Research Catalog

Title

The development of emotional competence / Carolyn Saarni ; foreword by Ross A. Thompson.

Author

Saarni, Carolyn.

Publication

New York : Guilford Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Description

xviii, 381 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Guilford series on social and emotional development

Uniform Title

Guilford series on social and emotional development.

Subject

• Emotional maturity
• Maturation (Psychology)
• Interpersonal relations
• Emotions
• Adaptation, Psychological
• Social Behavior
• Interpersonal Relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-368) and indexes.

Contents

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: The Capacity for Empathic Involvement -- 8. Skill 5: The Ability to Differentiate Internal Subjective Emotional Experience from External Emotional Expression -- 9. Skill 6: The Capacity for Adaptive Coping with Aversive Emotions and Distressing Circumstances -- 10. Skill 7: Awareness of Emotional Communication within Relationships -- 11. Skill 8: The Capacity for Emotional Self-Efficacy -- 12. Emotional Incompetence and Dysfunction.

ISBN

• 1572304332 (hard)
• 1572304340 (pbk)

LCCN

98039676

OCLC

ocm39655918

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries