Emotional Intelligence is a miricle for success

Emotional Intelligence is the quiet miracle for success in psychotherapy, anger management, healthcare and business.

Enough evidence is available to determine the value of incorporating Emotional Intelligence into counseling, psychotherapy, business as well as college and interpersonal relationships. Professionals and organizations that are moving to actualize this new trend as experiencing an increase in referrals as well as a return on investments and success in a wide range of areas.

·      Counselors and psychotherapists who are using Pre and Post Emotional Intelligence Assessments along with skill enhancement are finding a greater number of requests for EQ for couples as opposed to marriage counseling.

·      Emotional Intelligence Coaching for “disruptive physicians” is widely recognized in healthcare as the intervention of choice. With Pre and Post EQ Assessments, each intervention is “evidenced based”.

·      Monster.com now routinely uses EQ Assessments as a part of the standard interview process for applicants for management positions as well as high stress jobs such as customer service.

·      The Criminal Justice System in California is now requiring that all Certified Anger Management Providers use “evidence based” intervention that use EQ Pre and Post Assessments along with written curricula.

·      Social Work programs in the UK and the U.S. are including Emotional Intelligence into their training.

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Anger Management Is An Intervention Whose Time Has Come

In 1975, Dr. Raymond Novaco coined the term “anger management” and devoted much of his academic work researching strategies for managing the toxic effects of anger. Most of this original research was on the development of testing instruments designed to measure the changes in psychological and physiological changes when a person is experiencing anger.

Since 1975, one of the most momentous developments occurred in 2013 when the Group For The Advancement Of Psychiatry decided not to define anger as a pathological condition. Instead, the American Psychiatric Association considers anger to be a normal human emotion that is a problem when it is too intense, occurs too frequently, lasts too long, leads to aggression or violence, impacts health or destroys work, school or personal relationships. Anger is considered to be a “lifestyle issue”

To the dismay of the American Psychological Association, psychologists were the losers in their unprecedented campaign to have anger listed as an illness. Counseling or psychotherapy is rapidly becoming passé in addressing problems in impulse control.

Skill enhancement in Emotional Intelligence for Impulse Control is now the newest trend in anger management intervention. On August 22, 23, 2014, The American Association of Anger Management is devoting its’ two day annual conference focusing on EI for anger management.

http://aaamp.org/2014-first-annual-conference/

2014 Conference of The American Association of Anger Management Providers - Topix

2014 Conference of The American Association of Anger Management Providers - Topix