Includes bibliographical references and index.

How important is it to educate people to be emotionally intelligent, and can it be done? / Reuven Bar-On -- The development of emotional competence : pathways for helping children to become emotionally intelligent / Carolyn Saarni -- Emotionally intelligent parenting / Robin Stern and Maurice J. Elias -- School-family partnerships to enhance children's social, emotional and academic learning / Evanthia N. Patrikakou and Roger P. Weissberg -- The social, emotional and academic education of children : theories, goals, methods and assessments / Jonathan Cohen and Sandra V. Sandy -- School practices to build social-emotional competence as the foundation of academic and life success / Joseph E. Zins, Maurice J. Elias and Mark T. Greenberg -- The comer school development program : a pioneering approach to improving social, emotional and academic competence / Norris M. Haynes -- The self-science approach to social-emotional learning / Karen McCown, Anabel L. Jensen and Joshua Freedman -- Creating an emotionally intelligent school district : a skill-based approach / Marc A. Brackett ... [et al.] -- First steps in developing a community-based teacher training program designed to educate children to be emotionally intelligent / Jacobus G. Maree and Queen Esther M. Mokhuane -- Developing emotional intelligence through coaching for leadership, professional and occupational excellence / Richard E. Boyatzis -- The practice of emotional intelligence coaching in organizations : a hands-on guide to successful outcomes / Charles J. Wolfe -- Coaching executives to enhance emotional intelligence and increase productivity / Geetu Bharwaney -- Emotional competence development and the bottom line : lessons from American Express financial advisors / Douglas Lennick -- Applying emotional intelligence in understanding and treating physical and psychological disorders : what we have learned from alexithymia / Graeme J. Taylor and Helen L. Taylor-Allan -- Applying emotional intelligence in treating individuals with severe psychiatric disorders : a psychotherapeutic model for educating people to be emotionally intelligent / Lana Stohl ... [et al.] -- Assessing emotional intelligence in children : a review of existing measures of emotional and social competence / Sarah Stewart-Brown and Laurel Edmunds -- Assessing emotional intelligence in adults : a review of the most popular measures / David L. Van Rooy and Chockalingam Viswesvaran -- The anatomy of emotional intelligence and implications for educating people to be emotionally intelligent / Antoine Bechara, Antonio R. Damasio and Reuven Bar-On -- Integrative summary / Peter Salovey.