Teaching Emotional and Social Skills

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The paper presents an extensive review of the literature on emotional and social intelligence theories, assessment and application. This paper stresses that all the problems of why children fail, despite demonstrating good intelligence, can be resolved if the emphasis is placed on educating the whole child.

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Theories of Emotional Intelligence
Learning Inhibitors
Personal Social and Health Education: PSHE
Future Directions

From the Paper:

"Poor communication skills put children at risk of overall poor relationships with their peers which lead to more and more social and emotional problems, which in turn are likely to lead to intellectual problems. These, of course, in their turn, will make it more and more difficult for the child to acquire needed communication skills. As Lawrence (1988) argues, this is a cycle that must be, for the sake of the affected child, interrupted as quickly as possible."

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