Emotional Regulation

Emotion regulation is the ability to identify your feelings and manage them appropriately. It’s important to identify whether a situation calls for a big or small emotions and manage your emotions accordingly.

  • Regulate emotions and demonstrate effective coping skills when faced with rejection

  • Identify your feelings

  • Practice resiliency in the face of rejection

  • Regulate emotions not only in disappointing situations, like losing a game, but also in situations in which it’s tempting to boast, such as winning a game.

  • Regulate emotions when false accusations are made

  • Engage in positive self-talk

  • Resist jumping to conclusions and negative self-talk,

  • Cope with feeling left out and hurt feelings

  • Resist peer pressure

  • Identify big emotions vs. small emotions and the appropriate reactions for each

  • Identify degrees of feelings in similar emotions