The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence : Theory, Development, Assessment, and Application at Home, School and in the Workplace

Building on nearly eighty years of scientific work, The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence is the first definitive resource that brings together a stellar panel of academics, researchers, and practitioners, in the field. Sweeping in scope, the text presents information on the most important conceptual models, reviews and evaluates the most valid and reliable methods for assessing emotional intelligence, and offers specific guidelines for applying the principles of Emotional Intelligence in a variety of settings.

REUVEN BAR-ON, an American-born Israeli psychologist, is the founding director of the Institute of Applied Intelligence in Denmark.He is also a member of the Collaborative to Advance Social and Emotional Learning at the University of Illinois and a member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University in the US. Dr. Bar-On has been involved in defining, measuring and applying "emotional and social intelligence" since 1980.He coined the term "EQ" and developed the "EQ-i", the first test ofemotional intelligence to be published. JAMES D. A. PARKER is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Trent University in Ontario, Canada, where he directsresearch on alexithymia and its relation to emotional intelligence. Dr. Parker joined Dr. Bar-On in researching emotional intelligence in 1996 and has co-developed with him the "EQ-i:YV", the first published test ofemotional intelligence for children and adolescents.