Try: Caregivers that can manage their emotions have an increased ability to manage conflict with the Care recipient (cr) one important aspect of managing emotions is knowing and understanding your own emotions the following are questions to help you assess your emotions as a caregiver do your emotions change frequently or do they have an even flow are your emotions accompanied by physical sensations that you experience in places like your stomach or chest do you experience discrete feelings and emotions such as anger sadness fear joy each of which is evident in subtle facial expressions can you experience intense feelings that are strong enough to capture both your attention and that of others do you focus on your emotions do they factor into your decision making information references adapted from www helpguide org

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Categories: Communication, Emotional Psychological

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Keywords: Emotion conflict resolution controlling emotions

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