New Environment, New Friends: How Social and Emotional Learning Can Help
Whether you’re starting at a new university or a new job, making friends can be an exciting but daunting task. As nerve wracking as it may be, forming positive relationships with peers is crucial for our well-being.
Promoting SEL in Schools to Support Student Success
Many of our other blog posts detail the core competencies of SEL, which can be encouraged across different areas of a child’s life. This post will be focusing on supporting these skills in a key environment for children: school!
Distinguishing Shame from Guilt: Implications and Limitations
It is easy for people to confuse shame and guilt as the two emotions share many common features and are often experienced simultaneously. Both shame and guilt require a mental representation of the self to be compared with a set of rules and standards internalized from family and culture, and both are linked to the capacity for moral reasoning and behavior.