Emotional skills: what are we talking about?

Emotional intelligence (EI) has been the subject of intense interest since the 1990s. Meta-analyses reveal a significant link between people’s level of EI and their professional success, overall health and well-being, and their school performance. In the field of health, its interest is now manifest. Current research has made it possible to overcome many prejudices that negatively connote emotions in the professional field. (“emotion = sign of weakness”) and may have led caregivers to ignore their own emotions or those of patients, often under the guise of a voluntary “professional distancing”. From now on, all medical and nursing activity is studied from a new angle, which makes it possible to reassess the potential of emotions at all levels of care practices, in the relationship with patients and even at the heart of the clinical evaluation.

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