Assignment:
Prior to beginning work on this journal
• Read Why a Child's Social-Emotional Skills Are so Important.
• Review the Journal Template Download Journal Templatethat you will use to complete this assignment
Children with challenging behaviors tend to have difficulty in the social and emotional realm (Bierman & Erath, 2006). Section 7.3 lists several reasons why social and emotional skills are important.
Besides helping children make friends and get along with others, social and emotional skills enable them to:
• behave more appropriately
• recognize and manage their emotions
• have less stress and anxiety
• perform better academically
• set and achieve positive goals
• make responsible decisions
• appreciate the perspective of others
• gain self-confidence and self-esteem
• resolve conflicts more readily and less aggressively
• avoid peer rejection and victimization
• lower their risk for later delinquency and violence
For this journal, you will reflect on three of the above reasons discuss how those positive effects will help children during various points within their lives.
In your journal, address the following items:
• Choose three of these effects of social and emotional skills and respond to the following questions. (You will include one paragraph for each example.)
• Name the effect (e.g., behave more appropriately).
• Explain how this effect will help the child make friends and get along with others.
• Explain how this effect will help the child academically.
• Explain how this effect will benefit the child later in life.
• Explain how you could teach this effect in the classroom.
The Week 4 Journal
• Must be one to two double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center's APA Style.