Life Skills are an important asset in today’s Society and essential for success! According to UNICEF, Life Skills are a behavior change or behavior development approach designed to address balance of three areas:
Knowledge Attitude Skills
The world bodies such as UNICEF, UNESCO, and WHO list the ten core Life Skills as:
- Self-awareness
- Critical thinking
- Creative thinking
- Decision making
- Problem Solving
- Effective communication
- Interpersonal relationship
- Empathy
- Coping with stress
- Coping with emotion
Life skills training/ education takes into account psychosocial competencies and interpersonal skills that help students to make right decisions, solve problems, think critically and creatively, communicate effectively, build healthy relationships, empathize with others, and cope with managing their lives in a healthy and productive manner.
(WHO) defines Life skills as: the abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life.
Life skill has been classified into three broad categories:
- Thinking skills: Thinking skills are the skill that enhances the logical faculty of the brain using an analytical ability, thinking creatively and critically, and developing problem-solving skills and improving decision-making abilities.
- Social skills: Social skills include interpersonal skills, communication skills, leadership skills, management skills, advocacy skills, co-operation and team building skills, etc.
- Emotional skills: Emotional skills, involves, knowing and being comfortable with oneself. Thus, self– management, including managing/coping with feelings, emotions, stress and resisting peer and family pressure.
The life skills training program at Socially Welly typically focuses on helping struggling young adults between 18 and 25 manage the above mentioned skills in the comfort of their own environment. We will go into the work force, social settings, and home environments to create the best plan possible.
These young people are experiencing self-defeating behaviors that are preventing them from successfully transitioning into adulthood.
Comprehensive, in-depth programs, are created for each individual person to offer life skill training designed to prepare young adult men and women to make positive life decisions.
Parents, if you have an adult child from Pennsylvania or Delaware who is struggling to launch, call us to schedule an intake now and we can create a program designed for success.