Emotional disorders are psychological conditions that affect how a person manages and experiences their emotions. They can range in seriousness (from occasional sadness and anxiety to depression and bipolar disorder) and have a significant impact on a person’s quality of life.

Emotional Disorders: What to Do and What to Avoid is a practical guide that offers secondary school teachers simple strategies to use in the classroom to successfully deal with 15 problematic behaviors that are typical of emotional disorders, suggesting how to act and how not to.

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BOOK STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS

The volume groups the typical problems of emotional disorders into three sections:

• Fear and anxiety
• Rage and anger
• Sadness and depression

WHAT TO DO AND WHAT TO AVOID

At the beginning of each chapter, a drawing introduces the analysed behaviour.

• Explanations of the problem behaviour being considered: Why does he/she do this?
• Brief and simple indications that can be useful to the teacher as a reference point for quickly deciding What to do and reflect on What to avoid.

• A more in-depth description of the specific problem behaviourbeing worked on: Analysis of the problem behaviour.
• The tools and educational strategies to create the intervention: How to intervene.

Each chapter closes with The expert advice: reflections to further understand and enrich the teacher’s “briefcase of educational tools”.

Leaf through some pages of volume which have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation of the product.

THE AUTHOR

Francesca Mencaroni
psychologist and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist for adults and childhood. She specializes in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder, parenting, and managing emotional disorders in childhood and adolescence as well as training teachers on social-emotional education.

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