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The US and Europe have turned their gaze towards a new paradigm: emotional
learning, looking for various ways to implement training on emotional intelligence in
both educational and healthcare settings. It has been repeatedly proven that recognizing
your own emotions, giving them a name, and finding strategies to manage them
improves prosocial behavior, optimizes work and academic performance, and eases
close relationships, resulting in good levels of personal well-being.

In his book Triple Focus , Daniel Goleman explains how Social and Emotional Learning
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programs, known by the acronym SEL, have been implemented in schools around the
world and used as responses to dangers rooted in young societies such as bullying,
drugs, violence, or poor attendance.

In a study of 270,000 students which compared schools with emotional intelligence
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programs to those without, results show that in schools with these programs::

· Prosocial behavior improved by 10%.
· Antisocial behavior decreased by 10%.
· Assessment scores increased by 11%.

These results show that teaching students’ self-awareness, empathy, social skills, and
decision making is more effective than talking about the problems of drugs, bullying
or any other disruptive behavior that not only harms individuals, but also everyone
around them.

1 Goleman, D. (2018). Triple Focus. Un nuevo acercamiento a la educación. Barcelona: Penguin Random
House Grupo Editorial.
2 Goleman, D. (2018). Triple Focus. Un nuevo acercamiento a la educación. Barcelona: Penguin Random
House Grupo Editorial.