My feelings diary
This log encourages children to track their emotions throughout the day by noting how they feel and how they are prompted to respond.
It intends to be a helpful tool for building emotional awareness and identifying patterns in feelings and reactions.
References and Further Reading
- Cohen, J.S., Edmunds, J.M., Brodman, D.M., Benjamin, C.L., Kendall, P.C. (2013). Using self-monitoring: implementation of collaborative empiricism in cognitive-behavioral therapy. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 20(4), 419-428.
- Greenberg, L. S. (2004). Emotion-focused therapy. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 11(1), 3–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.388.
- Lynch, T. R., Schneider, K. S., & Hempel, R. J. (2013). That “poker face” just might lose you the game! The impact of expressive suppression and mimicry on sensitivity to facial expressions of emotion. Emotion, 13(5), 852–866. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032847.
- Mennin, D. S., & Fresco, D. M. (2013). Emotion regulation therapy. In J. J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of Emotion Regulation (2nd ed., pp. 469–490). New York: Guilford Press.

