
However, emotional health is not about being happy all the time. Good emotional health is an approach, a way of being, a set of skills which we can develop to help us navigate the ups and downs of life. It’s the ability to be aware of, to understand and to manage our emotions. This enables us to build and sustain healthy relationships with those around us and can be a strong protective factor against mental health problems.
This is why it is so important and why we at Family Links, the Centre for Emotional Health, want to raise awareness of what it is and how everyone can develop it. We have created a model of seven assets which provide us with a framework to help build good emotional health: self-awareness, self-beliefs, self-regulation, social awareness, beliefs about others, relationship skills and self-agency. Each of these assets can be developed (that’s why they are called assets – everyone has them and can improve them).
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