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Feeling Nice-Feeling Bad: Teaching Students How To Put Feelings Into Words
Teaching
children how to talk about, or how to cope with, troubling feelings (e.g.
feeling humiliated and resentful) and/or a conflictive classroom event (e.g.
angry feelings that escalate into a fight in the schoolyard) is a basic therapeutic communication intervention
aimed at teaching children how to resolve conflictive events in a more
resourceful way; most specifically, before the unresolved feelings spread-out
into a high-impact disruptive classroom event. Talking about the emotional component
of a troubling experience is an area of difficulty for many children, this
being particularly true for those students who already exhibit behavior
deficits, among them, children with weak impulse control and/or low ability to
tolerate frustration. Because talking constructively about what is troublesome
is too hard for them, we see these children displaying recurrent acting-out
episodes and/or aggressive behaviors in an unsuccessful attempt to find some
relief from the conflicted feelings that are fueling those behaviors. To being
able to process and to cope adequately with their troubling feelings, rather
than impulsively acting-out on those feelings, our initial intervention would
be to give children the words they can use to best describe the way they are
feeling. Only after children know how to label,
how to describe, and how to analyze all kinds of feelings (including
pleasant and unpleasant feelings) they will be able to process the emotional
component of any experience in a way that facilitates dealing with troublesome
events in a more positive and constructive way. The following list of words can
be used to help children build and/or strengthen their social-emotional
vocabularies. Most of the words listed next are considered feelings; some of
the words were included because they relate to feelings and help in identifying
feelings accurately; all words listed help develop awareness in the
instrumental role that feelings play in influencing behavior. Words are grouped
by similarity.
List of Words About Feelings:
Admiration: awe, captivated, delighted,
fascinated, reverent
Aggression: aggressive, brawl, hateful, violent
Anger: aggravated, agitated, angered, angry,
annoyed, bad, bitter, bothered, bugged, choleric, cranky, discomforted,
disturbed, enraged, exasperated, frustrated, furious, grouchy, grumpy,
ill-tempered, inconvenienced, indignant, infuriated, irascible, irate ,
irritated, mad, moody, mortified, outraged, rampaged, resentful, ruffled,
shocked, sore, temperamental, testy, uncomfortable, upset, wrathful
Anxiety: agitated, anxious, apprehensive,
awful, concerned, discomforted, dismayed, distraught, distressed, dreadful,
fussy, impatient, preoccupied, solicitous, tense, troubled, turmoil, uneasy,
worried, worrisome
Apathy: apathetic, bored, unenthusiastic,
unmotivated
Appreciation: appreciated, appreciative, cared,
cherished, esteemed, liked, loved, pleased, prized, respected, treasured,
valued
Attention: attentive, curious, interested
Aversion: animosity, aversive, detest,
disapproving, disgusted, dislike, grudging, resentful
Bad: cruel, ill-will, malicious, mean,
naughty
Betrayal: betrayed, disloyal, resentful,
unfaithful
Bravery: audacious, bold, brave, courageous,
fearless, gutsy, heroic, intrepid, unafraid, valiant
Calmness: calmed, eased/at ease, free from
trouble, lighthearted, patient, peaceful, placid, relaxed, serene, tranquil,
undisturbed
Confidence: awesome, confident/self-confident,
secure, sure, self-reliant
Defiance: antagonistic, argumentative,
aversive, bravado, defiant, disobedient, hostile, noncompliant, oppositional
Distress: afflicted, agitated, agonizing,
anguished, breakdown, burnout, discomforted, distressed, disturbed, exhausted,
hurt, miserable, overwhelmed, strained, stressed, tense, troubled, turmoil,
unsettled, worried
Embarrassment: abashed, ashamed, blushed,
disconcerted, embarrassed, humbled, humiliated, mortified, offended,
self-conscious
Enjoyment: enjoyable, joyful, nice, pleasant
Excitement: excited, frenetic, frenzied,
impatient
Fear: afraid, alarmed, apprehensive,
dismayed, fearful, frantic, frightened, horrified, intimidated, nervous,
petrified, scared, shocked, startled, terrified, terrorized
Frustration: demoralized, disappointed,
discouraged, disenchanted, disheartened, disillusioned, dispirited, frustrated,
overwhelmed
Guilt: blameful, contrived, guilty,
remorseful, (feeling) responsible, tortured
Happiness: cheerful, cheery, glad, good spirits,
happy, high-spirited, joyful, joyous, jubilant, lighthearted, merry, pleased,
sunny
Hurt: afflicted, agonizing, anguished,
awful, burdened, desperate, destroyed, devastated, distraught, heart ached,
heartbroken, hurt, in pain, miserable, resentful, ruined, tormented, tortured,
troubled, unhappy, upset
Indifference: apathetic, detached, indifferent,
unemotional, uninterested
Insecurity: agonizing, ambivalent, conflicted,
confused, insecure, having mixed feelings, turmoil, unresolved
Love: adore, affection, caring,
compassionate, cordial, heartfelt, infatuated, sympathetic, warm
Mixed: bittersweet
Motivation: competitive, curious, challenged,
decided, determined, enthusiastic, fired, firm, interested, motivated,
passionate, resolute, resolved
Nervousness: agitated, apprehensive, awkward,
edgy, excitable, fidgety, fussy, impatient, jittery, jumpy, nervous, restless,
tense, uneasy, worried, worrisome
Optimistic: confident, hopeful, positive
Other: envious, jealous, obsessed
Pessimistic: demoralized, despair, desperate,
discouraged, disheartened, dispirited, grave, helpless, hopeless, negative,
self-defeating, unworthy
Pride: awesome, boastful, bragging rights,
proud
Sadness: anguished, blues, cheerless,
depressed, disconsolate, gloomy, grieving, heart ached, heartbroken,
inconsolable, in pain, languished, low in spirits, melancholic, miserable,
mourning, nostalgic, sad, sorrowful, unhappy
Surprise: amazed, astonished, shocked,
surprised, wonder
Vengeance: revengeful, spiteful, vengeful,
vindictive
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