1. The Inseparability of Emotional and Social Development

2. The Role of the Self in Emotional Competence

3. How We Become Emotionally Competent

4. Skill 1: Awareness of One's Own Emotions

5. Skill 2: The Ability to Discern and Understand Others' Emotions

6. Skill 3: The Ability to Use the Vocabulary of Emotion and Expression

7. Skill 4: Capacity for Empathic Involvement

8. Skill 5: The Ability to Differentiate Internal Subjective Emotional Experience from External Emotional Expression

9. Skill 6: Capacity for Adaptive Coping with Aversive Emotions and Distressing Circumstances

10. Skill 7: Awareness of Emotional Communication within Relationships

11. Skill 8: Capacity for Emotional Self-Efficacy

12. Emotional Incompetence and Dysfunction