Teaching Social Skills to Youth, 3rd Ed.: An Easy-To-Follow Guide to Teaching 183 Basic to Complex Life Skills
Title | Teaching Social Skills to Youth, 3rd Ed.: An Easy-To-Follow Guide to Teaching 183 Basic to Complex Life Skills PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Tierney, M. Ed. |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016-02-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781934490709 |
Boys Town's trademark manual, offering the step-by-step component behaviors to 183 skills. The skills range from basic to complex, and have been updated, removing several obsolete skills and adding skills to match challenges today's youth face. The manual still offers hallmark treatment examples, demonstrating how and when to teach the skills; but also incorporates references to and information from the latest research findings. The 3rd edition incorporates multi-tiered approaches to social and emotional learning, as well as how the skills relate to executive function.
Basic Social Skills for Youth
Title | Basic Social Skills for Youth PDF eBook |
Author | Boys Town Press |
Publisher | Boys Town Press |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780938510390 |
This guidebook provides a handy reference for youth to the eight most important social skills and their behavioural steps. Each step includes a rationale for why it is important and hints on how it can best be applied. Eight social skills are included: following instructions, disagreeing appropriately, accepting criticism or a consequence, talking with others, showing respect, accepting "no" for an answer, introducing yourself, and showing sensitivity to others. The behavioural steps to each skill are presented, each with a rationale that youth will respond to and helpful hints on how they can accomplish the behaviour.
Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders
Title | Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Resetar Volz |
Publisher | Boys Town Press |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1934490105 |
Research and experience show that children and adolescents who struggle with emotional, behavioral and social problems do improve when they learn prosocial skills. Social skill instruction, therefore, can be a vital component in the treatment planning for a child diagnosed with a mental health disorder. Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders is a guide for therapists, counselors, psychologists, educators, and other practitioners trying to help these youth get better.
Teaching Social Skills to Youth
Title | Teaching Social Skills to Youth PDF eBook |
Author | Tom P. Dowd |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Interpersonal relations in children |
ISBN | 9781889322698 |
Teaching Social Skills to Youth features the step-by-step component behaviors to 182 skills, from the basic (following instructions and introducing yourself) to the complex (managing stress and resolving conflict). Opening chapters explain the individual and group teaching techniques that enable youth to recognize when, where, or with whom to use a particular skill. The authors also show how to plan skill-based treatment interventions for youth with difficult problems such as substance abuse, aggression, running away, depression, or attention deficits.
Tools for Teaching Social Skills in Schools
Title | Tools for Teaching Social Skills in Schools PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Hensley |
Publisher | Boys Town Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1889322644 |
This book targets 28 social skills including following instructions, staying on task, working with others, accepting criticism, listening, ignoring distractions, making a good choice, sharing, and showing respect. It includes lesson plans, reproducible skill pages, techniques and examples for 'blending' the teaching of social skills into academic lessons, ideas for using bulletin board displays to motivate and monitor behaviour, and strategies for increasing parental support.
Teaching Social Skills to Students with Visual Impairments
Title | Teaching Social Skills to Students with Visual Impairments PDF eBook |
Author | Sharon Sacks |
Publisher | American Foundation for the Blind |
Pages | 548 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Blind children |
ISBN | 9780891288824 |
"This book expands upon the knowledge base and provides a compendium of intervention strategies to support and enhance the acquisition of social skills and children and youths with visual impairments ... Part 1 ... addresses social skills from a first-person perspective. The second part ... examines how theory seeks to explain social development and influences assessment and practice ... Part 3, ties personal perspectives and theory to actual practice. Finally, Part 4 ... offers numerous examples and models for teaching social skills to students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabling conditions."--Introduction.
Teaching Social Skills to Youth
Title | Teaching Social Skills to Youth PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Dowd |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
This book is designed to help teachers and other caregivers teach youth the social skills needed to succeed in school, at home, and on the job. The text examines the elements of social behavior, presents individual and group teaching techniques, and discusses planning of skill-based treatment interventions for difficult youth problems.