Making Sense of Emotion : Innovating Emotional Intelligence.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Emotions as Our Mother Tongue -- New Innovations to Emotional Intelligence -- Why Is a Fresh Assessment of Emotions Relevant at the Present Moment? -- Innovating Emotional Intelligence: The Clinical Perspective -- Innovating Emotional Intelligence: Data for a Clinical Redesign -- Making Sense of Emotion: Emotional Awareness as Emotion Performance Utilization for All -- Part I: Emotional Intelligence: Theory and Emotion in Real Life -- 1 The Study of Emotions -- The Clinical Approach to Studying Emotions -- Subjective Experience: The Objective Living Example of Emotions in Real Time -- The Academic Approach to Studying Emotions -- An Overview of the Study of Emotions -- Emotional Literacy: The Refinement of Emotional Intelligence -- The "Making Sense of Emotion" Model -- Conjectures Regarding Substance Use Disorders and Mood Dysregulation -- Part II: Emotional Hygiene: Emotional Awareness and Emotional Literacy -- 2 Innovating Positive Emotionality -- Emotional Literacy -- Emotional Literacy: The Competent Person -- Optimizing Positive Emotionality by Emotional Literacy -- Intelligent Emotionality Speaks Only One "Mother Tongue" -- Emotional Hygiene: Toning Emotional Fitness in the Mind's Gym -- Self-Awareness: Innovating Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Literacy by Self-reflection -- Health, Well-being, and Emotional Literacy -- Innovating Emotional Intelligence: New Contributions -- The Core of Conscious Emotion Regulation: Nonconscious Emotional Modulation -- Emotional Literacy Is Refined Emotional Intelligence -- Innovating Healthy Emotionality: Its Platforms of Forgiveness and Empathy -- Conscience and Empathy -- Empathy -- Perspective Taking, Empathetic Identification, and Envy -- Measuring Healthy Emotions -- Emotional Competence -- Emotional Self-regulation.

Social Competence -- Impulse Control Self-regulation -- General Self-regulation -- Innovating Emotional Intelligence -- 3 What Are Emotions? What Do They Feel Like? -- What Is Emotion? -- Trajectory of Emotional Processing and Expression: A Summary -- Emotional Hygiene -- Elementary Emotions Contrasted with Emotional States of Mind -- Distinguishing Anxiety, Depression, Pain, and Suffering from Other Feelings -- Emotions and Emotional Intelligence -- Emotional Processing -- What Is Emotion Sensation? -- The Primacy of Emotion Sensation -- Emotions: Their Binary Valence and Threat Detection Function -- A Primer of Emotional Literacy: The Refinement of Emotional Intelligence -- Primary Emotions: Descriptions of How They Feel -- Emotional States of Mind or Feelings -- Positive Feeling States of Mind -- Feelings with Privileged Status: Loss, Envy, Greed, Jealousy, and Guilt -- Negative Emotionality Can Refine Positive Emotionality and Enhance Well-being -- A View of Emotional Development -- Our Adult World and Its Roots in Infancy -- 4 Emotions Are Our First Language -- Emotions as a Second Language-Or Should They Be Our First? -- Emotional Literacy: A Forgotten First Language to Be Remembered -- How Irrational Is Our True First Language, Emotions? -- What Do Emotions Look Like to the Naked Eye? -- Temperament, Personality, and Character Contain Elements of Emotion -- Critical Thinking Counts -- Executive Functions Assemblage -- Enter Insight: The Subliminal Side of Outsight -- The Neurobiology of Emotion -- Subcortex Deep Brain Structures -- Neocortex -- Neurocircuitry of Social Processing -- Emotions Are Our First Language -- Part III: High-Reliability Emotional Well-being -- 5 Innovating Emotions in Childhood -- Emotional Hygiene -- Empathetic Identification -- Transactional Sensitivity and Empathy: Keys to Empathetic Identification.

Parental Example: The Premier Action Verb -- The Family: A Child's Micro-Culture of Living Example -- Parenting -- Love: The Emotional Tone Enhancing Success -- Infancy and Early Childhood: Synopsis of Developmental Theory -- You Are Your Child's "First Verb": Parent as Premier Performance Model -- "First Verb" Parenting: Facilitating Learning -- Facilitating Motivation -- Facilitating Ability -- Teaching Emotional Modulation: Refining Emotion Performance Utilization -- The Development of Emotional Learning in Infancy and the Preschool Years -- Facilitating Emotional Learning in the Preschool Years -- The Elementary School Years: Living Example in the Elementary School Years -- The Adolescent Years -- Preparing for Adulthood: Emotional Development and Personality Consolidation -- Adolescents and Mental Health -- First Verb Parenting: What to Do with This Tool -- What Is Accountability and Why Is It So Important? -- The Roots of Adult Competence in Childhood Emotional Competence -- 6 Innovating Emotions in Adulthood -- Emotional Hygiene: A Design for Living -- Emotional Knowing Enriches Comprehension and Solidifies Performance -- Occupational Burnout: Job Exhaustion, Cynicism, and Unhappy Inefficacy -- Considering an Alternative: Life as a Self-made and Meaningful Adventure -- Values: Implicit Roots of Emotions and Feelings -- An Effective Plan for Strategic Change -- Plan the Work, then Work the Plan: Assigning Values to the Five Levels of Significance -- Creating a Lifestyle Is a Self-made Adventure -- In Defense of the Self! -- Innovating Emotions as an Adult Behavior -- Self-coherence: The Consolidation of Emotional Literacy -- 7 High-reliability EmotionalWell-being -- Well-being -- Insight into High-reliability Well-being -- Happiness as an Activity of Daily Living -- Forgiveness and Empathy Enhance Well-being -- The Healthy Maturation of Envy.

Envy Management Skills Are Empathy Performance Skills -- Aesthetics as Part of Envy Management Skills -- Creativity and the Healthy Maturation of Envy -- Creativeness: The Ultimate Sense of Envy's Healthy Maturation -- Character: High-Performance Emotional Competency -- Outsight and Insight: High-reliability Perspectives on Character -- High Character Is Emotion Performance Utilization in Action -- 8 High-reliability Emotional Intelligence -- Making Sense of Emotion -- Innovating Emotional Intelligence -- Emotional Modulation: The Core Ability in Emotional Intelligence -- The Primacy of Emotion -- High-reliability Emotional Well-being -- Self-leadership Is High-reliability Success -- The Healthy Maturation of Envy -- Envy Transforming to Empathy and Gratitude -- Lived Empathy: The Performance of the Healthy Maturation of Envy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Emotions often get in the way of our functioning or understanding a situation. This book helps readers better understand emotions, as they learn to perceive, recognize, identify, and adapt their emotional reserves to increase well-being and happiness. Parents will also learn how to teach emotional fitness to developing children.

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