Puppets and Emotional Well-being: The Making of the Feel Your Best Self Toolkit

CSCH Director of Programs & Communications Helene Marcy interviews the creators of Feel Your Best Self, a toolkit that uses puppets to teach children strategies that promote emotional well-being.

Host: Helene Marcy, Director of Programs & Communications at the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Guests:

• Sandra Chafouleas, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in UConn’s Department of Educational Psychology in the UConn Neag School of Education and Co-Director of the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health
• Emily Wicks, Co-Interim Director of the UConn Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
• Emily Iovino, Postdoctoral Scholar at the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health and the Neag School of Education in the Department of Educational Psychology.

Resources

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Feel Your Best Self

UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

UConn Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry

UConn Neag School of Education

UConn School of Fine Arts

Social Media Links

Feel Your Best Self on Facebook

Feel Your Best Self on Twitter

Feel Your Best Self on Instagram

Feel Your Best Self on Pinterest

@UConnCSCH on Twitter

@UConnCSCH on Facebook

Ballard on Twitter

Ballard on Facebook

Produced, directed and edited by Helene Marcy.

This recording has been made available for informational and educational purposes only.

Puppets and Emotional Well-being: The Making of the Feel Your Best Self Toolkit was created by the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health and recorded in November 2022.

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