Jade Hogueisson: School Psychologist Angie Ross: School Social Worker The Incredible 5-Point Scale & Other Strategies to Teach Emotional Regulation Jade Hogueisson: School Psychologist Angie Ross: School Social Worker

The Incredible 5-Point Scale Helps make emotion recognition and feeling labels more concrete for the child. Feeling descriptions are coupled with a facial expression. Helps the child learn that emotions occur on a continuum of severity and can differ by degree (on a scale from 1-5). Helps the child understand varying perspectives with regards to emotion. What makes you nervous in a situation might not make me feel nervous! (A “3” for you might not be a “3” for me)

The higher the number: The bigger the emotion! More Incredible 5! For younger students (More concrete terms): 5: This can make me lose control! 4: This can make me MAD! 3: This could make me nervous. 2: This might make me feel uncomfortable. 1: I can handle this. For older students: 5: I could lose control. 4: Can really upset me. 3: Makes me nervous. 2: Bugs me. 1: Never bothers me. The higher the number: The bigger the emotion!

What can the Incredible 5-Point Scale address at home & school??? Feeling Recognition Perspective Taking Anger Management Stress Management Voice Volume/Regulation Social Anxiety

Example Teaching Opportunity What can a child do to manage stress? When I am at a 5, I fold my hands together. Then I sit down and close my eyes. Now, I feel like a 3 or 2. Next, I take three slow breaths. I think about something happy like my dog, Skippy. Now I am a 1.

Other Strategies to Teach Emotion Regulation Visual Thermometer Here the middle range would be the “ok” area. Can tie the thermometer to visuals to teach “too high” or “too low” behaviors Visual Speedometer Ties into body regulation and strategies that bring us back to a state of calm or “just right”. Visual Hand Concrete way to help children remember which coping skills to use. Maybe the “order” of their skills: Stop, Think, Relax.

Have an Incredible Question??? Please contact me with questions or ideas: jhogueisson@kcsec.org or (630) 551-9504