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• Communication and interpersonal skills. Skills needed to get on and work with other
people, and particularly to transfer and receive messages either in writing or
verbally.
• Creative thinking and critical thinking. This describes the ability to think in different
and unusual ways about problems, and find new solutions, or generate new ideas,
coupled with the ability to assess information carefully and understand its relevance.
• Self-awareness and empathy, which are two key parts of emotional intelligence.
They describe understanding yourself and being able to feel for other people as if
their experiences were happening to you.
• Resilience and ability to cope with problems, which describes the ability to recover
from setbacks, and treat them as opportunities to learn, or simply experiences.
• Study skills. These may include understanding how to organise yourself for study,
do research, and even write up a dissertation or thesis. These are not skills that
everyone will need, but writing skills are likely to be useful in a variety of careers
and jobs.
• Patience
• Good temper
Life Skills
•be unable stay away from the substance or stop the addictive behavior
•display a lack of self-control
•have an increased desire for the substance or behavior
•dismiss how their behavior may be causing problems
•lack an emotional response
Some behavior and emotional changes associated with addiction
include:
•unrealistic or poor assessment of the pros and cons associated with
using substances or behaviors
•blaming other factors or people for their problems
•increased levels of anxiety, depression, and sadness
•increased sensitivity and more severe reactions to stress
•trouble identifying feelings
•trouble telling the difference between feelings and the physical
sensations of one’s emotions
Sex education