Literature Review
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Students are living in a constant age of fast paced exposure to growing mental awareness and social-emotional skill deficits. The vast growing number of students from elementary to secondary who suffer from the lack of social-emotional skills and the need to help these students develop in social-emotional areas is growing. Teachers are finding gaps in the students’ social-emotional skills. Teachers are attempting to provide the proper tools to students in order for them to adjust to the changing world around them through self-regulation skills and strategies. Teachers are finding education to include more than curriculum and academics, and there is a need to focus on whole child development. School counselors are the individuals most often charged with the task of assisting students with social-emotional issues. In conversation with a current school counselor, the counselor acknowledged that current students have higher anxiety and fewer coping skills to deal with these outside problems and/or traumas like bullying, anxiety, or family crisis that they are faced with on a daily basis (M. Melroy, personal communication, December 16, 2019).
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