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Teaching emotional granularity: Affect Scale

(A simple tool for younger children)

Helping a person notice and describe feelings precisely is the first step to successful self-regulation
It also helps people to work out what helps them to feel good, predict needs and ‘Prep4Best’.

unpleasant feeling Big pleasant feeling

Big unpleasant feeling Big pleasant feeling

Developed for young people by K Messenger,, based the work of Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett