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Social Skills Training?

Jenny Butterfly

In my reading around and searching, I invariably come across paragraphs or even whole chapters that refer to the development of social skills and even training programmes to help with this process.  It's mentioned a LOT.  And yet, if I search for any such programme or coaching locally, I can't find any!

Am i looking in the wrong places?  Does such a thing actually exist or is it for each of us to piece together?  Would a formal coaching or training programme be of much help anyway?  What's the evidence base?

My 26 year old son often refers to his difficulties with social skills and would really like some help.  Where might I direct him? 

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  • In my forties, and through an unexpected turn of events, I attended a basic level 1 interpersonal skills course at our local college.  It was meant as an introduction to counselling but could also be a standalone module and once I went (thinking, well, it's only a few weeks so I might be able to manage) I really felt I'd discovered something amazing.  

    Away from the hard-faced world of office life and the bookkeeping and accountancy courses I'd struggled with, here was something that actually grabbed me.  A course with the central tenets of empathy, genuineness and unconditional positive regard.  Why had nobody told me about this before?  

    45 years of age and coming home to self.  I really needed that course 30 years earlier.  

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  • In my forties, and through an unexpected turn of events, I attended a basic level 1 interpersonal skills course at our local college.  It was meant as an introduction to counselling but could also be a standalone module and once I went (thinking, well, it's only a few weeks so I might be able to manage) I really felt I'd discovered something amazing.  

    Away from the hard-faced world of office life and the bookkeeping and accountancy courses I'd struggled with, here was something that actually grabbed me.  A course with the central tenets of empathy, genuineness and unconditional positive regard.  Why had nobody told me about this before?  

    45 years of age and coming home to self.  I really needed that course 30 years earlier.  

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