"Emotional sensitivity" refers to the ability to be aware of and understand one's own emotions and the emotions of others. It means being perceptive and responsive to emotional cues in oneself and in those around you.
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Children's levels
of emotional sensitivity vary, and when some children are separated from positive people in their lives they can feel distressed.
The factors included academic challenges, suggesting a learning disability; behavioral challenges, suggesting an emotional disorder; or academic strengths
with emotional sensitivity, suggesting that he is gifted and talented.
Individuals with ADHD experience a complex set of difficulties
including emotional sensitivity, executive functioning deficits, social skill deficits and challenges regulating their attention.
This will help change the way we react to the vulnerability with
less emotional sensitivity to increase the chance of having a better relationship.
Selling the home at the end of a marriage calls
for emotional sensitivity and an understanding of financial and legal complexities.
Emotional sensitivity refers to a parent's anticipating and being sensitive to a child's needs and then attempting to meet those perceived needs.
A study by a team at Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary has found that women's
higher emotional sensitivity helps them to better understand what a dog's growls mean.
Take a look at these 5 activities to help kids
develop emotional sensitivity — from making a face with felt, discussing emotions and imagining different scenarios; there are a lot of ways to teach your child about emotions!
For one thing, unless a parenting handbook is written specifically for parents of gifted kids, it won't cover issues that relate specifically to such children, such as asynchronous development and
intense emotional sensitivity.
It explains the traits of giftedness and how to tell if your child is gifted, but also covers under - identified gifted kids and some of the problems that come with being gifted such
as emotional sensitivity.
The study from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that the estradiol (a form of estrogen) fluctuation that is common during the menopausal transition may
enhance emotional sensitivity to psychosocial stress.
An overstimulated, undernourished nervous system results in
greater emotional sensitivity and reactivity, so by strengthening this system we increase our threshold for stress - and anxiety - provoking stimuli.
Told with Trier's
keen emotional sensitivity and affinity for playful narrative structure, Louder Than Bombs explores the subjective experience of memory and how we allow it to affect our lives.
Although her work centers on black subjects, the artist makes skin color secondary to the psychological aspects of her sitters — her use of soft hues of yellow, ochre, red, and mauve express an
intimate emotional sensitivity even when the figure is doing something as mundane as hanging out on a couch in their apartment.
Hyperallergic explores the importance of her paintings and mixed media works that exhibited a «
deep emotional sensitivity to the realities of poverty and displacement.»
Things I've inherited: photographs, embroideries, handwork, crochet, knitting needles, old pattern books, green eyes, blonde hair, a strong work ethic,
various emotional sensitivities, an old skill set and a stubborn belief that most things are worth mending.
For too long and for too many people, livestock pigs have been relegated to the murky outskirts of our awareness, despite possessing an intellect and
emotional sensitivity found in few other non-human species.
Attachment security with the primary caregiver is correlated with intellectual development and functioning of children in that responsiveness and attunement, maternal involvement, and
emotional sensitivity support healthy cognitive development (see Crandell & Hobson, 1999 for a brief overview of the literature).
Parent relationships and adolescents» depression and social anxiety: Indirect associations
via emotional sensitivity to rejection threat.
They develop from a combination of temperament or
emotional sensitivity combined with invalidating emotional environments in which basic childhood needs have not been met.
In fact, approximately 80 % of women experience the «baby blues» — a period of
heightened emotional sensitivity and mild depression which occurs within the first 10 days after delivery and may last about 1 - 2 weeks.
In short, the students who come to us have experienced significant stress for children their age, and they bring a heightened level
of emotional sensitivity with them to school.
That emotional sensitivity is an essential skill in the loan business, he adds.
We move toward design that appeals to our aesthetic and
emotional sensitivities.
One of my psychotherapy clients put it well when she commented: «
My emotional sensitivity is like the crazy sense of smell I have now.
For instance, the philosophy of attachment parenting promotes the belief that
emotional sensitivity and physical closeness is the underlying principle behind developmental health: stay in close contact to your baby, breastfeed with skin - to - skin contact, and wear the baby with you so he can hear your heartbeat.
Their emotional sensitivity meter is heightened, which means that they more commonly display emotions such as sadness, embarrassment, anger, fear and worry more dramatically than their peers or those that are less emotionally sensitive.
Exposure to diversity can aid in tweens» empathy for others, tolerance for difference and development of
emotional sensitivity.
It's natural to assume that you may imagine some early pregnancy symptoms such as tender breasts, fatigue, bloating,
emotional sensitivity, light cramping, and even food cravings.
In addition, infants are less likely to develop fearful tendencies if their mothers show higher levels of
emotional sensitivity and responsiveness during parent - child interactions (Gartstein et al 2017).
At the center of these parenting principles is the core of healthy relationships:
emotional sensitivity.
Forget about the size of a baseball; if what you say is true about the inaccuracy of our perceptions, how can we be as sure as we are about the perception of our enemies — especially when you mix in some fear, anger and
emotional sensitivity?