The Development of Emotional Competence in Young Children

Susanne A. Denham, PhD, is Emeritus University Professor of Psychology at George Mason University. She is an applied developmental psychologist with particular expertise in children's social and emotional development. Dr. Denham has conducted extensive research on emotional competence, especially in preschoolers--how it influences children’s social and academic functioning, its assessment, and how parents and teachers foster it. Before joining the faculty of George Mason University in 1985, Dr. Denham worked as a school psychologist for 11 years. She is editor of the journal Early Education and Development and past coeditor of Social Development.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Emotional Expressiveness: Basic Emotions and Empathy
3. Emotional Expressiveness: Social Emotions and Voluntary Emotional Control
4. Developing Knowledge of Emotions and Regulation
5. More Advanced Emotion Knowledge During Preschool
6. Emotion Regulation
7. Socialization of Emotional Competence and Impact on Preschoolers’ Expressiveness
8. Socialization of Preschoolers’ Emotion Knowledge and Emotion Regulation
9. Teachers’ Emotion Socialization of Preschoolers’ Emotional Competence
10. Contributions of Emotional Expressiveness, Emotion Knowledge, and Emotion Regulation to Preschoolers’ Social Competence
11. Contributions of Emotional Expressiveness, Emotion Knowledge, and Emotion Regulation to Early School Success
12. Disruptions in the Development of Emotional Competence
13. Educating for Emotional Competence
14. Concluding Remarks
References
Author Index
Subject Index
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