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Life Skills

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Life Skills

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  1. Life Skills By ShinxIndia For More Info Visit : ShinxIndia.in

  2. What are Life Skills?  Life Skills are the abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life.  Life Skills are the abilities that facilitate the physical, mental and emotional well being of an individual with proper growth.

  3. Concepts of Life Skills  The Concepts of Life Skills is becoming popular these days.  World Health Organization: WHO initiated the life skills education. And CBSE has also introduced it in our schools in the early part of the present decade.  Life Skills can also be conceptualized as psycho-social competence.Psycho-Social competence is an individual ability to maintain a state of mental well being and to demonstrate through adaptive and positive behavior while interacting with others and with his/her culture and environment.  Adaptive means the person is flexible in approach and Positive behavior means a person is forward-looking.

  4. Categories of Key Life Skills  Life Skills can be broadly categorized into two types:-  Thinking Skills -> Relate to reflection at the personal level.  Social Skills -> Relate to interpersonal skills and do not necessarily dependlogical thinking. And further these categories consisit of too many life skills which are needed for learning assertive behavior and negotiating effectively.

  5. 10 Core Life Skills  10 Core Life Skills described by WHO. • Self Awareness • Empathy • Critical Thinking • Creative thinking • Decision Making • Problem solving • Interpersonal relationalship skills • Effective Communication • Coping with Stress • Dealing with emotions

  6. Self Awareness  Self Awareness means recognition of ‘self’ and ofour character, our strengths and weaknesses, ourlikes and dislikes.  Developing self awareness can help us inrecognizing when we are stressed or feel underpressure.

  7. Empathy  It is the ability to understand what life is like for another person, even in a situation with which we may not be familiar.  Empathy can help to accept others who may be very different from us.

  8. Creative Thinking  It is a novel way of seeing and doing things.  It consists of four components :  Fluency (generating new ideas)  Flexibility (shifting perspective easily)  Originality (conceiving something new)  Elaboration(building on other ideas)

  9. Decision Making  Decision Making helps us to deal constructively with important issues in our lives and take appropriate action.  It teaches us how to be proactive in making decisions about our life in relation to a healthy assessment of the different options availableand in determining what effects these differentdecisions are likely to have.

  10. Problem Solving  Problem Solving helps us to deal constructively with problems in our lives.  Significant problems that are left unresolvedcan cause mental stress and give rise to accompanying physical strain.

  11. Interpersonal Relationship Skills  Interpersonal Skills helps us to relate in positive ways with the people with whom we interact.  This means being able to maintain friendly relations with family, friends and colleagues, which can be of a great important source of social support.

  12. Effective Communication  Effective Communication means that we are able to express ourselves clearly and effectively both verbally and nonverbally, in ways that are appropriate to our cultures and situations. This means being able to express our opinions and desires, and also our needs and fear.  It means being able ask for advice and help in times of need.

  13. Coping with Stress  It means recognising the source of stress in our lives, recognising how stress affects us and acting in ways that help us control these levels of stress by changing our environment or lifestyle and by learning how to relax.

  14. Dealing with Emotions  It means recognising our emotions as well as those of others, being aware of how emotions influence behaviour, and being able to respond to emotions appropriately. Intense emotions like anger or sadness can have an effect on our health if we do not respond appropriately.

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