FCSS*2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Emotions
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Reflection of feelings: observe the feeling, name the feeling explicit, implicit, non-verbal and. Lecture notes: barbara example, most important feeling she is feeling is : overwhelmed, all of this is immobilizing her, reflecting feelings will help her identifying some positive, you seem overwhelmed - sounds to me that you are overwhelmed. Reflection of feelings cont"d q feelings are layered like an onion, e. g. consider the feeling words that someone who is stressed would use. Primary emotions = sad, mad, glad, scared, disgust, surprise. Social emotions = embarrassment, guilt, pride; these build on primary emotions and are learned in family or cultural contexts q mirroring a client"s body language encourages clients to express more emotions. If you mirror you will encourage them to speak more emotions to you. Observing the verbal and non-verbal language of emotions q first step of naming and understanding emotions is to increase vocabulary of emotions, and accurately observe and name them.
