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This posting offers resources and notes for defining emotional literacy, emotion regulation, and empowerment in the realm of helping parents, schools, and other influences in a child's life to better encourage children's development of emotional literacy.

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600 words of notes and references define and contextualize how these terms can assist within preventive programs for clients who suffer from body image problems or eating disturbances: Emotional literacy, emotion regulation and empowerment.

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First off, in defining the important concepts of emotional literacy, emotion regulation, and empowerment, Akbag, Küçüktepe, & Özmercan (2016) insist that emotional literacy gives us the capacity to recognize, label, and understand feelings in self and others. Emotional literacy "is described as being aware of our own feelings in order to improve our personal power and life quality as well as people's life quality around us" (p. 85).

Next, emotion regulation is one's ability to manage one's feelings and emotions in a calm, effective, rational, healthy manner. Emotion regulation is theoretically deemed as a highly "...multifaceted construct that refers to the ways in which persons respond to, and manage psychological distress" (Khodabakhsh, Borjali, Sohrabi, & Farrokhi, 2015, p. 24).

Thirdly, empowerment suggests what many choice feminists have explained as a "freedom not as simply the capacity to make individual choices,' but rather as the ability to determine your own life path" (Al Wazni, 2015, p. 328).

As a result, these terms help to reiterate how parents, schools, and other influences in a child's life can help children to better develop emotional literacy. Because of these supports, emotional literacy, emotion regulation, and empowerment can definitely ...

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