It will be unrealistic to expect a candidate to effect emotional change in a short period of time, particularly in regard to the deep seated emotions of the early developmental stages. Those emotions may take months, perhaps years, before significant change is noticed. In the process of accompanying the candidate's growth the formator needs to evaluate the degree of change she or he makes over time from negative to positive emotions in the scale of frequency of occurrence and the intensity of the emotion.
V. UNDERSTANDING MAJOR EMOTIONS
We shall now try to understand some of the emotions that have significant impact on our growth as integrated persons. Among these are happiness, sadness and grief, anger, fear, anxiety, guilt and shame.