{"id":39,"date":"2008-10-12T06:36:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T10:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2023-11-23T22:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T03:59:06","slug":"emotionally-smart-children-in-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/emotionally-smart-children-in-jamaica\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotionally Smart Children in Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamaica Gleaner published an article (October 8, 2008) bringing attention to World Mental Health Day (October 10, 2008) under the headline, <em>&#8220;Your feelings do matter.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on Pan American Health Organisation statistics, as many as one in every four persons is affected by a mental disorder, and the mental illness disease burden has increased from 8.8 per cent in 1990 to 22 per cent in 2002.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaica\u00a0Ministry of Health has published a\u00a0training manual, <strong><em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Raising Emotionally Smart Children. <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Emotional intelligence involves\u00a0Self-awareness,\u00a0Emotional management, Empathy, and Managing Relationships.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">The BRAVE technique (developed by Dr Wendel Abel, head of University of the West Indies&#8217; Department of Psychiatry): Become aware of your feelings; Relax; Acknowledge, affirm, assert your feelings; Ventilate your feelings; Exercise these techniques.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamaica Gleaner published an article (October 8, 2008) bringing attention to World Mental Health Day (October 10, 2008) under the headline, &#8220;Your feelings do matter.&#8221; &#8220;Based on Pan American Health Organisation statistics, as many as one in every four persons is affected by a mental disorder, and the mental illness disease burden has increased\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/emotionally-smart-children-in-jamaica\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[220,6,46,219],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldwide","tag-brave","tag-children","tag-emotional-intelligence","tag-jamaica"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}