The book contains a new section explaining how to get the most out of combining the illustrated activities in the book with the cards to encourage truly meaningful conversations and taking steps towards positive action. The new suggestions will take the work with children from labelling feelings without a real connection to deeper meaning to an integration of feelings, imagination and language that deepen awareness and supports emotional development. The Emotion Cards are 48 emotive and artistic images designed to help people to review their emotions and their relationships in a meaningful and often transformative way. This manual contains a series of structured, easy to do picture exercises to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions in everyday life.

I would definitely recommend it to anyone working in a supporting role with children, young people and individuals.Her books, which form the Helping Children with Feelings series, are used as key therapeutic tools by child professionals all over the UK and abroad.

The addition of the cards will help adults open the conversation with children/young people about difficult feelings. Dr Margot Sunderland is Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health London, Senior Associate of the Royal College of Medicine and Child Psychotherapist with over thirty years’ experience of working with children and families. The book also offers opportunities to rehearse other ways of functioning by trying out alternatives safely on paper. The Emotion Cards are 48 emotive and artistic images designed to help people to review their emotional life (past and present) in a meaningful and often transformative way.This manual contains a series of structured easy-to-do picture exercises which help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions.

I have used this book and the printable work sheets in many settings as part of my counselling practice and I have found them to be very useful with individuals of all ages as it always the individual to problem solve their issue and escape their 'fog'. There may be something said for catharsis but there's no hint of focusing on a client's strengths in this book, which is what I'd hoped for. Draw on Your Emotions is a bestselling resource to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions through drawing.The cards are designed to capture the deeper truth of how people experience their life, offering poignant descriptions for what someone may be feeling. Draw on Your Emotions is a bestselling resource to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions through drawing.