What patterns or cycles are apparent

What patterns or cycles are apparent? Are there times of the day or week when you are more likely to feel particular emotions?

How could you have altered your emotions (e.g., to increase pleasurable feelings and decrease negative feelings)?

What have you learned about yourself from this exercise that will assist you in your work as a counselor?

Some people suggest that if you empathize with people who have committed horrible offenses such as crimes against children you condone their behavior. How might you respond to these assertions?

Recall the 10 families of emotions: 

anger,

fear,

strength,

weakness,

joy,

sadness,

confusion,

shame,

surprise, and

love.

Predict and describe the possible emotions that different individuals in the following scenarios might experience. What nonverbal cues might you observe in each case?

a.   man, whose wife of 60 years has just died

b.   a young teenager on a first date

c.   middle-aged man fired from his job

d.   The 20-year-old man was told by his doctor that he has schizophrenia

e.   mother discovering her teenage daughter using drugs

f.    a woman subjected to online harassment

g.   a person who lost his life savings in the stock market

additional comments: suicidal gestures, withdrawal, self-deprecating comments 

h.   prisoner about to be sentenced

i.    angry client

j.    a client seeing a counselor for the first (or last) time

k.   patient in hospital waiting for major surgery

l.    child entering a foster home

m. man who has just abused his wife

n.   couple on the day of their marriage

o.   an immigrant who has left his wife and children at home while he settles

p.   serial killer

q.   compulsive gambler after a big win or after losing his paycheque

r. The 11-year-old girl has been sexually abused by her father

s.    man who has sexually abused his daughter