Interpersonal Skills

Increasing interpersonal effectiveness is frequently a therapeutic goal.

Learning to practice a range of specific skills can help.  Such skills include:

  • making an invitation
  • paying someone a compliment
  • sharing a personal story
  • asking good "getting to know you questions"
  • limit setting and saying no
  • sharing how you feel and what you want
  • acknowledging the other person's perspective
  • apologizing
We will say more about these skills in future articles, including identifying the consequences of them and how to get better at using and practicing them.