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The Incredible 5-Point Scale & Other Strategies to Teach Emotional Regulation. Jade Hogueisson : School Psychologist Angie Ross: School Social Worker. The Incredible 5-Point Scale.
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The Incredible 5-Point Scale & Other Strategies to Teach Emotional Regulation Jade Hogueisson: School Psychologist Angie Ross: School Social Worker
The Incredible 5-Point Scale • Helps make emotion recognition and feeling labels more concrete for the child. Feeling descriptions are coupled with a facial expression. • Helps the child learn that emotions occur on a continuum of severity and can differ by degree (on a scale from 1-5). • Helps the child understand varying perspectives with regards to emotion. What makes you nervous in a situation might not make me feel nervous! (A “3” for you might not be a “3” for me)
More Incredible 5! For younger students (More concrete terms): • 5: This can make me lose control! • 4: This can make me MAD! • 3: This could make me nervous. • 2: This might make me feel uncomfortable. • 1: I can handle this. For older students: • 5: I could lose control. • 4: Can really upset me. • 3: Makes me nervous. • 2: Bugs me. • 1: Never bothers me. The higher the number: The bigger the emotion!
What can the Incredible 5-Point Scale address at home & school??? • Feeling Recognition • Perspective Taking • Anger Management • Stress Management • Voice Volume/Regulation • Social Anxiety
Example Teaching Opportunity What can a child do to manage stress? When I am at a 5, I fold my hands together. Then I sit down and close my eyes. Now, I feel like a 3 or 2. Next, I take three slow breaths. I think about something happy like my dog, Skippy. Now I am a 1.
Other Strategies to Teach Emotion Regulation Visual Thermometer • Here the middle range would be the “ok” area. • Can tie the thermometer to visuals to teach “too high” or “too low” behaviors Visual Speedometer • Ties into body regulation and strategies that bring us back to a state of calm or “just right”. Visual Hand • Concrete way to help children remember which coping skills to use. Maybe the “order” of their skills: Stop, Think, Relax.
Have an Incredible Question??? Please contact me with questions or ideas: jhogueisson@kcsec.org or (630) 551-9504