Emotional

Intelligence
 How to prevent
students from
depression?
 Before a child get
into a deep
depression, we can
realise that this is
going to happen
because of some of
their attitudes, and
this is the moment
when we can get it
back.
 Claudio’s case.
 What can we do to help him and get the
situation back?
Dep ressi on

 A feeling of sadness and hopeless. A

mental state during which people suffer
from great sadness, unnatural, tiredness
and unwillingness to do anything,
difficulty in thinking, etc.
What ca uses
dep ressi on?
 Pesimist manner of facing failure.
 Financial troubles within the family circle
 Parents’ split-ups affect students’ performance
at school.
 According to Goleman Children tend to adopt a
state of melancholy before being depressive.
 A melancholic personality as a product of sad
or shoking experiences generates a state of
depression
 Consequ en ces of
dep ressio n
1.- Lack of social skills.
- They just can´t face problems with other people.

- They are regarded as “not friendly”.

- They can’t enjoy playing with their classmates.

2.- It difficults the student memory.

- Poor academic performance.
Ways to st op
dep ressi on
 Think before act.
 Think how to face a problem in a non-
violent way.
 Check and modify negative beliefs
related to depression.

“The transformation of our thoughts allows,

in some way, to transform our feelings”
The Sc hool ; res ou rc es
for a goo d T ea chin g.
The School

 One of the educative’s agent

 The place where children and teenagers spend the
main part of their time.
 Takes a lot of social and educative responsability
above the rest of the agent
 ( Family and Community).
 “To show high expectation about the possibilities
of learning and development for all the students”.
[1]
 It is important to reinforce and improve the
interpersonal relationship between teachers and
students.
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[1] Marco para la buena enseñanza.