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A social skill is any skill facilitating interaction and communication with others. Social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning such skills is called socialization.

[edit] Social skills among children

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It is vital that young children have adult supervision due to their limited social skills, which can impact their emotional development. Bullying and peer pressure occurs in young children who are not properly supervised by adults.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] In Behavior Therapy

To behaviourists, social skills are learned behavior that allow people to achieve social reinforcement and to avoid social punishment.^[1] According to Schneider & Bryne (1985), who conducted a meta-analysis of social skills training procedures (51 studies), operant conditioning procedures for training social skills had the largest effect size, followed by modeling, coaching, and social cognitive techniques. ^[2]

"Social Skills can be measured on about how you treat other people and how you react to them. It's a matter of dealing with the people around you. Different tests will help you to provide and tell what kind of personality you have towards others. If you are in doubt of your behavior, then you may be in touched with this kind of test. This would not help you totally, but this would serve as your guide in handling you personality towards the people whom your reacting with," (Ledesma, 2009).

[edit] See also

• Aggression Replacement Training
• Anti-social
• Emotional Intelligence
• People skills
• Social anxiety
• Social behavior
• Social cognition
• Social dynamics
• Social reality
• Social space
• Introversion and extroversion
• Systems intelligence
• Intercultural competence
• Metacommunicative competence
• Verbal abuse
• Computer widow

[edit] External links and references

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• Some Facts Psychologists Know About… SOCIAL SKILLS
• Teaching Social Skills
• Encouraging Social Skills in Young Children
• Information on Social Skills for Male College Students
• National Association of School Psychologists on Social Skills
• Strategies for teaching social skills to children
• Social skills of children

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