Social skills are behaviors that give merit to people as a social being and are used to achieve an end according to their life, the present research article had the purpose of explaining how HHSS strengthen the personal development of high school students. It was developed through the methodology of bibliographic review of 70 primary sources among them, 60 articles, 7 doctoral theses and 3 books from various databases: Elseiver, Scielo, Scopus, Alicia, Web of Science, Latindex, Google Académico, Dialnet, Redalyc, among others, which were validated for their use and contribution to each of the thematic axes. The results correspond to assertive communication, academic performance, assertive behavior, virtuality, emotions, context: social, family, educational and self-concept, in adolescents. The work concludes that through the results obtained from the research it can be indicated that social skills strengthen the axes worked on, improving behavioral habits, emotions, interrelationships, verbal and paraverbal communication, thinking, obtaining an academic achievement and prepared to respond to events that may occur in their context.