In group sessions with young adolescents affected by distress or adversity, workbook ease-(november-30) gives facilitators and teens a simple place to record feelings, body sensations and home practice tasks. It is designed to be used alongside the Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions intervention manual, with pages that can be printed on A4 and kept in a loose binder.
The early pages introduce Week 1, Understanding My Feelings, including a feelings chart poster showing different emotional expressions and a large feelings pot for use in session 1. The home practice pages then ask adolescents to fill in one feelings pot each day, offering a clear, visual way to notice and name emotions across the week.
Week 2 focuses on Calming My Body and introduces a body map poster. The home practice combines the feelings pot with a body outline, asking the young person to choose the strongest feeling of the day and draw what was happening in their body when they felt it. That structure can help teenagers connect emotions with physical signs such as tension, heaviness, restlessness or changes in breathing.
The format is especially suited to EASE facilitators, child and adolescent mental health workers, school counsellors, psychosocial support staff and practitioners running structured group work with early adolescents. Because the activities rely on drawing and simple prompts, they may also be useful where young people find long written reflection difficult or where literacy levels vary within a group.
The workbook’s practical value lies in its consistency: each page gives a repeatable task that can be revisited in sessions, at home or during follow-up conversations with a trusted adult. The visible publication details identify it as part of the Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions programme from the World Health Organization and UNICEF.
