The following questions are related to ‘Social Skills’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: Are you able to give me some strategies for this issue, please? I am a registered nurse dating a solicitor (attorney). He is 10 yrs older; I am in my 50s and divorced, living with my two teenage daughters. He lives alone and never married. Talking is the issue. When we speak on the [...]
Q: My husband was divorced in May ’05 and we married in November ’06. His ex has continued to call him and ask for directions to places and other “stupid” things that she can find out herself! I wouldn’t have a problem if it was something related to his children who are 18 and 24, [...]
Q: I have a daughter adopted internationally at 17 months of age. She was in an orphanage and has low vision. She appeared to have many (or most) of the symptoms of reactive attachment disorder when we brought her home. She would hang limp-limbed when I carried her, she cried and screamed for long periods, [...]
Q: For as long as I can remember I have been shockingly love-shy. When I was a teenager, everyone was dating, getting girlfriends and whatnot, and I was stuck lonely. I was a little eccentric as a child, and experienced social rejection on an occasional basis. I recently took the love-shyness test, and I found [...]
Q: My close woman friend is not communicating with me at this time. We usually would talk every day. We had a verbal disagreement (she did not like me speaking up to her about something she had said to me a week earlier). She said that I was not clean in my communication w/her and [...]
Q: I am a 44-year-old woman and a mother of a three-year-old. I have a low self esteem even though people tell me I am very smart and capable. I always feel I cannot learn and keep the information. I have struggled in every school to keep my attention (focus) and have not succeeded. I [...]
Q: I have a question for you that I hope you can answer. On many occasions I hear the phrase “It’s too bad …” I can’t quite figure it out. A person has a fender bender and someone will say something like “it’s too bad you had to drive downtown today”. A kid scores three [...]
