Life Skills Education 📚

(A) Objectives

• Understand the concept, process, and practice of core life skills. 🌱
• Familiarize them with theories on the Life Skills Approach. 📖
• Identify the role of life skills for positive change and well-being. 🧠

(B) Syllabus

SECTION-A

1. Life Skills: Concept, importance, and core life skills: Social and negotiation; Thinking & coping skills; Cognitive problem-solving theory. 🤝
2. Life Skills Training: Concept and Four-Stage Skills Model, life skills especially for children at risk. Resilience: Concept, need, and importance. 💪

SECTION - B

1. The four pillars of education, life skills in the social context vis-à-vis media influence and dimensions in life skills. 📰
2. Life skills to deal with peer pressure, suicide, and substance abuse. Life skills and well-being: Educational implications. 🛡️

Activities (Any one of the following)

• Life skills training activities pertaining to any of the ten core life skills. 🎯

(C) Books Recommended

1. Baron. A. Robert, (2007). Psychology. New Delhi: Prentice-Hall of India Private Ltd. 📖
2. Baumgardner. R. Steve., Crothers. K. Marie. (2009). Positive Psychology. New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley India Pvt. Ltd. 📘
3. Carr Alan, (2004). Positive Psychology. New York: Routledge. 📚
4. Ciccarelli Saundra .K., Meyer Glen, (2007). Psychology. New Delhi: Pearson Education Inc. 📘
5. Hilgard, E, Atkinson, R C & Atkinson, R L (1976). Introduction to Psychology (6th Ed). New Delhi: IBH Publishing Co. Pvt Ltd. 📖

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2020