The main aims of improving emotional intelligence are emotional self-awareness, managing emotions, harnessing emotions productively, empathy, and handling relationships. EI includes understanding one's own emotions as well as those of others.
Referring to the work of Piaget, Erikson, and Goffman as well as to the studies of David Elkind, this program looks at the intellectual, emotional, and social consequences resulting from adolescent changes in thinking - a transition that can create social and emotional difficulties.
