Appropriate Population:

• Any age
• Any level of communication and cognitive ability

Goal:

• Identifying others’ and own emotions through facial expressions and body language
• Understanding emotions

Steps:

1. Incorporate this activity with a pre-existing activity that the client is doing (ie: playing, eating, getting dressed, having a conversation)
2. During the pre-existing activity, ask the client to identify what emotions they and you are feeling. 
3. They can use the feeling faces chart template PDF as a visual to help identify and express which emotion they and you are feeling. 

Step up: 

• Discuss why each person is feeling that emotion.
• Remove visual. Clients need to use their own words to describe their emotions. 

Step down:

• AHA to provide narrow down fixed choices when identifying emotions (provide 2 or 4 options)
• Client to only identify one person’s emotion (AHA’s or client’s)– whichever is easier for the client to identify.s

Resources:

• Feeling faces chart template PDF