---- 100 POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY LIFESKILLS
---- 100 POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY LIFESKILLS TAUGHT FOR
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHARACTER
THE CHARACTER EDUCATION MOVEMENT
IS MISSING THE ENORMOUS CONTRIBUTIONS
OF OPTIMUM LIFESKILLS BY THE SOCIAL SCIENCES.
Here they are -- 100 OPTIMUM PSYCHO-SOCIAL LIFESKILLS
IDENTIFIED IN THE PAST 100 YEARS
All the following skills are discussed (some in depth,
some briefly) in Darrell Franken's psychology textbook,
Here they are......LIFESKILLS and ORIGINATOR OF THE SKILL
or well-known user/promoter (Arranged alphabetically)
Active Listening (Ch. 14) Thomas Gordon
Acceptance (unconditional positive regard) (empathy)
(Ch. 11) Carl Rogers
Affirmation (Self) (Ch. 8) Emil Coue'
Aggression Replacement Training (Ch. 4, 18) B. Glick & A. Goldstein
Assertiveness Training (Ch. 4, 6, 12, 15) Wolpe, Alberti & Emmons
Autogenic Training (relaxation) (Ch. 5) Johannes H. Schultz
Behavioral desensitization (Ch. 2) John B. Watson
Belief becomes biology (Ch. 18) Norman Cousins
Bibliotherapy (read books) (Ch. 6, 9) Currently, Gloria Steinem
Biofeedback (Ch. 5, 18) Elmer and Alyce Green
Catharsis (Ch. 2, 4) Freud and Breuer
Cognitive restructuring (Ch. 6) General term for learning
Communication Training (Ch. 12, 14) (See Social Skills Traning)
Compensation (Ch. 4) (one of the defense mechanisms)
Conversation skills training (Ch. 14) (unknown inividual)
Confession, Owning (Ch. 5) (Dawn of history consensus)
Feelings (owning/sharing) (Ch. 2, 5, 9, 14) Psychs. & Marriage Encounter
Focusing (Ch. 2) Eugene T. Gendlin
Forgiveness Skills Training (Ch. 16) (No major spokesperson at present)
(Sub-skills: confrontation, remorse, apology, reparation)
Free Association (Ch. 3) Sigmund Freud
Humor (Ch. 4) (no specific person)
Hypnosis (Self) (Ch. 3, 12) Martin Charcot
Imagery (imagination,hoping, goals) (Ch. 8, 12, 18) Shamans & J. Achterberg
Intensive Journal (written catharsis) (Ch 9) Ira Progoff
Negotiation (Ch. 4, 15) (Became legal for unions with Wagner Act in 1935)
Networking (Ch. 10) Earliest form was the extended family
Operant Conditioning (Ch. 12) B.F. Skinner
Problem-Solving Skills Training (PSST)(Ch. 15) Alan Kazdin
Psychoanalysis (not self-help) (Ch. 2, 5) Sigmund Freud
Refuting irrational ideas (Ch. 2, 5, 6, 9, 12) Albert Ellis, Maxie Maultsby
Reframing (Ch. 2) Popularized by Jay Haley, et al.
Relaxation exercises (Ch. 5, 12, 18) Edmond Jacobson
Self-actualization (Ch. 6) Abraham Maslow
Self-disclosure of feelings (Ch. 2, 5, 7) Sidney Jourard
Self-hypnosis (Ch. 12) (Ancient)
Self-talk (Ch. 6, 12, 18) Albert Ellis
Social Skills Training (Ch. 11, 15) (Many)
Question-asking, suggestion-making, verbal support, grooming,
smiling, greeting, joining, conversing, sharing, complimenting,
all as part of Communication and/or Social SkillsTraining.
Stage-Step (8) analysis for trust (Ch. 5) Erik Erikson
Stroking (Ch. 2, 5, 9, 17) Eric Berne, Claude Steiner
Support groups (Ch. 2, 3, 5, 18) Alcoholics Anonymous
Systematic Desensitization (Ch. 5, 6) Howard Wolpe
Time Out (Ch. 11) (Unknown)
Transactional Analysis (Ch. 17) Berne, Steiner, James, Jongeward, Harris
(Sub-skills of Positive Stoking and re-scripting)
Visualization (See imagery)
Written Rational Self-Analysis (Ch. 9, 12) Maxie C. Maultsby, Jr.
Writing about one's feelings (Ch. 2, 9) Ira Progoff
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION SKILLS (below) found in Psychlit 1983-1991,
(computer compact disk) Published by the American Psychological Association
Aversive conditioning
Biofeedback monitoring
Checklist monitoring
Cognitive restructuring
Communication skills
Contracting (social skill)
Differential reinforcement
Flooding (in vivo exposure)
Goal restructuring
Guided Imagery
Guilt induction
Hypnosis
Mediation
Medicine (pharmacological)
Meditation
Modeling (finding one)
Multiple strategies
Nutrition
Performance feedback (Daily
Report Card) (Praise)
Positive reinforcement
Punishment
Progressive Relaxation
Rehearsal (Role Play)
Reward (see Pos. Reinf.)
Self-evaluation
Self-instruction (self-talk)
Self-monitoring (camcorder)
Self-recording (cassette)
Self-rewarding
Shaping
Social support
Subliminal programming
Systematic desensitization
Time out
Thought-stopping, distract
Token reinforcement
Variable interval
Reinforcement
Verbalization of feelings
Withdrawing of attention
Yoga