What It Captures
The activity captures child-reported feeling words, optional situation or internal-experience links, and unclear or skipped emotions.
Feelings Identification for Trauma-Focused Child Therapy
Feelings Identification is an emotion identification activity for trauma-focused child therapy. Practitioners use it to help a child notice, name, and communicate emotional experiences so later coping and processing work can reflect the child's actual feeling vocabulary.
Try the activity with fictional feelings and example situations.
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Tool guide
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Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
Practitioner And Child Roles
The practitioner assigns or completes the activity and reviews the result. The child supplies emotion labels and examples in their own language.
Relevant Limitations
The tool does not provide symptom severity ratings, diagnoses, mandated emotion categories, or unsupported emotion taxonomies.
Can Feelings Identification be sent to a child?
Yes. Completion mode may be ready-to-send or completed together, and both modes produce a recognition profile for practitioner review.
Does the tool include a fixed emotion-word list?
Not by default. Exact feeling vocabulary is unresolved, so the demo should use supported or practitioner-provided labels.
What if a child skips feelings?
Skipped or unclear feelings remain visible in the profile so the practitioner can decide whether to clarify them later.
Does the tool measure mood over time?
No. It identifies emotional vocabulary and recognition, not mood tracking or symptom severity.