What range of client challenges or problems may be due in full or in part to social skills deficits? How do these deficits contribute to the presenting issue?
What will be an ideal response?
Below is a list of important social skills, the absence of which may contribute to significant challenges in functioning. Students should be encouraged to identify as many of these as possible on their own, and then discuss why their absence might present problems for certain client populations.
• Assertiveness
• Identifying social support resources
• Listening
• Interpreting others’ reactions
• Giving and receiving positive comments
• The ability to talk about a number of topics
• Basic self-presentation and etiquette
• Knowing whom to approach, when, and how, depending on the purpose
• Emotions management
• Being open to differences
• Starting conversations
• Problem solving capacity
• Being active in conversations
• Having positive self-regard
• Reciprocity and balance
• The ability to organize time
• Initiating contacts, making suggestions
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