Use pretend play to practice feeling labeling . Label the feelings of people and animals in picture books. Use magazines, school yearbooks, and TV shows to guess about the feelings of characters . Then connect their feelings to his own. Talk about similarities and differences between your client's feelings and those of his friends and media figures.
Role play various feelings .
One technique is to audiotape or videotape the client expressing one feeling at a time. Prepare a feeling list together and then ask the client to express each feeling through body language and words. The tape can then be reviewed slowly and repeatedly, with the client self-observing and practicing new behaviors. Use feeling face drawings. You can make your own by drawing blank faces on a page, and reproducing the page for the client to draw in the features and add the feeling label.