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Social skills

Index Social skills

A social skill is any competence facilitating interaction and communication with others where social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. [1]

63 relations: Active listening, Alcohol abuse, Alcohol and health, Alcoholism, Antisocial personality disorder, Asperger syndrome, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Autism, Autism spectrum, Basic interpersonal communicative skills, Behavioral cusp, Body language, Borderline personality disorder, Circle of Friends (disabled care), Communication, Community reinforcement approach and family training, Convention (norm), Crime, Dark triad, Delegation, DISCO – European Dictionary of Skills and Competences, Emotion, Emotional intelligence, Emotional literacy, Employment and Training Administration, Eye contact, Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, Grandiosity, Hyperkinetic disorder, Impression management, Interpersonal relationship, Language, Life skills, Major depressive disorder, Meta-communication, Narcissism, Nonverbal communication, Observational learning, Operant conditioning, People skills, Persuasion, Power (social and political), Prefrontal cortex, Psychopathy, Reinforcement, Richard Boyatzis, Robert D. Hare, Semantic prosody, Snakes in Suits, Social anxiety, ..., Social behavior, Social cognition, Social competence, Social dynamics, Social intelligence, Social psychology, Social reality, Socialization, Soft skills, Stewardship, Substance use disorder, Superficial charm, Theory of mind. Expand index (13 more) »

Active listening

Active listening is a communication technique that is used in counseling, training, and conflict resolution.

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Alcohol abuse

Alcohol abuse is a previous psychiatric diagnosis in which there is recurring harmful use of alcohol despite its negative consequences.

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Alcohol and health

Alcohol (also known as ethanol) has a number of effects on health.

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Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

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Antisocial personality disorder

Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD or APD) is a personality disorder characterized by a long term pattern of disregard for, or violation of, the rights of others.

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Asperger syndrome

Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's, is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental disorder of the neurodevelopmental type.

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Autism

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by troubles with social interaction and communication and by restricted and repetitive behavior.

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Autism spectrum

Autism spectrum, also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a range of conditions classified as neurodevelopmental disorders.

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Basic interpersonal communicative skills

Basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS) are language skills needed to interact in social situations, for example, when speaking to a friend on the telephone.

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Behavioral cusp

A behavioral cusp is any behavior change that brings an organism's behavior into contact with new contingencies that have far-reaching consequences.

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Body language

Body language is a type of nonverbal communication in which physical behavior, as opposed to words, are used to express or convey information.

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Borderline personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder (BPD), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD), is a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by unstable relationships with other people, unstable sense of self, and unstable emotions.

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Circle of Friends (disabled care)

The Circle of Friends approach is a method designed to increase the socialization and inclusion of a disabled person with their peers.

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Communication

Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.

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Community reinforcement approach and family training

Community reinforcement approach and family training (CRAFT) is a behavior therapy approach for treating addiction.

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Convention (norm)

A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms, or criteria, often taking the form of a custom.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Dark triad

The dark triad is a subject in psychology that focuses on three personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.

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Delegation

Delegation is the assignment of any responsibility or authority to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities.

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DISCO – European Dictionary of Skills and Competences

DISCO – European Dictionary of Skills and Competences is a structured vocabulary for the description of skills and competences in different contexts such as labour market, education, and training, and the recognition of qualifications.

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Emotion

Emotion is any conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity and a certain degree of pleasure or displeasure.

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Emotional intelligence

Emotional intelligence (EI), also known as Emotional quotient (EQ) and Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EIQ), is the capability of individuals to recognize their own emotions and those of others, discern between different feelings and label them appropriately, use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, and manage and/or adjust emotions to adapt to environments or achieve one's goal(s).

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Emotional literacy

The term emotional literacy has often been used in parallel to, and sometimes interchangeably with, the term emotional intelligence.

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Employment and Training Administration

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is part of the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Eye contact

Eye contact occurs when two people look at each other's eyes at the same time.

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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) are a group of conditions that can occur in a person whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy.

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Grandiosity

Grandiosity refers to an unrealistic sense of superiority, a sustained view of oneself as better than others that causes the narcissist to view others with disdain or as inferior, as well as to a sense of uniqueness: the belief that few others have anything in common with oneself and that one can only be understood by a few or very special people.

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Hyperkinetic disorder

Hyperkinetic disorder is an outdated term for a psychiatric neurodevelopmental condition emerging in early childhood.

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Impression management

Impression management is a conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person, object or event.

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Interpersonal relationship

An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association or acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring.

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Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Life skills

Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable humans to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of life.

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Major depressive disorder

Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known simply as depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of low mood that is present across most situations.

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Meta-communication

Meta-communication - (Etymology: Gk, meta + L, communicare, to inform), or metacommunication, is a secondary communication (including indirect cues) about how a piece of information is meant to be interpreted.

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Narcissism

Narcissism is the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one's own attributes.

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Nonverbal communication

Nonverbal communication (NVC) between people is communication through sending and receiving wordless cues.

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Observational learning

Observational learning is learning that occurs through observing the behavior of others.

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Operant conditioning

Operant conditioning (also called "instrumental conditioning") is a learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

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People skills

People skills are patterns of behavior and behavioral interactions.

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Persuasion

Persuasion is an umbrella term of influence.

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Power (social and political)

In social science and politics, power is the ability to influence or outright control the behaviour of people.

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Prefrontal cortex

In mammalian brain anatomy, the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the cerebral cortex which covers the front part of the frontal lobe.

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Psychopathy

Psychopathy, sometimes considered synonymous with sociopathy, is traditionally defined as a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits.

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Reinforcement

In behavioral psychology, reinforcement is a consequence that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus.

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Richard Boyatzis

Richard Eleftherios Boyatzis (born October 1, 1946) is an American organizational theorist and Distinguished University Professor of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University.

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Robert D. Hare

Robert D. Hare, C.M. (born 1934 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a researcher in the field of criminal psychology.

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Semantic prosody

Semantic prosody, also discourse prosody, describes the way in which certain seemingly neutral words can be perceived with positive or negative associations through frequent occurrences with particular collocations.

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Snakes in Suits

Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work is a 2006 non-fiction book by industrial psychologist Paul Babiak and criminal psychologist Robert D. Hare.

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Social anxiety

Social anxiety can be defined as nervousness in social situations.

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Social behavior

Social behavior is behavior among two or more organisms, typically from the same species.

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Social cognition

Social cognition is "a sub-topic of social psychology that focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situations.

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Social competence

Social competence is a complex, multidimensional concept consisting of social, emotional (e.g., affect regulation), cognitive (e.g., fund of information, skills for processing/acquisition, perspective taking), and behavioral (e.g., conversation skills, prosocial behavior) skills, as well as motivational and expectancy sets (e.g., moral development, self-efficacy) needed for successful social adaptation.

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Social dynamics

Social dynamics can refer to the behavior of groups that results from the interactions of individual group members as well to the study of the relationship between individual interactions and group level behaviors.

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Social intelligence

Social intelligence, the capacity to know oneself and to know others, is as inalienable a part of the human condition as is the capacity to know objects or sounds, and it deserves to be investigated no less than these other "less charged" forms.

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Social psychology

Social psychology is the study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

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Social reality

Social reality is distinct from biological reality or individual cognitive reality, representing as it does a phenomenological level created through social interaction and thereby transcending individual motives and actions.

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Socialization

In sociology, socialization is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of society.

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Soft skills

Soft skills are a combination of people skills, social skills, communication skills, character traits, attitudes, career attributes, social intelligence and emotional intelligence quotients among others that enable people to navigate their environment, work well with others, perform well, and achieve their goals with complementing hard skills.

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Stewardship

Stewardship is an ethic that embodies the responsible planning and management of resources.

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Substance use disorder

A substance use disorder (SUD), also known as a drug use disorder, is a condition in which the use of one or more substances leads to a clinically significant impairment or distress.

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Superficial charm

Superficial charm (or insincere charm or glib charm) is the tendency to be smooth, engaging, charming, slick and verbally facile.

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Theory of mind

Theory of mind is the ability to attribute mental states—beliefs, intents, desires, emotions, knowledge, etc.—to oneself, and to others, and to understand that others have beliefs, desires, intentions, and perspectives that are different from one's own.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_skills

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