ELEVATED
THERAPY ANIMAL SUD SCALE FOR
CHILDREN
You might be interested in using my Animal SUD (Subjective
Unit of
Disturbance)
Scale with children when using
the "Energy Psychotherapies".
I use this because small children don't relate to numbers and
especially
in cases of severe trauma, the child might not be able to speak at all.
I use small pictures of the animals and explain to the child, for example, "The snake is when it`s the worst it can be, really bad" and "The butterfly is so light, it's not even there, you can't even feel it any more."
Instead of a SUDs rating, the child points to the pictures.
You can put pictures of the animals and the numbers on cardboard or
similar.
This is the standard "elevated" scale I use:
[0 Butterfly]
[1 Chicken]
[2 Dog]
[3 Cat]
[4 Rabbit]
[5 Horse]
[6 Cow]
[7 Elephant]
[8 Monkey]
[9 Bear]
[10 Snake]
Smaller children are better served with fewer "animal
representations"
because ten can be a bit much to remember.
Another suggestion on using this way of being able to talk to children
about the intensity of their feelings and emotions -
is to have them arrange the animals in their own idiosyncratic order
and to assign the emotional severity to each one as they think it
should
be done.
This allows for personal experiences to be taken into
consideration,
i.e. a child having been frightened by a dog
at one point or having a friendly pet snake at home, which would of
course change the relationship to the animal and
therefore the expression of emotion.
Copyright 1999 et al. Dr Michael G Millet of Elevated
Therapy
International ®
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