SKILLS FOR HELPING

PROFESSIONALS
HS3-HUMAN SERVICES
Defining the following terms

1. Skills
2. Helping
3. Professional
What do we mean by skills?

a) The ability to use one's

knowledge effectively and
readily in execution or performance.

b) Coordination especially in the

execution of learned physical
tasks.

c) A learned power of doing

something competently

d) A developed aptitude or
ability.
What are the 3 types of Skills?

 FUNCTIONAL
SKILLS
Functional skills are abilities or talents that
are inherited at birth and developed through
experience and learning.
 SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS
mastering a
Are those having to do with
specific body of information
related to a particular type of work, profession,
occupation, educational, or leisure activity.
  SELF-MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Are those characteristics that help

an employee to feel and be more
productive in the workplace. Such skills
as problem solving, resisting stress,
communicating clearly, managing
time, strengthening memory, and
exercising often are all key examples of
self-management skills
 What is helping?

a.) to give assistance or support.

b.) to provide with something that is useful or necessary in

achieving an end.
What professional means?

having the qualities that you connect with

trained and skilled people, such as
effectiveness, skill, organization, and seriousness
of manner.
 A type of prosocial behavior in
which one or more individuals act
to improve the status or well-being
of one or more others.
Helping in
psychology means? Although helping behavior is
typically in response to a small
request that involves little
individual risk, all helping behavior
incurs some cost to the individual
providing it.
4 Types Of Prosocial Behavior?

 Egoism
 Altruism
 Collectivism
 Principlism
PROSOCIAL
BEHAVIOR
• defined as voluntary behavior
intended to benefit another
(Eisenberg et al., 2006).

• characterized by acts of
kindness, compassion, and
helping behaviors, which many
consider to be one of the finest
qualities of human nature
 HELPING
PROFESSIONS

•According to American Psychological

Association (APA), Helping Professions
are jobs or positions that offer health and
education services to individuals and the
community. These roles often exist in
psychology, psychiatry, counseling,
medicine, nursing, social work, physical
therapy, teaching, and education.
What is a helping profession?

•A profession that nurtures the growth or addresses the

problems of a person's physical, psychological,
intellectual, emotional or spiritual well-being, including
medicine, nursing, psychotherapy, psychological
counseling, social work, education, life coaching and
ministry.
 What are relationship-building skills?

•RELATIONSHIP-BUILDING SKILLS are a combination of soft skills that

a person applies to connect with others and form positive relationships.

•RELATIONSHIP-BUILDING SKILLS are essential for getting along with

coworkers, contributing to a team and building an understanding between
yourself and other.
Examples of
relationship-building • Interpersonal skills
skills • Non-verbal communication skills
• Verbal communication skills
• Listening skills
• Empathy
• Emotional intelligence
• Rapport
DEVELOPING A
HELPING
RELATIONSHIP