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The social skills are effective behaviors in social interaction situations. Every situation needs a few answer rules if we want to adapt ourselves to them successfully.
It is necessary to bear in mind that every individual is born in a culture with certain customs and different social norms, which determine a guessed right way of acting.
When a person lacks styles of answer and strategies that make to him to be related successfully possible, it is considered that it has a deficit in his social skills. There is no psychological problem, for simple or complex that this is, that it has not associated difficulties to be related to the others. It is a competing element in problems like the phobias, sexual problems, of couple, depressions, crime, drug addiction, etc...
TYPES OF SOCIAL SKILLS
- Assertiveness: It is the way of acting that allows to a person to act based on his most important interests, to defend itself without anxiety, to express comfortably honest feelings or to exercise the personal rights, without denying those of the others. We all have the same assertive rights, which value finishes when they begin those of the others. And the person who manages to internalize them, will be a person psychologically healthy. These rights understand: Right to judge our own aptitudes, to commit errors, to say "not" without feeling guilty, to have political beliefs, not to justify ourselves before the others, to decide what to do with our body, time and property, to be independent, to be whom let's love and not who the others wait, to be treated by dignity and to say "I do not understand it".
- Empathy: It is a skill proper of the human being, who allows us to comprise and experience the point of view of others without for it to have to agree. It is the aptitude to put itself in the place of another person from there to understand him. It is not enough to other to understand, it is necessary to demonstrate it. A person can have motives for acting or for thinking about this form.
- To be able to listen: To listen with comprehension and care, knowledge what another person tries to communicate to us and transmit that we have received his message.
- To define a problem: To analyze the situation, bearing in mind the objective elements, as well as the feelings and needs put in game.
- Solutions evaluation: To analyze the consequences that every solution will have in short and long term for the implied persons.
- Negotiation: Communication directed to find an alternative of solution that turns out to be acceptable for both parts. The above mentioned answer will bear in mind the feelings, motivations and interests of both.
- Well-taken expression of the anger, displeasure or grief: Declaration of suitable and respectful form with the others, of negative feelings.
- To apologize or to admit ignorance: Aptitude to realize the proper committed errors.
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