Making sense of emotion : innovating emotional intelligence / Frank John Ninivaggi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ninivaggi, Frank John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotional intelligence.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

Summary:

Children not shown tools to develop emotional intelligence fail emotionally and socially. Basic empathy skills are absent. In adult life, employment and occupational advancement are less likely. Making Sense of Emotion grasps the Yale integrative emotional intelligence ability model. Adding key missing elements, this book unlocks its potential to trigger "emotion performance utilization" in real life and real-time. The epidemic of overusing medications, substance use disorders, addiction, drug overdoses, even global "doping" in sports reflects emotional malaise. Emotional illiteracy is one underlying cause and demands innovative emotional intelligence. Written by a psychiatrist, this volume supplies literacy tools---a vivid action language showing how emotions unfold as personal dramas. Emotions are our first language---the mother tongue infants and children are "lived by." Emotional awareness is refined emotional intelligence. This book clearly defines emotions, feelings, affects, moods, and the social-emotional competencies needed to understand and build emotional awareness. Skills take shape resulting in unfolding self-attunement. In real-time, emotional intelligence is effective emotional performance. The missing link between the two is the application of emotion regulation in real life---knowledge in the head displayed in skilled everyday behavior. Innovative ideas in this book explain how to apply this emotional hygiene fitness program to benefit children and adults.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The study of emotions : clinical and scientific approaches

Why is emotional literacy relevant?

What are emotions? : what do they feel like?

Emotions are our first language : the neuroscience of emotions

High-reliability emotional well-being

Innovating emotions in childhood : emotional awareness and empathetic identification

Innovating emotions in adulthood : emotional literacy

High -reliability emotional well-being : skill literacy and skill performance

High-reliability emotional intelligence : emotion performance utilization

Bibliography

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4422-7589-8