The FAROS Sant Joan de Déu Observatory has presented the notebook "How to educate emotions: emotional intelligence in childhood and adolescence" which can become an indispensable tool for parents to understand how they have moved from emotional intelligence to emotional education, and the role that the family has in this field.
The coordinator of the publication is Rafael Bisquerra (Professor at the University of Barcelona) and among the authors is Eduard Punset, Elia López and Nieves Segovia. In fact, the team of authors are accredited specialists in different subjects such as Medicine, Social Education, Psychopedagogy or Biology, and many of them also work as teachers. You can consult the complete document here. The FAROS Observatory is the protaforma of health promotion and Child Welfare of the hospital Sant Joan de Déu (Barcelona). Its mission is to provide information and offer its knowledge to promote healthy values and habits. They always have the collaboration and review of hospital professionals and, therefore, guarantee the highest quality of the content they publish.
Going back to "how to educate emotions", it is designed to offer information and practical applications to families or educators, always putting the child or adolescent as a central point of interest.
In several chapters the situation of emotional education in the world is presented, and more specifically in the United States, in the United Kingdom and in Spain, which can be considered the countries where it is spreading more visibly.
The report ends with a decalogue of the most relevant aspects that appear throughout the work, as a summary, and bibliographic references with the intention of guiding the subsequent training of interested persons.
We hope that all this contributes to educate emotions and put emotional intelligence in childhood and adolescence to guarantee them a better state of health and well-being in the long term.
I invite you again to download the document from here, and enjoy reading it. You can also watch the video of the public presentation of the document.
