LifeFacts: Managing Emotions

LifeFacts: Managing Emotions

This program teaches your students helpful techniques in effectively managing the four basic emotions: anger, sadness, fear, and joy. Your students will learn the four-step C.A.L.M. System for identifying and reacting to “feelings” to optimize personal satisfaction, promote positive relationships, and improve self-esteem. The C.A.L.M approach is especially suitable for use with persons with learning and developmental disabilities as it stresses active management rather than analysis of emotions. Common, real-life situations that typically evoke specific emotions are illustrated, as well as, an effective C.A.L.M. response to them.

With this program you’ll help students:

1. Learn to calm themselves before deciding to act on their feelings.
2. Learn that having feelings does not mean they have to be acted out.
3. Express anger without blowing-up or resorting to violence.
4. Cope with sadness and compensate for loss.
5. Handle fear by taking action instead of withdrawing.
6. Understand what makes people happy, including the “Seven Steps To Happiness.”