The How Does Emotion Affect Your Life? worksheet encourages clients to reflect on the role and impact of emotions in their lives.
Offers theory, guidance, and prompts for mental health professionals. Downloads are in Fillable PDF format where appropriate.
Includes client-friendly guidance. Downloads are in Fillable PDF format where appropriate.
An editable Microsoft PowerPoint version of the resource.
Emotions are a fundamental part of being human. Everyone experiences a wide range of emotions in response to changes in their thoughts, biology, and the situations they encounter. These feelings prepare us for action, indicate what is important to us, and facilitate our ability to empathize with others.
Encouraging your clients to reflect on the role of emotions in their lives can help them discuss current challenges. The How Does Emotion Affect Your Life? worksheet is designed for use during the assessment phase of therapy or for clients considering therapy. It can be assigned as a task between sessions to prompt client reflections or completed during an assessment session to help clients explore the role of their emotions.
Emotions are often an important focus in therapy. This resource can be used to:
Individuals experiencing persistent low mood.
Individuals who use food to dampen or suppress difficult emotions.
Individuals who struggle to regulate certain emotions.
Encourage clients to reflect on the questions in the resource.
Use responses as a basis for discussions during sessions.
Set actionable goals or agree treatment directions based on the worksheet insights.
The How Does Emotion Affect Your Life? worksheet is a useful way of encouraging clients to reflect upon the role of emotions in their life and upon their current difficulties. It has questions which encourage reflection about client values (“what matters to me irrespective of how I am feeling?”) and behavior (“what would I be doing if I was living in a way that was true to me?”). Therapists will find it to be a helpful tool as part of a comprehensive psychological assessment.
