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Skillstreaming the Adolescent: A Guide for Teaching Prosocial Skills

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This program employs a four-part training approach – modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization – to teach essential prosocial skills to adolescents.

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By Dr. Ellen McGinnis
 
Skillstreaming the Adolescent employs a four-part training approach – modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization – to teach essential prosocial skills to adolescents.

This book provides a complete description of the Skillstreaming program, with instructions for teaching 50 prosocial skills.

  • Part 1: Skillstreaming Program Content and Implementation

    Chapters on effective Skillstreaming arrangements, Skillstreaming teaching procedures, refining skill use, teaching for skill generalization, managing behavior problems, Skillstreaming in the school context, and more.

  • Part 2: Skill Outlines and Homework Reports

    Skill outlines are handy one-page summaries for each skill, including skill steps, guidelines for skill instruction, and suggested situations for modeling displays. Homework reports list skill steps and guide students in practicing the skills and evaluating skill use outside the Skillstreaming group.

Skill Areas:

  • Classroom Survival Skills
  • Friendship-Making Skills
  • Skills for Dealing with Feelings
  • Skill Alternatives to Aggression
  • Skills for Dealing with Stress
Appendices provide all program forms needed to ensure a successful Skillstreaming intervention, plus leader and observer checklists to ensure program integrity.
 
The book is 8½. Softcover. 354 pages. Includes a CD. 2012. $46.99.
 
Student Manual: Skillstreaming the Adolescent is a clear, concise guide for students that serves as a handy reference and organizer. It is spiral-bound, 8½ × 11, 64 pages. $14.99.
 
Skill Cards: Skillstreaming the Adolescent is a set of 400 cue cards, 3×5 in size. The set is designed for student use during group sessions and homework assignments. The cards list the behavioral steps for each of the 50 skills contained in the book; eight cards are provided for each skill. $32.99.
 
Can purchase each of the above separately; the set (book, manual, and cards) is specially priced at $89.00. Please see the Product Options box above when ordering.
 
 
An additional component of this curriculum is available (to order, see the Product Options box above):

A DVD, titled Skillstreaming the Adolescent: People Skills, Doing ’em Right!, is for student viewing. It features a Skillstreaming session in progress in which group leaders model a skill; then students role-play the skill, receive feedback from other group members, and choose homework assignments.

The on-screen narrator helps student viewers understand what is expected in the group, points out the many benefits of using the skills, and motivates students to become more actively involved in the group. Viewing time: 17 minutes. Closed-captioned. $99.99.

 
 
 
IRP

0815

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