Veiga-Branco, Augusta2019-04-042019-04-042018Veiga-Branco, Augusta (2018). Program unit 9 - emotional competence – self awerness. In Psycho-educational and socialintervention program for parents. Roménia: Lumen. p. 99-103. ISBN 978-973-166-508-5978-973-166-508-5http://hdl.handle.net/10198/192111. Emotion – is a complex and genetically acquired activation, which is expressed by arousal in the body as a response to a stimulus. 2. Emotional Competence (EC) - the demonstration of self-efficacy in emotion eliciting social transitions‖ (Saarni, 1997: 38) and is intended to mean how people, although they are experiencing an emotional reaction, are able to use the knowledge they have about emotions and their own emotions in parallel in order to relate successfully with others. 3. Emotional Intelligence (EI) - the ability to perceive accurately, to evaluate and to express emotions; the ability to understand and/or generate feelings when they facilitate thinking; the ability to understand emotion and emotional knowledge; and the ability to control emotions in order to promote emotional and intellectual growth” (Mayer, Salovey & Caruso, 2004). 4. Self-awareness - perception of emotional arousal in the body, identifying in which parts of the body and how emotion is expressedengEmotional competenceSelf awernessbook part