Life Skills Education for Children and Adolescents (Life Skills Training) Part 1

Life Skills Education for Children and Adolescents (Life Skills Training)
Life skills can be defined as abilities that enable humans to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of life. They may also be called psychosocial skills, as they are psychological in nature and include thinking and behavioral processes. Others define life skills as behavioral, cognitive, or interpersonal skills that enable individuals to succeed in various areas of life
Research suggests that developing life skills may help reduce drug, alcohol, and tobacco use. It may also reduce aggression and violence. In addition to these bigger outcomes, life skills can just make life a bit easier. When we can regulate our emotions effectively and develop enduring, supportive relationships, we’re happier and healthier. This is why developing life skills is key not only to being successful in life, it’s key for our health and well-being.
According to several key organizations including UNICEF, UNESCO, and WHO, the following are the basic life skills (​​Prajapati, Sharma, & Sharma, 2017):
Self-awareness
Critical thinking
Creative thinking
Decision making
Problem Solving
Effective communication
Interpersonal relationships
Empathy
Coping with stress
Coping with emotion
Of course, these skills overlap, with each of them aiding and supporting the others. There may also be other life skills and there may be subcategories of life skills within each of these basic life skill types.
(WHO) defines Life skills as the abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life.
Life skill has been classified into three broad categories:
• Thinking skills: Thinking skills are the skill that enhances the logical faculty of the brain using an analytical ability, thinking creatively and critically, and developing problem-solving skills and improving decision-making abilities.
• Social skills: Social skills include interpersonal skills, communication skills, leadership skills, management skills, advocacy skills, co-operation and team building skills, etc.
• Emotional skills: Emotional skills, involves, knowing and being comfortable with oneself. Thus, self-management, including managing/coping with feelings, emotions, stress and resisting peer and family pressure
A relevant and proper implementation of life skill education is a need of an hour, for today’s society. Imparting life skills education to the students, can be helpful as it specifically addresses the needs of children, helps in motivating, providing practical, cognitive, emotional, social and self-management skills for life adjustments. On the whole, life skills education, have found to be an effective psychosocial intervention strategy for promoting positive social, and mental health of adolescents which plays an important role in all aspects such as strengthening coping strategies and developing self-confidence and emotional intelligence, as well as enhancing critical thinking, problem solving and decision making skills as has been well documented in the aforementioned studies. Thus, there
is, significance and importance of life skills education to be integrated into the regular school curriculum and given on a daily basis by a life skills trainer/ teacher/counsellor to enhance the mental health of students, equip them with better adapted skills to face the challenges of changing life situations and empower them to become fully functioning contributors to the host society in particular and the world in general.

[@SusanWachira-m6c]

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[@fetleworkyigremachew1345]

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[@SureshBadaMath]

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[@agribizindia]

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[@kuchhuschannel9261]

Beautifully explained sir

[@SureshBadaMath]

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[@archanashome6216]

Thank you,very much needed in the school Curricullum.Children now especially in the visual world are the main sufferers.Need to help all getting affected.

[@SureshBadaMath]

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[@karanamramana8822]

Tx a lot Sir. It was quite useful, even to train my students. 🎉🎉🎉

[@ashleshanarkhede6559]

V informative. .. All your videos are helping me to understand d topic.. Very systematically u r explaining sir.. N covering all aspects of topic ..

[@SureshBadaMath]

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[@SureshBadaMath]

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[@radharanichakraborty5293]

Sir excellent presentation, need more videos in this topic in current changing social senerio.

[@SureshBadaMath]

Thank you very much for your feedback and suggestions

[@sravanikalla2261]

Nice sir

[@sandeepramakrishna2824]

Skills is very important it is like screen play in movie even though there might be script but making into action is important

[@SureshBadaMath]

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[@danielharris8917]

Yes!

[@deepakkotnala1658]

Your voice sounds good

[@SureshBadaMath]

Thanks

[@kuchhuschannel9261]

As you said NEP has implemented life skills training as well in school curriculum.starting from class 1 we can see the books on value education

[@nidaa999]

Thankyou so much sir

[@SureshBadaMath]

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[@gopalmadan1783]

Marvelous.the way you expressed was mind boggling sir.i am doing the same sir.

[@SureshBadaMath]

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[@prithvirajd1875]

sir.very informative. as you are professor in prestigious institution please add books / material to increase further study

[@fetleworkyigremachew1345]

I want take life skill training course,How can I get? Thanks coach

[@SureshBadaMath]

One need to engage in training No amount of training or reading or watching video will help Its skills transferring techniques, so you need to engage in life skills coaching to parents or students under supervision of a good coach

[@ededetiko]

Please sir I was a given a homework to write on the topic 'The Impact Of Skills On The Education Of a Child

[@samanthakendi4689]

Question:What are the factors impending in the development of life skills in young adults?

[@kumarkancharlapalli1131]

Sir ,iam 1st year pg MD psychiatry , a small request sir, plzzz make videos on FISH psychopathology total book sir ,as topics ,iam facing difficulty in understanding the FISH psychopathology ,I hope there are so many students like me facing difficulty in reading and understanding FISH psychopathology, plzzz sir

[@SureshBadaMath]

Please check this playlist on my channel titled - Basics of Psychiatry kzbin.info/aero/PLldEapv0nG30x-ikhxOj55vZKerM9YbJ4

[@kumarkancharlapalli1131]

@@SureshBadaMath thanks for replying sir, it seems all externals are asking exact fish psychopathology definitions ,even examples also sir, ,I felt like your videos based on synopsis,and CTP STANDARD BOOKS ,,thank u sir ,last week I learnt CBT basics .

[@swethamaddipathi3475]

Sir, are you teaching life skills online.

[@nazmarahim191]

Hello sir we want to introduce life skills in our school kindly tell how to start

[@SureshBadaMath]

Please checkout this video - Role of Schools (Teachers) in Teaching Life Skills kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6iwqZhur752fck

[@SureshBadaMath]

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