Evaluación de habilidades comunicativas y de relación en alumnos de carreras dirigidas al asesoramiento - [Evaluation of communication and relationship skills in students of careers aimed at counseling]

. Communication and relationship skills are relevant in academic and professional activity in professions aimed at helping others. Having instruments that allow efficient evaluation (eg self-reports) facilitates the assessment of the acquisition and learning of large groups of candidates. One of these instruments can be the Communication Skills Questionnaire (HABICOM). In this work, as part of a larger project, various methodological aspects related to the use of HABICOM as an instrument for evaluating communication skills in interaction situations were examined. The results obtained in the proposed objectives suggest that: (1) The confirmatory factor analysis indicates that the factorial structure of HABICOM and levels of reliability and validity are acceptable once some items are eliminated; (2) These self-perceived abilities are similar in Psychology and Social Work students; (3) There is a relationship in the perception of the communication skills shown during the interaction in a self-applied or hetero-applied format; (4) The perception of the partner measured with the HABICOM correlates with the perception of the helping skills during the interaction; (5) The analysis of the student's skills through video is related to the skills identified by the partner.