Life skills

Award-Winning Emotional ABCs Now Online

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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Life skills

LOS ANGELES, May 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Today, Emotional ABCs, America's Most Awarded Emotional Skills Program, launches its online curriculum.

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  • LOS ANGELES, May 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Today, Emotional ABCs, America's Most Awarded Emotional Skills Program, launches its online curriculum.
  • Emotional ABCs combines therapists' best techniques for working through emotions with a child-friendly, hands-on format.
  • "Emotional ABCs fills an unmet need in the educational market.
  • "Emotional ABCs is a sequential framework for young children to develop skills in three major areas of Social Emotional Learning: Self-Awareness, Self-Managementand Responsible Decision-Making."

Advocates Gather in Harrisburg for Social and Emotional Learning Conference

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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Neuropsychology, Psychology, Neuroscience, Educational psychology, Life skills, Cognitive neuroscience, Emotions, Empathy, Psychopathy, SEL, Learning, Draft:Social emotional learning

HARRISBURG, Pa., May 9, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --More than 500 educators, national experts and youth advocates will participate in the 2018 Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Conference May 9-10 in Harrisburg.

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  • HARRISBURG, Pa., May 9, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --More than 500 educators, national experts and youth advocates will participate in the 2018 Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Conference May 9-10 in Harrisburg.
  • Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) refers to a student's ability to manage and express emotions appropriately, show empathy for others, have positive relationships and make good decisions.
  • Several hundred studies have documented that well-planned and well-implemented SEL programming can positively impact a broad range of student social, health, behavioral and academic outcomes.
  • Sessions will also focus on ways afterschool and summer learning programs around the country are working to help develop critical social, emotional and workforce readiness skills in youth every day.

The Multiplicity of Empathy: Study Reveals Both Interpersonal & Intrapersonal Benefits of Being Empathetic

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Saturday, March 31, 2018
Life skills, Psychology, Neuroscience, Interpersonal relationships, Emotions, Cognitive neuroscience, Empathy, Psychopathy, Emotional Intelligence, Behavioural sciences, Skill

A study by PsychTests.com reveals that empathetic people are not only more skilled at dealing with people, they are also more resilient and have better self-esteem.

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  • Helping a stranger, getting along with peers and colleagues, saving an animal, and compromising with an adversary all require empathy.
  • After collecting data from 9,234 people who took PsychTests Emotional Intelligence Test, researchers compared the scores of empathetic and non-empathetic on various interpersonal (dealing with others) and intrapersonal (dealing with self) competencies.
  • And chances are that empathetic people are more likely to have good emotional intelligence in general, and the benefits of EQ are numerous.
  • The companys research division, Plumeus Inc., is supported in part by Research and Development Tax Credit awarded by Industry Canada.