Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a framework for conceptualizing the role of emotional and social skills in effective leadership and management and provides preliminary suggestions for research and for the development of leader emotional and social skills. Design/methodology/approach – The paper generalizes a dyadic communications framework in order to describe the process of ...

background : life skills have different effects on various aspects of the mental health. social adjustment prepares adolescents for entering to the adulthood. on the other hand, humor and joking in the education is considered as a stress reducer and learning increaser. therefore, the present study conducted aimed to determine the effect of acquiring life skills through humor on the social adjus...

This paper reviews the literature examining social skills training (SST) programs for youth with AS/HFA, with an emphasis on critically evaluating efficacy and highlighting areas of future research. The review highlights the disparity between SST programs described in the extant literature, including lack of a universal definition of social skills, various levels of intensity and duration of tr...

Constant socio-economic and political transformations in the Russian Federation are reflected all spheres of human society. Within framework universal competition, main resource value is qualified labor, which based on advanced scientific knowledge, concepts achievements. Recently, designated problem has received increased attention from both state education system employers, why this work rele...

Current interpersonal models suggest that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by interpersonal difficulties. Individuals with SAD and fear of showing bodily symptoms also suffer from interpersonal problems, such as not being open and avoidance of expressing insecurity. Training in social skills could, therefore, be an effective approach.We examined the overall anddifferential effects...

abstract   introduction: self-esteem play essential roles in all of life aspects of peoples, particularly adolescents with intellectual disablity. therefore, emphasized on instruction of programs that led to improvement of self-esteem. this study was aimed to investigate of the effctiveness of social skills training on self-esteem of adolescents with intellectual disability in mazandaran provin...

1 Pneumococcal Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, 2 Allergy and Immune Disorders, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, 3 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 4 Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia, 5 Allergy and Immunology, Royal Chil...

OBJECTIVE This study explored and compared medical students' attitudes toward communication skills and empathic tendency before and after communication skills training. METHODS Fifty-nine first-year students voluntarily completed a questionnaire consisting of the Communication Skills Attitudes Scale and the Empathic Tendency Scale before and after training. K-means cluster analysis and Studen...

mice following surgical induction of osteoarthritis + Little CB, Barai A, Burkhardt D, Smith SM, Fosang AJ, Shah M, Thompson EW +Raymond Purves Laboratories, University of Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia; Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Royal Childrens Hospital, Parkville, Vic, Australia; St Vincents Institute of Medical Research, F...