What It Captures
The map captures reported feelings, body locations, sensation descriptions, and uncertainty or incomplete associations.
Body Feelings Map for Child Trauma-Focused Therapy
Body Feelings Map is a practitioner-supported body-emotion mapping tool for children in trauma-focused treatment. Practitioners use it to help a child connect specific feelings with body locations and sensation words so early distress cues can be recognized for later coping work.
Create a sample body-emotion map with fictional associations.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
Repeat Use
Saved maps can support descriptive review of added or changed associations across sessions without treating changes as clinical progress by default.
Limitations
The tool does not diagnose medical symptoms, interpret body sensations, require comprehensive body coverage, or score distress.
Is Body Feelings Map a medical symptom assessment?
No. It records child-reported body-emotion associations and does not make medical or diagnostic interpretations.
Can the activity be completed without a visual map?
Yes. An accessible list mode can capture feeling, location, and sensation when visual marking is not appropriate.
What happens if the child gives a sensation without a location?
The tool keeps it as unmapped detail instead of discarding it or forcing a location.
Does every feeling or body area need to be completed?
No. Partial maps are supported, and the practitioner decides whether the information is useful.