Life Skills

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Life Skills

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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.

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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.

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Categories of Key Life Skills

• Life Skills can be broadly categorized into two
  types-
• Thinking Skills -gt Relate to reflection at the
  personal level.
• Social Skills -gtRelate to interpersonal skills
  and do not necessarily depend logical
  thinking.And further these categories consisit
  of too many life skills which are needed for
  learning assertive behavior and negotiating
  effectively.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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