Translating Affective Neuroscience into Clinical and Educational Practice : Body, Brain, and Emotions

This book is an accessible guide to understanding emotion through the lens of neuroscience. It provides a practical, developmentally informed framework with tools to translate affective neuroscience into everyday practice. The author introduces a neuroscience-informed model of emotion grounded in the body–brain connection, explaining the theory of affective neuroscience and including practical strategies for use in both therapeutic and educational settings. Drawing on foundational work by Panksepp, Damasio, Craig, and others, the book emphasizes how seven core emotional systems drive human behavior, development, and individual agency. Describing the development and application of the Affective Inventory, it provides clinician-facing steps and reflective exercises. Through clear explanations, engaging examples, and powerful clinical insights, this book reveals how our body and brain work together to shape feeling, behavior, and connection, helping readers navigate emotion with compassion, clarity, and confidence. Downloadable client handouts are provided for practitioners and educators. Translating Affective Neuroscience into Clinical and Educational Practice: Body, Brain, and Emotions will appeal to clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, school psychologists, therapists, and counselors, as well as graduate students of neuroscience and neuropsychology, and education professionals.