What is social skills training?

Social skills training is a type of therapy, often used in conjunction with other therapeutic techniques, aimed at helping people with personality disorders better relating to other people and managing social situations. Although it can be used for direct attempts to treat problems such as social phobia and shyness, other disorders such as alcohol addiction, paranoid schizophrenia and depression, can also be directly or indirectly treated with this type of training. Social skills training usually consists in modeling or demonstrations of video typical social behavior followed by playing roles and possible subsequent sessions to ensure that behavior is after the correct acquisition and practicing outside therapy. Social phobia and shyness are two particularly common types of personality disorders treated with this type of training, although therapists must be careful not to meet the problem. Most forms of training social skills begin by modeling generally accepted behavior in social situations, BUd through a video or demonstration of a therapist.

Generally accepted social behavior, such as verbal recognition when someone is talking to him, eye contact during interviews, and a "little conversation" is discussed and explored during social skills training. The therapist usually distributes social interactions into small parts and looks at where one may need improvement, and then starts with one problem at the same time, while the process is slowly performing. Social skills training can be carried out in children and adults, and it has been shown to be quite useful in children with learning disabilities or other disabilities to be socially adept and avoid social withdrawal.

For adults with Disorders, such as alcohol or social phobia addiction, social skills training can often be used with other types of therapy to try to prevent isolation and loneliness that can worsen such problems. For exampleAlcohol addiction would probably focus on how to act in social situations without drinking alcohol or how to avoid patterns of behavior that have led to drink in the past. To solve shyness, this type of training can help increase social interactions and build self -confidence, leading to further social development. Following the training of social skills is often important to ensure that a person from therapy continues to benefit and has successfully generalized the techniques acquired in therapeutic sessions into the real world.