Dysregulation - tips to deal with emotional students

What Is Dysregulation?

Dysregulation, also known as emotional dysregulation, refers to a poor ability to manage emotional responses or to keep them within an acceptable range of typical emotional reactions. This can refer to a wide range of emotions including sadness, anger, irritability, and frustration.

For Communicating When a Student Is Dysregulated........Say the phrases that follow genuinely and without sarcasm.

• This could be difficult for you; what can you do to help yourself?

• I’m not mad; breathe.

• Let’s pretend to smell the soup and blow on the soup.

• This feeling will pass. I’ll stay with you until it does.

• We’ll get through this together.

• How can I help? Do you want to walk with me now or in a few minutes?

• Be gentle. No hurts.

• Everybody needs to be safe.

• How does your body want to move?

• I’ll help you do that slowly and safely.

• Let’s pretend to try to move this wall together.

• What calming strategy do you want to try right now?

• Use your words.

• Give me a whole sentence please, kiddo.

• Kind words and actions, please.

• Let me see your eyes

Taken from the next section of the book that we have been covering : https://www.myteachersfiji.com/post/for-communicating-empathy-back-pocket-words-and-phrases-2