Emotional competency is a set of skills that develop throughout life. Competent children tend to well adjusted with friends and get along well with others. Children need to abler to understand and label their own emotions. They need skills to tolerate and accept strong negative emotions. Although the skills that described the ability to understand, accept, tolerate, modify, and regulate emotions may seem simple, they are actually a complex set of competencies that must be mastered to an adequate degree if children are going to function well.
Why it matters?
There are strong associations between language competence and emotional competence. Children connect the labels for their feelings to their experiences. Emotions are abstract, which are make them harder to learn.
Emotions Have names
Emotional literacy is the ability to express feeling using the right specific words. Children need to recognise the emotions they and others experience and know that these emotions have names. A child receptive vocabulary is closely related to emotion knowledge, the ability to recognise facial expression, and awareness of more complex concepts such as mixed emotions. Children who easily use emotion language are also more successful socially than their peers.
The simple act of labelling emotions causes emotions to decrease in intensity (Lieberman et al., 2007)
Negative thinking
- Sadness
- Anger
- Shame
- Guilt
- Fear
- Anxiety
- Depressive symptoms
Positive emotions
- Happiness
- Calm
- Harmony
- Champion
- Beautiful
- Believe
- Divine
- Elegant
- Accepted
Emotions Are not Forever
- Regulations strategies help student get work done even though they may continue to feel somewhat stressed
- Practising mindfulness skills reduces the intensity of emotions , letting individuals recover from an intense emotional experience quickly and helping children to think beyond him/herself and focus on goal.
We can learn to control Emotions.
- Children learn strategies by watching how their parents and teachers manage emotions
- Children can use positive emotions as a strategy to regulate negative emotions
- Children who have experienced an upsetting event can generate positive emotions by recalling how they successful coped in the past by recalling positive experiences by thinking funny or engaging in an activity that is distracting or fun.
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