Böcker av Aneesh Kurian

This book aims to examine life skills in the context of a rapidly changing social scenario, focusing on adolescent school children. The objectives include assessing life skills among adolescents and recommending strategies to enhance the life skills of adolescents. The explorative research design explores the extent of life skills among adolescents and possibilities for interventions. Primary data was collected using the Life Skills Assessment Scale (LSAS), measuring ten core life skills. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was employed for data analysis. The study found that a majority of adolescents have average life skills, with low representation in high and very high categories.

To excel in life, adolescents need to be more than academically intelligent. Life skill education are very crucial in this regard. Life skills help the adolescents understand, manage, and express the social and emotional aspects of one's life such as learning, forming relationships, solving everyday problems, and adapting to the complex demands of growth and development. Given the fact that life skills are linked to life success, it is critical to introduce its education and impart its training to the adolescents. This book is an effort to support the trainers and teachers to conduct life skills training among adolescence.