People Skills for Young Adults - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849850062 ISBN 13: 9781849850063

Synopsis

A complete course in social skills training for students aged 16 and up, this text is particularly designed for those with mild learning difficulties. Areas covered include: friends and relatioships, personal development, self-confidence, and assertiveness.

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Review

A truly amazing book. This book is formatted in a style to be used as sessions to help young people learn about social skills. Easy to follow and in about 1 hour various social skills can be worked on as a group. A real must-have-book for those who want to see our children mature successfully. (adders.org)

This is a useful tool that could be utilised in many settings for social skills training with young adults. (British Journal of Occupational Therapy)

This book provides session outlines for a social skills course for young adults with mild learning difficulties. The course is designed with clear guidelines for the group leader. The course has proved to be a valuable learning tool in the group sessions so far completed and generally there has been a positive response from participants. The overall style of the book is easy to read and could be used to dip in and out of for idea if there are particular one-to-one issues to address. This is a useful tool that could be utilised in many settings for social skills training with young adults. (British Journal of Occupational Therapy)

This book is written to assist leaders teaching in life skills groups. It has three main teaching areas, friendship, social skills and assertion, 24 sessions and a brief section at the end on counselling including when professional help is appropriate. The book is well defined with clearly defined sessions and leaders notes. It is easy to read especially as a planning tool. This book is well set out with some pages, which can be photocopied for use within the group, Each teaching area could be used alone...This book would be a useful resource for a department especially if life skills/assertion courses are being set up for the first time. (OTPLD)

This resource is a complete course in social skills for teenagers and particularly appropriate for those with mild learning difficulties. The course is made up of lots of situations for discussions, role-play and guidelines for course leaders making it easy for those who have not dealt with this subject before. The four main subjects covered in the course are friendship, social skills training, assertiveness and counselling. Included in these sections are making new friends, loneliness, barriers in friendship, social and relationship rules, self-confidence and shyness, saying no, compliments and complaints. This book contains much excellent material which would help many unconfident and wary teenagers. (Youthwork)

The course is divided into three parts: part one deals with the nature and maintenance of friendship; part two with interpersonal social skills; part three with assertiveness -and believe it or not - 'counselling'. The aim here is not to produce young amateur counsellors so much as to foster the attainment of a deeper, more meaningful level of communication and support in personal relationships. (Counselling)

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About the Book
This book is divided into three parts. Part One concentrates on friendships: why we need them and the benefits gained from being in a supportive social network; sex differences between friendships; how our personal development has been affected by the relationships we have had; why people become lonely; the development of friendships - the process of making friends and what determines how intimate a friendship becomes or whether a budding friendship fails.

Part Two concentrates on the social (interpersonal skills) between two people and the skills needed in developing relationships: body language; the different types of social inadequacies with relevant role-plays; hidden messages; the importance of appropriate self-disclosure; listening skills; overcoming shyness and making conversation in a variety of social interactions. Social rules are considered and their purpose.

Part Three deals with assertiveness and counselling skills (in an informal setting - that is, peer counselling rather than professional counselling). Both the asertiveness skills and counselling skills are techniques for 'fine-tuning' relationships, going that step further to reach more meaningful levels of communication and satisfaction within relationships, learning how to verbally protect oneself and help friends and acquaintances find their own solutions to problems.

The intended length of each session is one hour and the course was written with the intention that no research or preparatory work is required by the leader other than reading the material before the session and occasionally planning a session ahead so that students come prepared with, for example, certain role-play ideas.

Parents could use the book for ideas on how to help their teenager overcome shyness, become more sociable and learn to stick up for themselves without being aggressive. Many role-plays and discussion questions with example situations are given to make this a practical course dealing with issues from real life.

About this edition

• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1849850062
• ISBN 13: 9781849850063
• Binding: Paperback