Emotional Self-Regulation and Artistic Therapies - Paperback

Emotional self-regulation is a major issue for children and adolescents today and this book produces innovative hands on repeatable art based techniques engaging body and mind, that expand the child or adolescent's tools to achieve emotional self-regulation. These step by step sequences engage the artistic languages of colour, sound, clay, sand and drama to provide innovative, engaging and effective skills for dealing with challenging emotional selfregulation behaviours. They address the core psychological processes and techniques of self-regulation including situation selection and modification, attentional deployment, response modulation and cognitive change.