Social skills, social networks and psychological well-being of patiens with spinal cord injury

The paper presents information concerning the relations between the subjective evaluation of social skills, parameters of the social network and the factors determining psychological well-being ofpatients with spinal cord injury sequellae (SCIS). Thus, one of the focuses of the diagnostic and therapeutic work of a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in the rehabilitation hospital environment becomes as well a subjective assessment by SCIS patients of their own social skills, as the development of these skills, contributing to the expansion of the social network, which is a resource for the provision ofpsychological wellbeing ofpatients. This testifies not only to the need for correction of the emotional state ofpatients, but also the necessity of specific psychotherapeutic interventions. Such interventions should be aimed at the increasing in the level of communication skills which are useful for the formation of new social relationships and the development of the social network of patients (group forms of training, support groups, chat forums, etc.).

spinal cord injury, rehabilitation, parameters of social network, social (interpersonal) skills, parameters of the social network of patients, psychological well-being, psychotherapeutic interventions