Emotion and Stress Regulation

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Emotion and Stress Regulation Magic Tool Box

Designed for teachers and parents, this helpful workbook is filled with evidenced based activities like games, stretches, meditations, and more to promote emotion knowledge, regulation, stress management, emotion engagement and behavior management in children and those caring for them. The activities were developed, tested, curated, and compiled into this book by a team that includes Dr. Colleen O’Neal from the School Psychology program in the College of Education.

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About the Emotions, Equity and Education Lab

Our faculty and researchers collaborate with educators and communities to improve socioemotional learning, literacy, and achievement for all students. We are interested in constructs like stress, mental health, grit (persistence), emotion regulation, and motivation. Our work engages a diverse group of students from local schools as we examine socioemotional supports that make students successful in literacy and achievement.

To learn more about us and view our work, visit our website.

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Colleen O'Neal

Colleen R. O'Neal is lab director of the Emotions, Equity, and Education Lab and assistant professor of School Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Maryland, College Park (Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education).

Her primary research goals are to identify risk and resilience processes among minority students with a focus on emotions and stress. She conducts research asking: (1) HOW stress impacts ethnic minority student mental health and academic functioning, (2) WHAT socioemotional learning (e.g., emotion engagement), motivation (e.g., grit), emotion regulation and relationship-based protective factors prevent the negative impact of stress on academic functioning, and (3) WHO is most vulnerable to stress.

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