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Abstract<br />
The liter<strong>at</strong>ure has shown th<strong>at</strong> personal and social skills have been relevant to the<br />
<strong>de</strong>velopment of well-being and psychosocial adjustment of children and youth in<br />
general. It is important to encourage individuals to adopt an active approach, by<br />
learning tools for life. Programs th<strong>at</strong> have as their purpose the promotion of these skills<br />
have become crucial for the children and young people grow up with skills to future,<br />
prevent dysfunctional behaviors and even protect against certain diseases. Thus, the<br />
earlier the intervention is carried out within the framework of social and emotional<br />
skills more easily recognize the individual's own emotions and those of others, thus<br />
<strong>de</strong>veloping the ability to regul<strong>at</strong>e their own emotions, allowing them also to in the<br />
interpersonal space may reveal feelings, <strong>de</strong>sires, opinions, respecting others, and always<br />
showing the ability to solve immedi<strong>at</strong>e problems, to minimize the occurrence of future<br />
problems.<br />
In this context we <strong>de</strong>veloped a quasi-experimental study, using pre and post test<br />
without a control group, in or<strong>de</strong>r to evalu<strong>at</strong>e the effect of frequency of a program to<br />
promote personal and social skills <strong>at</strong> the level of self-concept, self-esteem, assertive<br />
behavior, the effect of coping and emotional intelligence. This sample consisted of<br />
seven children of the female gen<strong>de</strong>r, aged between eight and eleven years old<br />
institutionalized, and all these children were submitted to the program "Learning to Be,"<br />
which was <strong>de</strong>signed to last three months divi<strong>de</strong>d into thirteen sessions.<br />
In the final evalu<strong>at</strong>ion, the results revealed th<strong>at</strong> children had improvements in all<br />
dimensions evalu<strong>at</strong>ed, the differences being st<strong>at</strong>istically significant <strong>at</strong> the level of<br />
coping str<strong>at</strong>egies (cognitive-behavioral and active), and aggressive behavior total and all<br />
domain scores of emotional intelligence. This leads us to suggest th<strong>at</strong> the<br />
implement<strong>at</strong>ion of the program should be longer and should inclu<strong>de</strong> more children so<br />
th<strong>at</strong> skills can be <strong>de</strong>veloped to help children to recognize, manage their emotions and<br />
appreci<strong>at</strong>e the perspectives of others, setting positive goals, to take responsible<br />
<strong>de</strong>cisions.<br />
Keywords: personal, social, emotional, Emotional Intelligence, Kids<br />
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