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Core Course #10: Your Personal Growth Plan: Developing Intra-personal Skills <br /> <br />I. CouRse: DESCRIPTION <br /> One area of emotional growth that lags in at-risk youth is the area of intra-personal skills. <br />Unemployed persons often anger quickly. They also exhibit impatience and other traits that <br />reduce intra-personal effectiveness. This unit is designed to allow the youth to improve his/her <br />relationship with himself or herself. <br />II. COURSE OBJECTIVES <br /> After completing this session, each participant will be able to: <br /> o Assess and improve their degree of self-discipline; <br /> o Assess and improve their degree of self-control; <br /> o Engage in regular and continuing self-assessment; <br /> o Adopt and embrace the value of honesty; and <br /> o Elevate their ability to cope with stress. <br /> <br />IIL COURSE ACTIVITIES <br /> This session will consist of all role-plays. Role-plays will be used to allow the youth to <br />explore their intra-personal skills in each area listed in below. <br /> <br />· SELF-DISCIPLINE - Self-discipline involves the applying of skills to get things done which <br /> need to be done and done in a timely manner. Get the youth to role-play a situation <br /> involving procrastination. Then teach them to write daily TO-DO lists. <br /> SELF-CONTROL - Self-control involves the youth's ability to personally manage different <br /> aspects of his/her life including language, dress, appearance, sexual behavior, and abstinence <br /> from criminal behavior. Self-control also references the youth's ability to display <br /> appropriate behavior in relationships. <br />· SELF-ASSESSMENT - The youth must learn to introspect, identify their personal feelings in <br /> each situation, and learn to manage them. Self-assessment also involves the youth learning <br /> about their own personal talents and strengths, and verbally recognizing their weaknesses and <br /> mistakes. Only then can the youth define realistic goals and objectives. This unit will allow <br /> the youth to revisit their Asset and Liability plans from the unit on self-esteem and to begin <br /> to engage in self-assessment as a routine component of their lives. <br />· HONESTY - Honesty is critical. The youth must be trained to be totally and brutally honest <br /> with themselves first and with others second. A workable activity that can be used is a board <br /> game such as Scruples. Coping with stress is so broad that it will be covered in the next unit. <br /> Again, this is a session that will include parents, siblings, and friends so that the youth's <br /> social circle is included. <br /> <br />Task 8: Parenting Skills Development for Parents of the Youth <br /> <br /> Independently of family structure, parenting styles that are suppor[ive of the <br />positive development of youth can be adopted. Dekovic and Janssens (1992) found that <br />youth who were reared by parents who offer a controlled environment, engage in clear <br /> <br />CHCADA's Response to RFP# PY2002 Page 28 : <br /> <br /> <br />