06 life skills necessary for health development of adolescents and youth in Vietnam

06 life skills necessary for health development of adolescents and youth in Vietnam

In the professional document “National Guidelines for Reproductive Health Care Services - Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health Care Content”, the Ministry of Health of Vietnam has outlined 06 essential life skills necessary for the health development of adolescents and youth as follows:

(1) Value Identification Skills: The ability to determine which virtues, beliefs, attitudes, or opinions are important to oneself and guide actions according to that orientation.

(2) Decision-Making Skills: The ability of an individual to independently make decisions based on sufficient information and an awareness of the outcomes or consequences of those decisions.

(3) Assertiveness Skills: The ability to recognize what one wants or does not want, in accordance with specific circumstances, while maintaining that determination even under external influences.

(4) Goal-Setting Skills: The ability to identify what each individual wants to achieve or attain.

(5) Communication Skills: The ability that adolescents and youth can use in daily communication to express their desires, emotions, and thoughts, while also understanding the viewpoints, attitudes, and desires of others.

Communication skills are a combination of various skills such as listening skills, observation skills, expression skills, questioning skills, negotiation skills, refusal skills, and more. These skills help adolescents and youth know how to establish and develop relationships.

(6) Refusal Skills: The ability to say “no” to a proposal or invitation from others to do something one does not want to do; especially proposals involving risky behaviors for health.

More details can be found in Decision 3261/QD-BYT effective from November 4, 2024.

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