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The social skills workshop successfully ends in 11 educational centers in Dénia, La Xara and Jesús Pobre

15 March 2023 - 16: 42

The Social Skills workshop organized by the Department of Addiction Prevention through the UPCCA (Unit for Community Prevention in Addictive Behaviors), in collaboration with the Associated Center of the UNED in Dénia, has finished this year's edition reaching a total of 806 schoolchildren from 11 educational centers in Dénia, La Xara and Jesús Pobre. As usual, it has been taught to 6th grade students and, as a novelty for this 2022/2023 academic year, it has also been extended to fourth-year groups.

The workshop has been developed in two parts: the first, given in the months of October and November 2022, and the second, which began in February of this year and ended yesterday, March 14.

The facilitators of the workshop are the pedagogue Lorena Pérez and the psychologists Cristina Cano and Beatriz Gonzalo, all of them experts in Social Skills and professional collaborators of the UNED of Dénia.

The objective of this workshop is for students to acquire, develop and/or improve competencies related to social skills, providing them with tools that allow them to have adequate interaction in different social contexts, as well as facilitating behavior control in different situations. in which they can be found throughout life. The intervention is carried out at this age because they are in pre-adolescence, subject to an important life change and about to start the secondary education cycle, joining the institute, where they will find new friends, influences and pressures.

Prevention of Addictions has extended this year the activity to the groups of 4th grade

The purpose is that students, through games, visualization, analysis and reflection on real situations, work on social skills to improve them in their relationships and interactions, both with peers and with other people; as well as learn better handling and management of conflictive situations. Attention is paid, above all, to concepts such as self-esteem, empathy, assertiveness, decision-making, influence and peer pressure.

It intervenes with a dynamic and motivating methodology that favors group participation with the use of audiovisual material and role-playing dynamics to promote the active participation of students.

At the end of each session, the teachers complete a questionnaire in order to assess the impact of the activity and its practical utility. The responses indicate that it is essential for teachers to work on social skills to help students in their development and give a high score and value to the realization of this workshop.

Throughout the course, the Councilor for Addiction Prevention, Melani Ivars, has attended different workshop sessions to see the dynamics of this activity and how they impregnate student learning.

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