This may be the social taboo of the last Century we most need to overcome as we begin a new Century. Emotional Education Perspective encourages greater community dialogue and public awareness of effective strategies and actions which can address this vital, pubic health education problem. Teen Behavior Destructive To Themselves and Others 1. We don't understand the relationship between an adolescent's feelings and the violence and destructiveness their emotional pain and anger are capable of igniting. Even if we recognize the important influence their feelings have upon violent behavior, we don't know what to do to help teens handle those feelings in a more healthy and safe manner.
Schools feel overburdened with too much responsibility already.
They feel it is parents, churches or other institutions which should be dealing with emotional education of their students. Parents, particularly single-parent households, feel overburdened, unprepared or incapable of helping teens with their troubling feelings. Teens typically do not speak openly about their feelings, particularly those who are encountering self-acceptance problems, painful losses and ridicule by peers. Teachers have not been adequately trained nor equipped to discuss principles and issues of emotional education with teens. Schools feel they are already providing emotional education.