Life Skills Development for Psychological Competency

- a person's ability to deal effectively

Human Enhancement with the demands and challenges of
everyday life, maintain a state of
Lesson 1: Life Skills
mental well-being, and demonstrate
Development for Human this in an adaptive and positive
Enhancement |Your Image and behavior, while interacting with others
Its Impact and his / her culture and environment.
Skill Importance of Life Skills
• the ability to use one’s knowledge • to develop ethics
effectively and readily in the • to remove stage fear
execution of performance • to become self-confident
• encompasses the knowledge, • to adopt new skills
competencies and abilities to • for self-branding
perform operational tasks • to showcase hidden talent
• developed through life and work • to evaluate and choose the best
experiences and they can also be among options
learned through study
• to take the best life-changing
• the learned ability to act with decisions
determined results with good • facilitates creative thinking and an
execution often within a given
innovative approach
amount of time, energy, or both
• can often be divided into domain- The 21st Century Life Skills
general and domain-specific skills • flexibility
• initiative
Human Skill
• social skills
• the sum total of talent, knowledge,
• productivity
ability attitude of the individual or
• leadership
the total work in an organization
put to productive use
Human Development
Life Skills • centers on strengthening the
attributes and abilities that help
• the skills you need to make the
people flourish in life
most out of life
• the process of enlarging people's
• transferable between jobs, life
freedoms and opportunities and
events and situations
improving their well-being
• the abilities and positive behaviors
• the real freedom ordinary people
that enable individuals to deal
have to decide who to be, what to
effectively with the demands and
do, and how to live
challenges of everyday life (WHO)
• Some personal life skills include:
Why Do We Study Human Growth
o Cooperation
and Development?
o Curiosity
o Perseverance • offers a wealth of value for
o Communication personal and professional growth
o Adaptability and understanding.
• capabilities that enables us to
adapt positively to the changes in Benefits of Studying Human
the environment Development
• can also be called as • To gain a better
Psychosocial Competency understanding of one’s own life
experiences. This can help people
 personally reach an understanding very positive, giving a person
of what childhood events shaped confidence in their thoughts and
their adulthood. actions, or negative, making a
• To gain knowledge of how social person doubtful of their capabilities
context impacts development. and ideas. (Mountain State
This knowledge can be invaluable Centers for Independent Living)
for professionals like teachers as • the most basic form an internalized
they gain a deeper understanding mental picture/idea you have of
of their students. yourself.
• To help others understand and • the impression you have of
contextualize the ups and downs yourself that forms a collective
of life. This helps therapists and representation of your assets and
psychologists better aid their liabilities.
clients in self-discovery.
• To understand how societal Lesson 1.2: The Elements and
change can support growth and Dimensions of Self-Image
development. This understanding
helps decision-makers in schools Your Image
change the educational culture for • a reproduction or mental picture of
the better. you as seen by others
• To become a more effective • the way you look, the way you
auditor, human resource, or speak, the way you behave.
business leader in many
different industries. Elements of a Person’s Self-Image
Understanding human • The way a person perceives or
development deeply and in context thinks of him/herself.
has many professional benefits • The way a person interprets others’
that can lead to greater insight. perceptions (or what he thinks
• To support the physical and others think) of him/herself.
mental health of • The way a person would like to be
individuals throughout their life (his ideal self).
span. Professionals like doctors,
nurses, and therapists must Six Dimensions of a Person’s Self-
understand human growth and Image
development to better support their
• Physical dimension: how a
clients.
person evaluates his or her
appearance
Human Enhancement
• Psychological dimension: how a
• used to describe to improve human person evaluates his or her
capabilities beyond what is personality
necessary to be able to sustain in • Intellectual dimension: how a
the demand of the workforce
person evaluates his or her
• the development of the inner and intelligence
outer personality of the person • Skills dimension: how a person
evaluates his or her social and
Self-Image
technical skills
• the idea, conception, or mental • Moral dimension: how a person
image one has of oneself evaluates his or her values and
(Random House Dictionary) principles
• Self-image is how you perceive • Sexual dimension: how a person
yourself. It is a number of self- feels he or she fits into society’s
impressions that have built up over masculine/feminine norms
time. These self-images can be