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Me and My Feelings : What Emotions Are and How We Can Manage Them

by: Guarino, Robert; Jackson, Jeff; Ornstein, Robert, Ph.D.

ISBN: 9781933779713 | 1933779713

Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ishk Book Service
Pub. Date: 10/7/2010

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Summary

Me and My Feelings: What Emotions Are and How We Can Manage Them explores a crucial part of what makes us human. Understanding our emotions can help us to become successful and healthy adults, yet they often operate beneath our awareness. Me and My Feelings explains our emotions and how they affect our mood, thinking, and behavior. Reading it, young people will discover all that scientists and researchers know, and also explore questions yet to be answered.Written in a clear and accessible style by high school English teacher Robert Guarino, th... MOREe book is illustrated by Jeff Jackson with an engaging and multiethnic cast of teen characters to help illustrate the emotions and actions covered in the book. Readers will learn the difference between the five primary emotions - anger, fear, sadness, happiness, and disgust - and secondary emotions such as pride, envy, contempt, and jealousy. They'll find out how to interpret emotions, and also discover strategies for managing them. Illustrative quotes from real-life teens, as well as simple activities the reader can do to relate to the concepts presented, make Me and My Feelings come alive for young people. Also included are suggested activities for teachers to use in the classroom. Me and My Feelings can be used to supplement a hi gh school psychology course, or as a stand-alone unit in grades 8 through 12.Edited by renowned psychologist and author Robert Ornstein, Ph.D., and Denise Nessel, Ph.D., of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, the "All About Me" series provides an all-inclusive program designed to meet the American Psychological Association's National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula, the California Middle School and High School Health Standards, the California State High School Life Science Standards, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards - Health, and the National Board Professional Teaching Standards: Adolescence and Young Adulthood Science Standards. Focused on the mind, each text provides a set of lessons and various activities that teach sophisticated brain research in an accessible and interesting way. The first title in the series, Me and My Memory: Why We Forget Some Things and Remember Others, was published in the spring of 2009. What's the Catch: How to Avoid Getting Hooked and Manipulated is being published concurrently with Me and My Feelings. Forthcoming titles include Perception: What We See and Don't See which will be published in the Fall of this year.

The second book to come out in the "All About Me" series, Me and My Feelings: What Emotions Are and How We Can Manage Them, explores a crucial part of what makes us human. Written in a clear and accessible style by high school English teacher Robert Guarino, the book is illustrated by Jeff Jackson with an engaging and multiethnic cast of teen characters to help illustrate the emotions and actions covered in the book. Readers will learn the difference between the five primary emotions anger, fear, sadness, happiness, and disgust and secondary emotions such as pride, envy, contempt, and jealousy. They'll find out how to interpret emotions, and also discover strategies for managing them.

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