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OBJECTIVES:
These supplemental modules and guidance notes were developed with
the following objectives in mind:
For the users:
1. to provide teachers and non-teaching staff with a quick reference and
guide regarding the proper conduct of PFA when delivered either
online or through self-guided modules.
2. to equip teachers with additional skills needed in the delivery of online
PFA and PFA through self-guided modules.
3. to further develop the competence of the users in delivering PFA using
other platforms.
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For the students:

4. to provide students with a venue by which they can discuss
their fears, feelings, and anxieties.
5. to enable students to manage their feelings and reframe their
thoughts.
6. to empower students to look for linkages to services that could
help others
7. to allow students to focus on their strengths and support
systems during a fearful and worrisome time.

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In other words, these supplemental modules serve

to support, empower and enable teachers to help
students to move beyond the worries and fears
brought about by the pandemic and help them
become more active members of the community.
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MODULE 1 – VALIDATING
FEELINGS AND NORMALIZING
REACTIONS
Objectives

• Identify feelings/reactions related to the

pandemic/any form of disaster
• Accept that all feelings and reactions are normal
and valid
KUMUSTA KA?
Activity: GRAPHING FEELINGS

• Using a sheet of paper, create a graph or a pie

chart of feelings/emotions that you have or may
have had during all the crisis situations that you
experienced.
• On the x-axis, write down each of the
feelings/emotions.
• On y-axis, write the numbers 25,50,75,100 to
represent the percentage of time that you were
feeling that way.
• Rate each emotion/feeling based on how much or
how often would you feel that way over the past
few months/week/days.
Common Reactions of Students to stressful Events
• feel a strong responsibility to the family.
• feel anxious brought about by uncertainty of the future.
• feel intense or prolonged grief for not being able to wake.
• may become self-absorbed and feel self-pity.
• may experience changes in their relationships with other
people.
• may also start taking risks, engage in self-destructive
behavior, have avoidant behavior, and become aggressive.
• may experience major shifts in their view of the world
accompanied by a sense of hopelessness about the present
and the future.
• may become defiant of authorities and parents while they
start relying on peers for socializing through social media.
• may feel guilty and anxious having been separated from
their loved ones due to lockdown.
TAKE NOTE: Our reactions to the
pandemic, to any stressful event,
disaster are normal and valid.

How can you apply this

learning to your life especially
because the pandemic is not
yet over?
TAKE HOME

Habang ginagawa ang “Butterfly

Hug”, sabihin ang mga katagang ito
sa iyong sarili o sa iyong kaibigan:

RAMDAM kita.
DINIG kita.
NAUUNAWAAN kita.