1.2 From Emotions and Feelings to Socio-emotional Skills

Emotions have a fundamental role at the evolutionary level, they serve to protect us, to recognize dangers and to defend us from them. It is necessary for the teacher and parent to build some basic knowledge on emotions and feelings in the first place. This basic understanding is necessary to be able to communicate and understand children in a better way, to understand what triggers their responses to external and internal stimuli and to be able to support them and guide them in a better way in the process of understanding and managing their own reactions and social interactions with other people around them.