• Question: Do use emotion works to help people

    Asked by anon-316011 on 14 Mar 2022. This question was also asked by anon-316012.
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      Jamie Chan answered on 14 Mar 2022:

      Hi! That’s a great question about emotions work, but I’m a social psychologist, which means that I don’t deliver treatments to people – those are clinical psychologists! Social psychologists study how people behave and why they behave that way.

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      Hannah Howman answered on 14 Mar 2022:

      Similar to Jamie, I work in an area of psychology that involves studying why people behave the way they do, rather than working with people and delivering treatments. However, part of my work is looking into people’s personalities to see how their personality traits may be enabling them to engage in certain online behaviours.

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      Reece Bush-Evans answered on 14 Mar 2022:

      Similar to Jamie and Hannah, this isn’t my area of psychology. However, I am aware that exploring emotions can be useful within different interventions and delivering treatments.

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      Nadine Mirza answered on 17 Mar 2022:

      I used to!

      I’ve worked in schools, hospitals and clinics where some of the work I did with both adults and children was helping them identify their emotions, and separating them from their thoughts and their behaviour. We would try to figure out and give names to the negative emotions they had and what caused them. We also came up with plans on what to do when a negative emotion started.

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      Sophie Callis answered on 18 Mar 2022:

      Most of what I do is working with emotions! I think Emotion Works is a specific set of tools which I haven’t used, but I think it’s so important to help people identify and communicate their emotions in helpful and constructive ways. We can’t control our emotions, but with practice and as we get older and our brains develop, we learn how to control what we do when we feel those emotions. For example, I can’t control whether I get angry, but I can control whether I choose to act out that anger by hitting and shouting, or whether I choose to take myself to a safe space and speak to someone I trust about how I’m feeling.

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      Michelle Newman answered on 23 Mar 2022:

      I don’t really know about Emotion Works I’m afraid. But we do use a lot of what we call psychoeducation – where we help people to understand about how the brain functions and what happens when it is injured.

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