Goldstein and Pollock's Social Skills Training Program
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from Goldstein and Pollock (1988b)
This skills training program is presented as an extension of
cognitive training program presented earlier. It gathers the strategies
What is taught in each of the 6 sessions lasting one and a half hours that has the
training. Taken from Goldstein and Goldstein (1990).
Session 1
Listen. Encounters with people - introducing yourself and introducing others.
Start a conversation.
End a conversation.
Work together to keep an activity ongoing.
Session 2
Ask questions appropriately.
Doing favors properly.
Seek help from colleagues.
Seek help from adults.
Follow the guidelines.
Session 3
Collaborate.
- Interpret the body language.
- Successfully playing a game.
Session 4
- Suggest an activity to others.
- Work cooperatively.
- Offer help.
Session 5
Say thank you.
Give a compliment.
Accept a compliment.
Self-reinforce.
Session 6
Apologize.
Understand the impact of your own behavior on others.
Understanding the behavior of others.
The following are the steps used to teach each of the
strategies.
Strategy: Listen
Steps
Look at the face of the person you are speaking with - eye contact.
2. Sit still.
3. Pay attention to what is being said.
Wait your turn to speak.
Strategy: Meetings with new people Introduction to yourself
Steps
Look and respond to the other person's greeting.
2. Decide if you want to meet with the other person.
3. Choose the moment of the meeting.
4. Get closer to the other person.
5.Say your name.
Wait for the person to tell you their name. Ask them their name if they don't.
dice.
7. Tell the other person something about yourself.
Strategy: Introduce them to others
Steps
Look and respond to the other person's greeting.
2.Tell her the name of a person and she will tell you the name of another person.
3. Tell him the name of a second person and he will tell you the name of the first.
person.
4. Say something that both people have in common or that may interest them.
Strategy: Conversations
Steps
Choose someone to talk to.
Show interest.
3. Decide when to talk to him/her.
4. Start by speaking to him in a friendly manner.
5. Continue on the matter.
6. Listen to what other people say.
7. Ask questions.
Strategy: End a conversation
Steps
1. Decide why you want to end a conversation.
2. Decide when to end the conversation.
3. Choose what you are going to say.
4. Wait until another person pauses to speak to them.
5.Say what you have to say to end the conversation on a friendly note.
Strategy: Self-reinforcement
Steps
Decide if you deserve a prize.
2. Make a list of the different ways you can reward yourself.
3. Choose the best way you have to reward yourself.
Reward yourself as soon as possible.
Strategy: Ask questions; ask for help; ask for a favor
Steps
1. Decide what to ask.
2. Decide whom to ask.
3. Plan how to ask properly.
Choose the right moment.
5. Get the person's attention.
Tell the person what you need in a friendly manner.
7. Show gratitude.
Strategy: Ask for help in the face of a problem
Steps
1. Decide what the problem is and whether you need help.
2. Decide what help you can ask for.
3. Decide who you want to ask for help.
4. Tell that person about your problem and ask for help.
Strategy: Follow the instructions
Steps
1. Listen to what is being said to you.
2. Ask all the questions you need until you clearly understand it.
3. Repeat the instructions to yourself.
4. Complete the steps in the given order.
Strategy: Collaborate
Steps
Decide if you need to do something to collaborate.
Decide with whom.
Choose the best time to do it.
4. Offer your collaboration honestly.
Strategy: Interpret body language
Steps
Look at the person's face and observe it.
2. Observe the facial features of the subject.
3. Identify their feelings towards the subject.
4. Observe the subject's body position.
5. Identify the subject's feelings.
If you are not very sure, exchange information verbally.
Strategy: Play a game
Steps
1. Review the rules of the game.
2. Understand the rules of the game.
3. Decide who starts, who goes second, etc.
Wait your turn.
5. Think about what you are playing.
6. When the game ends, say something positive about it.
Strategy: Suggest an activity
Steps
1. Decide the activity you want to do.
2. Decide who you can do it with.
3. Decide on someone you want to do it with.
4. Decide what you are going to say.
5. Decide when you are going to tell him/her.
Say it in a friendly way.
7. If they answer no, ask 'What would you like to do?'.
Strategy: Work cooperatively
Steps
1. Decide what you want to do.
Decide how you want to work.
Define your position.
4. Listen while others present their positions.
5. Observe the other person's body language.
6. Act with consideration.
Strategy: Offer help
Steps
Think if someone needs help.
2. Decide if someone wants help.
3. Think about what you can do.
4. Decide how you are going to tell him that you want to help him.
Choose the best moment to offer help.
Offer him your help.
Help the person.
Strategy: Say thank you
Steps
1.Decide if someone has done something that you want to thank them for.
2. Decide how to do it.
3. Choose the best way to say thank you.
Choose the best moment to thank them.
Thank someone in a friendly way.
6. Explain to the person why you want to thank them.
Strategy: Make a promise
Steps
1. Decide what you want to say.
2. Decide how you want to say it.
3. Choose the right moment to do it.
4. Choose a place to tell him/her.
5. Give the compliment in a friendly manner.
Strategy: Accept an obligation
Steps
1. Decide if they are giving you a compliment.
2. Respond to the compliment.
Thank you.
Strategy: Apologize
Steps
1. Decide if you need to apologize for something.
2. Haz una lista de diversas formas de disculparte.
3. Choose the best way to do it.
Choose the best moment to do it.
5. Choose the best place to apologize.
6. Apologize in an honorable way.
Strategy: Understand the impact of your own behavior on others
Steps
1. Decide which behaviors are important to you.
2. Control those behaviors.
Define your position.
4. Think about what others might feel.
5. Think about what others might say.
6. Help others by putting yourself in their shoes.
Strategy: Demonstrate the ability to understand the behavior of others
Steps
Listen to what other people are saying.
2. Also, observe what they do.
3. Listen to the reasons that people give and what they feel.
4. Choose the best reason.
5. Decide whether you need to say or do something, for example, suggest another activity, etc.
Keep going.
