Bar-On, R., Maree, J. G., & Elias, M. J. (Eds.). (2007). Educating people to be emotionally intelligent. Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group.
Our primary purpose in publishing this work is to create a book that recognizes and reflects the rapidly growing global interest in scientifically based applications of emotional intelligence (EI) in education. Educators and parents, corporate coaches and trainers, health care and psychological service providers, academicians, researchers and students are all striving to learn more about applying EI in various educational settings in order to enhance individual performance as well as group efficacy and organizational productivity. This book is the first to bring together the work of such a wide range of scholars, theorists, researchers and practitioners, representing the main schools of EI, as well as the key approaches to social-emotional learning and closely related fields.
The first part of this book is represented by one chapter that asks if it is important to be emotionally intelligent and if people can be educated to be emotionally intelligent. The second part provides information on the development of emotional competence in children. The third part explores a wide array of approaches to educating children to be emotionally intelligent. The fourth part focuses on the adult version of this approach to education--in the form of EI training and coaching in the workplace. The fifth part represents the growing realization that counseling individuals with physical and psychological disturbances in the clinical setting can be heuristically conceptualized as another form of EI education. The sixth part provides a comprehensive description of EI assessment issues and tools. The final chapter comprises an integrative summary of the entire volume. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)