Make Emotions make Sense for ALL your students
Primary Prevention
Primary prevention not only gives adolescents the tools to manage and process their emotions but also creates a foundation that supports them at all levels of intervention. By understanding and applying these concepts early on, they are more likely to seek help at the secondary level, minimizing the likelihood of needing intensive tertiary intervention.
Primary Prevention
Primary prevention equips adolescents with foundational skills to recognize, understand, and process their emotions related to everyday challenges and more traumatic life events. Most adolescents will process their feelings with help of empathetic friends or family. While some adolescents may naturally intuit these skills others might have adopted misconceptions or unhelpful beliefs about emotions which can hinder their ability to process feelings effectively.
By providing structured primary prevention education, we ensure that all adolescents have access to a clear framework for emotional processing, resilience-building, and healthy coping strategies. This helps them develop a strong emotional foundation which can prevent the escalation of distress and promote well-being.
Secondary Prevention
Secondary prevention becomes more effective when adolescents have foundational knowledge from primary prevention. When they encounter difficult life events they are more likely to recognize if they need support beyond their friends and family. They may reach out their school counselors. The knowledge gained from primary prevention fosters a sense of safety and self-efficacy allowing them to take proactive steps toward managing their emotional distress before it intensifies. With this background they are also more likely to engage productively in support or counseling as they already understand the importance of working through difficult emotions rather than avoiding or suppressing them.
Without primary prevention adolescents may struggle to recognize when they need help or may feel uncertain about reaching out. This makes it more likely that they will wait until their distress becomes overwhelming and they will progress directly to tertiary prevention needs.
Tertiary Prevention
Tertiary prevention becomes necessary when adolescents’ emotional distress has escalated to the point of developing unhealthy coping strategies, or mental health challenges, such as depression, chronic anxiety, or rumination. At this stage their difficulties often become noticeable to friends, family members, or school staff. Unprocessed feelings may be buried deeply, sometimes without conscious awareness of their origins, often linked to childhood trauma or family dysfunction.
How are you Feeling? is more than a coping strategy that attempts to mitigate symptoms. It engages already very distressed students in a fun and engaging program that helps them understand they have a backstory that is influencing their current life and wellbeing. It helps them understand that their detrimental behaviours are actually their attempt to solve their problem of underlying pain and that there is a way to do this.
This foundational knowledge can help them approach healing with a sense of agency and optimism, recognizing that they have the tools and support to process and work through even deeply-rooted emotions.
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Watch your students grow emotionally
Learning is in the videos
With doors to open to explore concepts in depth
Comprehensive Teachers Guide
Flexible Delivery
Effective over 6, 12, 18 week durations
Episodes can be given as homework
Integrated Learning Management System (LMS)
Students will have a better understanding of why they react instead of responding.
A healthy emotional language is developed to discuss their feelings: acting-out, grieving, suppressing, processing, self-medicating…