Enhancing Caregiver Social Emotional Health

EMOTION EDUCATION

Dr. Ellen Abell

How do our emotions influence our behaviors?

Emotional Labor

Parenting - teaching children - being a

caregiver … is an emotional experience.

Burnout

Resilience

What are Emotions “Good For”?

Emotions are a form of information.

Emotional arousal is visible in our brains

Emotions and the Brain

What are Emotions “Good For”?

Emotions are messages to ourselves about our … values needs wants beliefs expectations goals

Self-awareness

Self-management

Social awareness

Relationship awareness

Core Social Emotional Competencies

www.casel.orgGoleman (2010), Emotional Intelligence

Self-Awareness Competencies

The ability to identify one’s feelings.

Physiological arousal

Emotion vocabulary

Self Awareness Competencies

The ability to identify one’s values and strengths.

The ability to maintain a well-grounded sense of self-confidence.

Self-Management Competencies

The ability to regulate one’s emotions.

To label feelings accurately

To know what one can

do with a feeling

Self-Management Competencies

The ability to express one’s emotions

appropriately.

Self-Management Competencies

The ability to control one’s impulses.

To know what one wants to accomplish in a given situation To act in accordance with one’s goals

Self-Management Competencies

The ability to persevere in addressing

challenges.

The ability to set goals and

monitor progress toward them.

Social Awareness Competencies

The ability to take the perspective of others.

The ability to empathize with others.

The ability to recognize and appreciate individual differences and similarities.

The ability to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships.

The ability to prevent, manage, and resolve interpersonal conflict.

The ability to resist inappropriate social pressure.

Relationship Management Competencies

Understanding and Protecting Your Emotional Health

Dr. Ellen Abell, Extension Specialist & Associate Professor

Protect Your Health

Health is About More than Your Body

Caregiving is an Emotional Experience

Emotions are a natural part of caring about people.

Emotional Literacy

Are you able to identify your feelings?

Your Brain in the Palm of your Hand

A Crayon Box of Feelings

A Healthy Emotional

Emotional Literacy Connects Us to Ourselves

Our emotions are messages to ourselves.