Overview
- This book provides a conceptual basis of the field of social competence and social skills for students and professionals of psychology and other related areas
- It explains how to plan and implement social skills training, which can be useful in different settings, such as clinical, educational, organizational and communitarian ones
- It presents both the conceptual foundations and practical guidelines needed to plan and conduct individual and group interventions to promote social competence
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is a theoretical and practical guide in the field of social skills and social competence, based on decades of experience gained by the authors as researchers and professionals in psychology. The book was written for students and professionals who are involved in some way improving individuals´ social skills in different contexts, such as clinical, educational, organizational and community settings. The authors present the conceptual foundations, procedures, techniques, strategies and practical guidelines for planning and conducting effective programs aimed to social skills and social competence.
In the first part of the book, key concepts and fundamentals on the area are presented, as well as the basic behavioral classes of social skills and their non-verbal and paralinguistic components. The authors also propose a portfolio for the assessment of clients’ social skills deficits and strengths to thereby define the aims and procedures of interventions.The second partfocuses on guidelines to select and use procedures and techniques for promoting social skills and social competence. The authors present experiential activities that they created in previous interventions and that were tested in their research, showing evidence of effectiveness. Suggestions on how to evaluate participants’ repertoires and how to use these ideas in intervention planning are also described.Finally, in the third part of the book, the authors go further presenting practical guidelines for planning and conducting programs and sessions to promote social skills and social competence, in either group or individual settings.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Competence and Social Skills
Book Subtitle: A Theoretical and Practical Guide
Authors: Zilda A. P. Del Prette, Almir Del Prette
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70127-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70126-0Published: 05 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70129-1Published: 06 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70127-7Published: 04 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 178
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Child and School Psychology, Psychotherapy