This guidebook provides a handy reference for youth to the eight most important social skills and their behavioral 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 behavioral steps to each skill are presented, each with a rationale that youth will respond to and helpful hints on how they can accomplish the behavior.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic for my middle school students!,
This review is from: Basic Social Skills for Youth: A Handbook from Boys Town (Paperback)
During my first year teaching 6th grade, I had no idea what to do with my students. My classroom management was a disaster and I didn't have a positive culture of respect and understanding. I purchased this book from advice from a good friend and it completely turned my classroom around. It took a while to teach each social skill, but it paid off. I HIGHLY recommend this book for any parent or teacher struggling to manage a child's behavior. It's all about TEACHING those basic skills that we sometimes take for granted.
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Just what the doctor ordered,
By "hmssalty" (Salt Lake City, Utah United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Basic Social Skills for Youth: A Handbook from Boys Town (Paperback)
If you grew up in a healthy family where appropriate behaviors were naturally reinforced, and need to teach others who have been too, this book is not for you. But if your childhood family did not reinforce appropriate behavior and you are trying to figure out how to teach it to others, this book gets the essentials very plainly. It seems to me that 90% of all misbehavior can be dealt with calmly with just the first skill, Following Instructions: 1. look at the person, 2. say okay, 3. do what you've been asked, and 4. check back. This specific instruction has been very useful for me so that when I am trying to get my children to behave, we all have the same definition of what it means to be behaving. The list I have for following instructions also includes "keep calm in face, voice, and body." I had a great discussion with my children on keeping a calm voice; that it doesn't include yelling, laughing, or crying, or any sound like them. I don't see that item here, but nevertheless there is a good task analysis of each behavior.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A good quick reference for behavior issues in foster children,
By Viktoria Walker "Eclectically Charged" (Southcentral WI, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: Basic Social Skills for Youth: A Handbook from Boys Town (Paperback)
I bought this small reference after reading Boys Town's larger foster parent guide, as that book mentions this one. In both books, the material about "Social Skills" is presented in a very concrete, teachable manner: here's the behavior you want to see; here's why it matters; here's what it looks like when you do it right. Looking at these behaviors as social skills -- important to the child's relationships in the world, and his way of moving through society -- is intuitively the right approach. To a damaged child, some of the more "anti-social" behaviors he has internalized have been very useful to his survival, so why should he stop them? Lying protected him from consequences, stealing got him food or other things he needed. By looking at the behaviors as damaging to his relationships, and not condeming the child for learning the "wrong" skills in the past, we have a good tool for seeing positive change. I remind myself (almost daily!) that our foster kids ARE capable of learning: look at the skills (for better or worse) that they have learned already! A quick read overall, and a good reference to have on hand for those "what do I do now?" moments.
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