Social Skills
Social skills training (SST) is based on the idea that skills are learned and therefore can be taught to those that lack them.
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Forms of mental disorders are exacerbated by lack of social awareness, and can be cured or alleviated by means of training of social skills. There are two possible sequences of events.
(1) Failure of social competence is primary, leaning to rejection and social isolation, which in turn produces disturbed mental states.
(2) Other kinds of mental disturbance affect all areas of behavior, including social performance; social inadequacy results in rejection and isolation, thus adding to the original sources of stress leading to deterioration.
(1) Failure of social competence is primary, leaning to rejection and social isolation, which in turn produces disturbed mental states.
(2) Other kinds of mental disturbance affect all areas of behavior, including social performance; social inadequacy results in rejection and isolation, thus adding to the original sources of stress leading to deterioration.
This model posits that social competence is based on a set of three component skills (Tenhula & Bellack, 2008):
(1) social perception, or receiving skills;
(2) social cognition, or processing skills;
(3) behavioral response, or expressive skills.
(1) social perception, or receiving skills;
(2) social cognition, or processing skills;
(3) behavioral response, or expressive skills.