Understanding your feelings (for teenagers only!)
- Preteen to Teenager
- English
- Modules
- Voiceover
- Course Modules
1.1 Hi!
1.2 Our brain is changing
1.3 How our brain changes affect us
1.4 How is my brain changing?
1.5 Our brain and our feelings
1.6 So far and what's next
2.1 Understanding our feelings
2.2 How we know we're happy
2.3 How we know we're sad
2.4 How we know we're tired
2.5 How we know we're anxious
2.6 Other people's feelings and our brain
2.7 Our feelings
3.1 What do people do with feelings?
3.2 Lock them in a cupboard
3.3 Trying to feel in control
3.4 Ignore them
3.5 Process them
4.1 What's next
4.2 Feeling worse
4.3 Feeling better
4.4 Containment: the basics
4.5 Containment: learning more
4.6 And more
4.7 What can happen when your head's full
4.8 Making space in our mind
5.1 What can fill up your head?
5.2 Thoughts and feelings
5.3 Our feelings affect our thoughts
5.4 Our thoughts affect our feelings
6.1 The pandemic
6.2 Anything you liked?
6.3 How did COVID affect you?
6.4 Relationships
6.5 Rupture
6.6 Rupture and repair
6.7 Ruptures and repair in everyday life
6.8 COVID and you
7.1 Our brain and our feelings
7.2 Recognising feelings
7.3 If emotions feel overwhelming
7.4 Processing feelings
7.5 Trying to do things differently
7.6 More about trying to do things differently
8.1 Conclusion
8.2 Congratulations and feedback questionnaire!
8.3 Acknowledgements and certificate
About this course
Your teenage brain will go through a cycle of rapid growth during puberty. Remarkably, this affects how you feel and behave. This course is a great place to start if you want to learn about your emotional health, why you feel the way you do, and how to manage these feelings.
Understanding your feelings – for teenagers is for all teenagers who wish to understand their own development and emotional wellbeing. The resources are tailored so that whatever your age, you can use the ideas and techniques to help better understand how to look after yourself as you grow and transition to adulthood.
Understanding your feelings – for teenagers has been developed by a team of Clinical Psychologists, Child Psychotherapists, and Child and Family Practitioners. Everything you will follow and learn in the course has been informed by experience and is designed to be practical to help you in your everyday interactions. You’ll also learn about how the teenage brain functions compared to an adult, how and why your feelings might change, how to connect and communicate your feelings in relationships and how to process difficult feelings.
The course follows 8 Modules, each taking around 20 minutes and broken up into manageable chunks called Units.
The first few Modules cover some ways of thinking and concepts that will help shape the approaches and ideas around the later sections, so this means it needs to be followed in order, one Module at a time. You don’t need to do it all in one go, and our advice is to take breaks and spread out your learning.
Understanding your feelings – for teenagers is designed for all teenagers in any situation, but you might find that perhaps you begin to feel you would benefit from more personalised or specialist support, so there are some additional resources signposted throughout to guide you.
We know that there are many different families, with different backgrounds, shapes and sizes. We have tried to consider some of the different needs of families in this course, but it hasn’t been possible to account for all backgrounds. If your personal situation isn’t reflected, we still hope that you find something helpful in the main ideas about developing close, connected relationships between parents and children and welcome your feedback to improve its relevance.