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NO 1695

Social Competencies: Affect

Social competencies relating to affect or emotional functioning can be said to involve a broad category of skills that influence a child or young person's overall pattern of functioning, Mastery in this area includes the skills required to manage emotional turmoil, personal thoughts, and feelings. Competencies in this area also involve a range of skills associated with presentation of self in interpersonal relations. Affect competencies are highlighted with respect to the following areas:

Learning is clearly inhibited when a young person is handicapped by anxieties, rage, or a distorted self-image. Learning is also impaired when a child is unable to give and receive affection. In more subtle ways, learning is hampered in young people who cannot deal with sadness, joy, excitement, or who repeatedly stumbles in social situations because of misreading the emotional responses of others and her or his impact on others. A young person lacking in emotional competencies may be incapable of heeding danger in the face of risk-taking behavior or helplessly paralysed by anxiety. She or he may be unable to think and plan ahead, to know when the teacher or foster parents are angry, or to understand why other children in the playground avoid playing with her or him. Finally, she or he may be unable to take risks in relationships for fear of making mistakes, even though risk-taking is an important part of social learning,

RICHARD SMALL and LEON FULCHER

Small, R.W. and Fulcher, L.C. (2006). Developing Social Competencies in Group Care Practice, in Fulcher, L.C. and Ainsworth, F. Group Care Practice with Children and Young People Revisited. New York; Haworth

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