Author: Sardón GallPublisher: José Manuel Ferro Veiga
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
People, as social beings, are forced to establish relationships with their peers, whether in the family, educational, work or leisure environment. However, it is not always easy to function in a certain social context. And it is not due to a lack of skills, but because the necessary skills to do so have not been acquired. Definitions that illustrate the meaning of skills are many. Some authors refer to them as the skills to conduct oneself through life skillfully and competently , within the social and cultural possibilities of each one: they act as a link between the factors that motivate knowledge , attitudes and values ; they promote the generation of protective factors against psychosocial problems derived from the environment; and they help you to know how to face the demands and challenges that life puts before you. In general, three classes of skills are identified: social or interpersonal (such as assertive communication or empathy), cognitive (such as decision-making or critical thinking) and skills for managing emotions (such as stress ). According to the WHO, the skills for daily life are the following: 1. Self-knowledge . Ability to know oneself, to know one's own strengths, weaknesses, attitudes, values and personal and social resources that one has for life and to face adversity. It is discovering what you want and what you don't. 2. Management of emotions and feelings . The ability to explore your own emotions and know how to manage them influences people's behavior. Those that are more difficult to handle, such as anger and violence, can have harmful results for health, especially in the youngest. 3. Managing tension and stress . It is the ability to recognize life circumstances that cause stress to deal with them constructively and eliminate or reduce them in a healthy way. 4. Assertive communication . Ability to clearly express what you think, feel or need, affirming your own rights, without allowing yourself to be manipulated or manipulated by others. It is the most efficient form of communication. 5. Empathy . The ability to imagine what another person's life is like and what they feel and put oneself in their shoes to better understand their reactions, emotions, and opinions. Having empathy helps to accept diversity and improves interpersonal relationships. Being empathic also involves your own emotions: if you feel what others feel, it is because you share feelings. 6. Interpersonal relationships . Ability to establish and maintain interpersonal relationships to interact positively with people around them, especially family, and, at the same time, end relationships that are toxic, that is, that block their own personal growth. 7. Conflict management . Accepting that conflict is part of the human condition, the challenge is to develop constructive strategies, that is, to help manage them in a way that encourages development and favors change and personal growth. This ability, in young people, helps reduce anxiety. 8. Decision making . The ability to choose helps to evaluate the possibilities and to take into account the consequences associated with choices, both on oneself and on the people in the environment. 9. Creative thinking . In order to make decisions and solve conflicts, it is necessary to explore all the alternatives and consequences, beyond one's own personal experience. 10. Critical thinking . It is the ability that allows an objective analysis of the available information together with the experience to reach its own conclusions. This helps young people to recognize what factors influence their behavior, such as the media or their peer group. This book was created with the sole intention of entertaining, without further pretense. Do not look at the technical or scientific content, because there is none.