Teaching Social Skills to Youth: A Step-by-Step Guide to 182 Basic to Complex Skills Plus Helpful Teaching Techniques »

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.

Teaching Social Skills to Youth is an ideal resource for the classroom, in counseling or therapy, and in job training programs. Use it to increase the skill competency of any child, help improve student behavior in school, or develop an individualized plan of treatment for troubled or at-risk youth.