over thirty years experience. The second edition of Draw on Your Emotions contains a new section that explains how to get the most out of combining the activities in the book with these cards to encourage meaningful conversations and take steps towards positive action. We have a small team of people working in our office but we like to answer the phone rather than use an automated service.

One has an image of a garden gate, and the other has an image of a person sleeping in a bed, with a huge thought/dream bubble above them. The picture activities have been carefully designed to help ease the process of both talking about feelings and exploring life choices, by trying out alternatives safely on paper. Offering a broad range of exercises which can be adapted for any ability or age from middle childhood onwards, this unique book explores a range of emotions surrounding a person¹s important life experiences, key memories, relationships, best times, worst times and who they are as a person.They can help promote a new clarity of thought as a first step towards positive action and bring seemingly huge, unmanageable and insoluble problems into a new perspective. This beautiful resource is also the perfect supplement to the second edition of Dr Margot Sunderland’s book Draw on Your Emotions. There may be something said for catharsis but there's no hint of focusing on a client's strengths in this book, which is what I'd hoped for. I have used this book and the printable work sheets in many settings as part of my counselling practice and I have found them to be very useful with individuals of all ages as it always the individual to problem solve their issue and escape their 'fog'. A very useful A 4 book for people working with children and young people with social/emotional problems.

There are activities in this book that seem to be designed to completely break a client down emotionally before building them back up again. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The book contains a new section explaining how to get the most out of combining the illustrated activities in the book with the cards to encourage truly meaningful conversations and taking steps towards positive action. The cards are designed to capture the deeper truth of how people experience their life, offering poignant descriptions for what someone may be feeling. incredibly simple to use a useful tool for stimulating in depth communication around important emotional issues.

I work with students aged 5-13 in a school setting and I had hoped this resource would be somewhat lighthearted with a bit of an art therapy focus. The cards will not go out of date as I imagine they will illustrate life’s difficulties that are timeless. This manual contains a series of structured, easy to do picture exercises to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions in everyday life. Built around five key themes, each section contains a simple picture exercise with clear objectives, instructions and suggestions for development.

It helps to promote a new clarity of thought as a first step towards positive action and bring seemingly huge, unmanageble and insoluble problems into a new perspecitve.