The Development of Emotional Competence

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-1-57230-434-5
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 381 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 601 g

Reihe: Guilford Series on Social and Emotional Development

Synthesizing the latest research and theory with compelling narratives and case vignettes, this book explores the development of emotional competence in school-age children and young adolescents. Saarni examines the formation of eight key emotional skills in relation to processes of self-understanding, socialization, and cognitive growth. The cultural and gender context of emotional experience is emphasized, and the role of moral disposition and other individual differences is considered. Tracing the connections between emotional competence, interpersonal relationships, and resilience in the face of stress, the book also explores why and what happens when development is delayed.

Zielgruppe

General, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saarni, Carolyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: What Is Emotional Competence?
1. The Inseparability of Emotional and Social Development
2. The Role of the Self in Emotional Competence
3. How We Become Emotionally Competent
4. Skill 1: Awareness of One's Own Emotions
5. Skill 2: The Ability to Discern and Understand Others' Emotions
6. Skill 3: The Ability to Use the Vocabulary of Emotion and Expression
7. Skill 4: Capacity for Empathic Involvement
8. Skill 5: The Ability to Differentiate Internal Subjective Emotional Experience from External Emotional Expression
9. Skill 6: Capacity for Adaptive Coping with Aversive Emotions and Distressing Circumstances
10. Skill 7: Awareness of Emotional Communication within Relationships
11. Skill 8: Capacity for Emotional Self-Efficacy
12. Emotional Incompetence and Dysfunction

Über Autor(innen)

Carolyn Saarni received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in developmental psychology. She began her academic career at New York University, but after a number of years returned to the West Coast. Since 1980, she has been on the faculty of the Department of Counseling at Sonoma State University in California, where she trains prospective marriage, family, child, and school counselors. Professor Saarni's research has focused on how children learn that they can adopt an emotional front, that is, what they express emotionally need not match what they really feel. She has also investigated how children use this knowledge strategically in their interpersonal relations with others as well as when coping with aversive feelings. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Spencer Foundation, among others. In addition to Lying and Deception in Everyday Life (with Dr. Michael Lewis), Dr. Saarni's other edited volumes include The Socialization of Emotion (also with Dr. Michael Lewis) and Children's Understanding of Emotion (with Dr. Paul L. Harris). She has also written numerous chapters and articles on children's emotional development. Dr. Saarni is a licensed clinical psychologist and is regularly consulted by the popular media on topics concerning emotional development in children and youth.