ABSTRACT
In the current research, emotional well-being is traditionally defined as an indicator for a child’s optimal psychological development. Since early childhood, full development of a child’s emotional sphere is a necessary condition for their further psychological and physical health and development. Doctors have proved favorable influence of positive emotional experiences on a human organism. Numerous clinical researches show that lack of positive emotional experiences might cause serious psychological and physical disorders. Emotional deprivation in childhood (lack or insufficient satisfaction of needs for acknowledgment, love, and communication, which is manifested in deficit of tenderness, love, and physical contact) disturbs formation of the boundaries of one’s own body as well as self-consciousness, distorts, and retards a child’s psychological development, and consequently leads to alexithymia-incapability to render with words and describe emotional experiences, differentiate, and take into consideration other people’s feelings (“emotional insensitivity”) [10, 11].
