I can attest to this, as for various reasons my parents sent me to social skills when I was young. The classes themselves have a lot in common with both anger

I can attest to this, as for various reasons my parents sent me to social skills when I was young. The classes themselves have a lot in common with both anger management and conflict resolution pedagogy, in that the method was mostly to build skills by practicing explicit, step-by-step processes until they converted into intuition. I have to say, I participated grudgingly when I was younger, but with a few decades' hindsight I think the classes have given me a long-term advantage over my peers; rather than a house of cards built on habit and intuition, my habits and intuitions are built onto an explicit framework that I can readily integrate new social skills into.