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I've gone to a few types of therapy and none have them have really been anything like "practice building social skills" at all. I imagine it would be more like
by majormajor 5y ago
I've gone to a few types of therapy and none have them have really been anything like "practice building social skills" at all.
I imagine it would be more like a class where every project is a group project but you're required to not either slack off or do it all yourself, and your grades depend on how much the rest of team enjoyed working with you, maybe. That's still limited to "work social skills" vs "personal life social skills," though.
- hammock 5y ago> "practice building social skills" Child psychologists will do this. (not all, and not all the time of course)
- nzmsv 5y agoSomeone did actually start a business doing exactly that: https://jaunty.org/ https://jaunty.org/
- phkahler 5y ago>> I've gone to a few types of therapy and none have them have really been anything like "practice building social skills" at all. I said they do it covertly. They laugh at your joke? It might be they find it funny, or it could be they are offering positive feedback for you making an attempt at appropriate social behavior. They use non-verbal feedback all the time to encourage or discourage things, which can make their behavior very strange at times until you realize what's happening. If you call them out on what they're doing they are very likely to gaslight you and deny your perceptions. It gets really fun when they try to use an extinction schedule and politely dismiss something as uninteresting that would otherwise be at least on "oh that's nice". Bullshit, these are some of the aspects of therapy that I call bullshit and can actually be harmful to "clients".
- voakbasda 5y agoYou are describing operant conditioning. And, yes, it backfires horribly once the subject becomes aware that they are being manipulated in such a manner.