Social Skills

Building good relationships with other people can greatly reduce stress and anxiety in your life. Actually, improving your social backing is associated to better mental health in general, since having good friends can act as a “safeguard” for feelings of anxiety and low mood. This is especially true if you are socially anxious and desperately want to make friends but are either too fearful to do so or are unsure about how to reach out to others. As a result of these anxious feelings, you may even be avoiding social situations.  It is important practice to develop strong communications skills that would increase the chance for successful relationships.

Social Skills Training Should:

  • Focus on facilitating the desirable behavior as well as eliminating the undesirable behavior.
  • Emphasize the learning, performance, generalization, and maintenance of appropriate behaviors through modeling, coaching, and role-playing. It is also crucial to provide immediate performance feedback.
  • Employ primarily positive strategies and add punitive strategies only if the positive approach is unsuccessful and the behavior is of a serious and/or dangerous nature.
  • Provide training and practice opportunities in a wide range of settings with different groups and individuals in order to encourage students to generalize new skills to multiple, real life situations.
  • Draw on assessment strategies, including functional assessments of behavior, to identify those children in need of more intensive interventions as well as target skills for instruction.
  • Look to enhance social skills by increasing the frequency of an appropriate behavior in a particular situation. This should take place in "normal" environments to address the naturally occurring causes and consequences.

"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood."

-RALPH NICHOLS

Appointment Request

Contact Us

Phone: (313) 614-9498
Fax: (313) 930-6311
greg@theartofrelationships.org

The Art of Relationships
21751 W. Eleven Mile Road
Suite 204
Southfield, MI 48076

The Relationship Guide

The Relationship Guide prides itself at helping you get the “Total Connection” in your love life. This is where the mind, heart, body and soul are intertwined into the relationship you’ve always desired! I am flattered to be recognized as Detroit’s Love Guru, and have written this book as a follow up or “improvement” to my first book: Seize That Total Connection. Since I am all about constant growth and improvement, I wanted to give readers even more tools and thought provoking insights to help improve their love lives. This book is dedicated to all of those who crave having a terrific, romantic, loving and passionate relationship! It’s for the married, cohabiting, or in a new relationship. PLUS this is for the single people with hopes in finding and maintaining a fantastic and sexually fulfilling relationship!
Greg has written articles for, or has been a contributing expert in the following publications: 

Helpful Links For Social Skills

  • NASP Center - Information on improving social skills to help promote positive behavior, academic success, and school safety.
  • VeryWell - Great overview of social skills training to help adults who suffer from social anxiety disorder.
  • HelpGuide.org - A trusted guide to mental, emotional & social health that deals with social anxiety disorder and social phobia.

Other Resources

We provide great information and resources to help meet your needs.

Helpful Links

Great for first time patients and parents.

Printable Forms

Save time by filling out forms in advance

Ask A Question

Answers to question or concerns you may have.