The Development of Emotional Competence

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