SOCIAL COMPETENCE AND CREATIVITY GUIDE, APPENDIX AND ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK

Maria Goranova

PhoenixKM

SOCIAL COMPETENCE AND CREATIVITY GUIDE

• Designed for professionals working with people with disabilities

• Trainers/Teachers of PwDs

• Resource tutors/ psychologists /social workers

• Parents /family of PwDs

• Concise ( 47 pages)

• Easy to understand text building the main

• Constructs in social competence and creativity

SOCIAL COMPETENCE AND CREATIVITY GUIDE

Contents

• What is social competence?

• Why do we need a social competence?

• How can we develop social competences and

creativity?

• Glossary

• References

• Communication skills

• Co-operating skills

• Abilities to solve interpersonal problems

• Self-esteem

• Self-control

• Assertiveness

• Creativity

APPENDIX 1. PRACTICES AND EXCERCISES

• 215 pages of exercises, tests and practices

• Easy to understand language

• Application of the learning theory of Problem-Based

Learning (PBL),

• Designed for people with disabilities at three levels;

3 LEVELS OF DIFFICULTY

• First-level– exercises with highest difficulty, designed for beneficiaries

without any learning difficulties and the trainers themselves.

• Second level - designed for people with disabilities with basic social

skills and almost no learning difficulties.

• Third level - designed for beneficiaries with learning difficulties.

First-level (no flag)

• Exercises with highest difficulty, designed for beneficiaries who can reflect on their own conditions, experience and behaviour.

• These exercises are designed for the trainers themselves.

• They support to develop social competence, to experience the effects of the development of social competence which will contribute to more effective organisation of the learning process and communication with beneficiaries;

SECOND LEVELExercises designed for people with disabilities with basic social skills and no learning difficulties (people who do not possess a high degree of reflection on their own conditions, experiences and behaviours).

THIRD LEVEL

Exercises with the lowest difficulty, designed for beneficiaries with mild learning difficulties (who have no reflection on their own conditions and behaviour and experience difficulty in achieving more complex goals).

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

• Initiating of discussions on various topics;

• Listening;

• Expressing of one's own

emotions according to the context;

• Empathy;

• Acceptance;

• Trust;

• Self-disclosure;

CO-OPERATINGSKILLS

• Accepting another's point of view

• Recognition of the achievements and the merit of

others;

• Gratitude;

• Following rules, instructions, guidelines;

• Foreseeing and solving problems;

• Engaging with prosocial behaviours /encouraging,

sharing, relief, support, assistance.../.

ABILITIES TO SOLVE INTERPERSONAL CONFLICTS

• Defining the problem;

• Generating of possible solutions;

• Evaluation of the solutions;

• Selection of a best solution;

• Applying the solution;

• Evaluation of the results.

SELF - ESTEEM

• Placement of the failure in the context of the

future successes;

• Not overestimating the importance of the

failure;

• Focussing on success and linking the success

with own abilities and efforts;

• Orientation to own strengths;

• Acceptance of the negative feedback /

criticism without negative emotions and

withdrawal;

SELF - CONTROL • Making efforts in solving difficult

tasks;

• Resistance to temptations;

• Preliminary considering of the

responses and the behaviour;

• Regulation of the negative emotions.

ASSERTIVENESS • Making direct requests;

• Rejecting ungrounded demands;

• Standing up for rights and justice;

• Making a decision without

submitting to pressure from others.

CREATIVITY • To invent new and interesting

things.

• Making surprises.

• Doing beautiful things.

ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK

• Very easy text

• Very short texts

• Many images

• Image and text exercises

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF BEING SOCIALLY COMPETENT?

I will have more friends.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF BEING SOCIALLY COMPETENT?

I will be able to do things with others.

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