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This document discusses life skills and their importance. It defines life skills as abilities that allow individuals to effectively deal with everyday challenges according to the WHO. Key life skills components discussed include critical thinking, self-confidence, self-awareness, decision making, and interpersonal relationships. The goals of developing life skills are to help individuals lead successful lives through lessening negative behaviors, increasing prosocial behaviors, improving self-image and emotional adjustment, and gaining knowledge and self-control.

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Psych 8

This document discusses life skills and their importance. It defines life skills as abilities that allow individuals to effectively deal with everyday challenges according to the WHO. Key life skills components discussed include critical thinking, self-confidence, self-awareness, decision making, and interpersonal relationships. The goals of developing life skills are to help individuals lead successful lives through lessening negative behaviors, increasing prosocial behaviors, improving self-image and emotional adjustment, and gaining knowledge and self-control.

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CHAPTER EIGHT

INTRODUCTION TO LIFE SKILLS


8.1. Nature and Definition of Life skills
 “Abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that
enable individuals to deal effectively with the
demands and challenges of everyday life.” (WHO).
 “Behavioral changes or behavioral development
approach designed to address a balance of three
areas: knowledge, attitude, and skills”
(UNICEF’s).
 The abilities help to promote mental well-being
and competence in young people as they face the
realities of life.
8.2. Components of Life Skills
Critical thinking
 Thinking more effectively within curricular subject areas,
understanding the reasoning employed, assessing
independently and appropriately, and solving problems
effectively.
 Also involves improved thinking skills in dealing with real life
problems-in assessing information and arguments in social
contexts and making life decisions.
Self-confidence
 Individual’s trust in his or her own abilities, capacities, and
judgments.
Self-awareness
 It is the quality or trait that involves conscious awareness of
one’s own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Self-concept
 Incorporates traits, preferences, values, beliefs, and interests
the person believes to be true about himself/herself.
Self-esteem
 The degree to which we perceive ourselves
positively or negatively
 Our overall attitude toward ourselves, which can
be measured explicitly or implicitly.
Decision-making
 Combining and integrating available information
to choose, implement, and evaluate one out of
several possible courses of actions.
Interpersonal relationships
 Social associations, connections, or affiliations
between two or more people having various levels
of intimacy and sharing, and implying the
discovery or establishment of common ground.
Reflective communication
 Attending communications with thoughtful and
due attention to reflect on one’s own thinking,
behaviors and interaction with others.
Peers pressure resistance
 Individual’s abilities and skills to confront
negative influences from his/her group members.
Knowing rights and duties
 One’s knowledge and understanding of rights and
duties of individuals, groups, institutions and
nations allowed to do or not to do by law and/or a
culture.
8.3. Goals of Life Skills
 Knowing and applying life skills is to lead smooth and
successful life at home, work place, and in social
interpersonal relationship.
 Lessened violent behavior;
 Increased pro-social behavior
 Decreased negative, self-destructive behavior;
 Increased the ability to plan ahead and choose effective
solutions to problems;
 Improved self-image, self-awareness, social and emotional
adjustment;
 Increased acquisition of knowledge;
 Improved classroom behavior;
 Gains in self control and handling of interpersonal
problems and coping with anxiety; and
 Improved constructive conflict resolution with peers,
impulse control and popularity.

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