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J.R. Hernandez · Psychotherapist

Emotional Intelligence Books
for Adults & Children

These two books translate clinical expertise in emotional intelligence, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and emotional regulation into practical resources for two different audiences. The first is a structured 10-step guide for adults navigating stress, anxiety, and depression. The second is a picture book that gives young children the vocabulary to name and understand their emotions before they have the words to ask for help.

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Emotional Intelligence and Behavioral Therapies book by J.R. Hernandez

Emotional Intelligence Book for Adults

Emotional Intelligence &
Behavioral Therapies

368 pages · Available in English & Spanish · Print & Digital

A bibliographic thesis on the integration of Emotional Intelligence into cognitive-behavioral therapies, structured as a practical 10-step guide. Each step builds on the previous one, moving from foundational emotional literacy (identifying and naming basic and complex emotions, distinguishing appropriate from inappropriate negative emotions) through applied self-regulation strategies drawn from CBT and REBT, to a final phase of consolidation and relapse prevention.

The book covers: emotional awareness and identification, self-compassion and self-care practices, social skills development, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy fundamentals, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques, and a proposed integration the author calls "Cognitive Emotional Behavioral Therapy." Grounded in research from Salovey, Mayer, Fernández-Berrocal, and Beck, and designed for independent application by adults managing stress, anxiety, or depression.

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Emotional Intelligence Book for Kids

Toto's Journey
Through Emotions

39 pages · Available in English & Spanish · Print & Digital

A picture book for young children that follows Toto, a small elephant, as he discovers what emotions are and why every one of them matters. Through encounters in a colorful forest, children learn to name and understand basic emotions: joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. Each emotion is introduced through a simple story moment that children can recognize from their own experience, with a friend named Seth who helps Toto understand what each feeling does and why it is important.

Designed for parents and educators who want to give children an early foundation in emotional intelligence. A note for adults explains the distinction between emotions (automatic, universal responses) and feelings (how we interpret those responses through thought, memory, and language). Building this vocabulary early supports emotional regulation, empathy, and resilience as the child grows. Dedicated to Theodore "Toto" Hernandez.

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Toto's Journey Through Emotions, children's book on emotional intelligence by J.R. Hernandez

About the Author

Why a Psychotherapist
Writes About Emotional Intelligence

J.R. Hernandez

Psychotherapist · Master in Emotional Intelligence · Burnout Specialist

These books exist because emotional intelligence is not an abstract concept. It is a clinical framework that determines how people identify what they are feeling, regulate their response, and function under pressure. In therapy, this framework is applied one person at a time. In writing, it reaches further.

The adult guide emerged from a postgraduate thesis at the Instituto de Estudios Psicológicos de España, where the research question was whether integrating emotional intelligence training into cognitive-behavioral therapy could produce better outcomes for stress, anxiety, and depression. The answer, supported by the literature, was yes. The book translates that finding into a structured, self-directed program.

The children's book came from watching a child learn to name what he was feeling and realizing that this single skill, building emotional vocabulary early, is the foundation everything else rests on. Regulation, empathy, resilience, social functioning: all of it starts with the ability to identify and articulate an emotional state.

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