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Emotional Vocabulary: Moving beyond “Mad, Sad, and Glad”

• Frontiers in Education, Joseph et al. / 2025: Emotional Literacy as Curriculum: A New Paradigm for Resilient Classrooms
• Parenting Mojo, Research Team / 2025: How to Teach Emotional Awareness and Vocabulary to Boys

Processing Anger: Regulating the “Secondary Emotion”

• Scientific Reports, Meta-Analysis Team / 2025: Anger and Emotion Regulation Strategies: A Meta-Analysis
• American Psychological Association (APA), Webster-Stratton & Abrams / 2025: Helping Kids Cope with Anger and Frustration

Deconstructing Stigma: “Normative Male Alexithymia”

• National Institutes of Health (PMC), Systematic Review / 2025: The Impact of Traditional Masculinity Norms on Men's Willingness to Seek Support
• University of Oregon, Scholars' Bank / 2025: Review of Normative Male Alexithymia Literature

Building Empathy: The “Teachable Skill”

• University of Cambridge, Webb et al. / 2024: Teaching Empathy Impacts Behaviour and Tolerance in Boys
• Psychology Today, Lambert / 2024: Raising Boys to Experience Empathy: The Kliff/Vida Longitudinal Study

Mental Health Awareness: Identifying Alexithymia

• NIH / PMC, Longitudinal Study / 2025: How Alexithymia Increases Mental Health Symptoms in Adolescence
• Frontiers in Psychology, Meta-Analysis / 2025: The Effect of Alexithymia on Depression Severity