Post by Edumom on Nov 14, 2003 14:02:22 GMT -5
This section lists books on Social Skills:
- Your Anxious Child; How Parents and Teachers can Relieve Anxiety in Children by John S. Dacey & Lisa B. Fiore
Katie freezes when she's asked to perform. Jose is a clinger. Damian is terrified of animals. Felicia always worries that she's going to make a mistake. It's hard being the parent of an anxious child, watching your son's frustration grow, or seeing how your daughter tries to cope with her fears but gives up so quickly. Filled with solid information, a proven four-step program, dozens of engaging activities, and insightful personal vignettes, Your Anxious Child gives you easy, fun, and highly effective tools to help your child become a creative problem solver. Parents and teachers alike will find excellent strategies in this essential guide
- Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step-By-Step Guide for Parents
by Ronald M. Rapee
All kids get scared, but some fears can escalate into paranoias with long-term ramifications. This step-by-step guide tackles the why, how, and what now of anxiety disorders. Written in everyday language, it describes in detail strategies and techniques parents can combine into a comprehensive self-help program for managing a child's worry while building confidence and self-control.
- Don't Pop Your Cork on Mondays, The Children's Anti-Stress Book by Adolph Moser, Ed.D.
The Emotional Impact Series...
In this very informative and highly entertaining handbook for children, Dr. Adolph Moser offers practical approaches and effective techniques to help young people deal with stress.
- Don't Feed the Monster on Tuesdays! The Children's Self-Esteem Book by Adolph Moser, Ed.D.
- Don't Rant and Rave on Wednesdays! The Children's Anger Control Book by Adolph Moser, Ed.D.
- Don't Be a Menace on Sundays! The Children's Anti-Violence Book by Adolph Moser, Ed.D.
- How to Take the GRRRR Out of Anger by Elizabeth Verthingy and Marjorie Lisovskis
Anger is a part of life. We can’t avoid it, we shouldn’t stuff it, and we can’t make it go away. Kids need help learning how to manage their anger. This book speaks directly to kids and offers strategies they can start using immediately. Blending tips and ideas with jokes and funny cartoons, it guides kids to understand that anger is normal and can be expressed in many ways—some healthy, some not. It teaches them how to recognize anger in themselves and others, how to deal with situations and emotions (loneliness, guilt, frustration, fear) that lead to or mask anger, and how to deal with the anger they feel. Young readers learn that violence is not acceptable and there are better, safer ways to resolve conflicts. They also discover what to do when people around them are angry, how to get help, and how to locate other resources (books, hotlines, school groups) when they need more support.
- Why Don't They Like Me? by Susan M. Seridan, Ph.D.
This parent-friendly "how-to" book for teaching children age-appropriate social skills will not stay on your parent resource shelf for long. Its accessible language and format, and fun approach make it easy for parents to teach, remind, and reinforce social skills use. Children are given skills broken down into simple steps that are easy to remember, and parents benefit from the many techniques, examples, and suggestions. With this book and its tear-out social skills cards, children acquire such skills as:
*Starting conversations *Dealing with teasing *Cooperating *Handling being left out *Expressing feelings *Controlling anger
- Good Friends are Hard to Find by Fred Frankel, Ph.D.
This guide teaches parents clinically-tested techniques from UCLA's world-renowned Children's Social Skills Program for helping their 5- to 12-year-olds make friends and solve problems with other kids. Also provided is concrete help for handling teasing, bullying, and meanness, both for the child who is picked on and for the tormentor.
- A Good Friend: How to Make One, How to Be One by Ron Herron & Val J. Peter
A Good Friend: How to Make One, How to Be One reveals sure ways to build and keep friendships. The book begins by defining 10 general rules for friendship, such as looking out for one another, being trustworthy, and listening. Subsequent chapters lay out a blueprint for building conversation skills, getting along with others, and adapting people skills to diverse social situations. It also gives concrete steps to build confidence in shy youth.
- Social Skills Activities for Special Children by Darlene Mannix
For all teachers of children with special needs, here are 142 ready-to-use lessons and reproducible line master activity sheets to help children become aware of acceptable social behavior and develop proficiency in acquiring basic social skills. Each lesson places a specific skill within the context of real-life situations. It gives the teacher a means to guide students to think about the social skill and why it is important, and provides a hands-on activity for students to work through, think about, discuss, and practice in or outside of the classroom.
- Helping Students Overcome Depression and Anxiety by Kenneth W. Merrell
Depression, anxiety, and other internalizing disorders can have severe and lasting consequences for children and adolescents. This unique handbook provides the school-based practitioner with clear-cut strategies for addressing these problems creatively and effectively with students in grades K-12. A concise overview of the nature, development, and course of childhood depression and anxiety is delineated, and a comprehensive assessment model is outlined. Chapters then present a wide range of empirically supported interventions that are easy to implement and readily adaptable to diverse settings. Featured cognitive-behavioral and psychoeducational techniques are described in jargon-free language, and numerous reproducible handouts, worksheets, and exercises are included to facilitate the practitioner's day-to-day work. Other topics covered include currently available psychiatric medications for depression and anxiety, and when and how a psychiatric referral should be mad
- Seven Steps to Help Your child Worry Less by Sam Goldstein, Ph.D., Kristy Hagar, Ph.D., and Robert Brooks, Ph.D.
This guide for parents offers practical strategies to help teach children relaxation techniques, correct ways of thinking to combat worry and anxiety, and empowering behavioral interventions. Parents are encouraged to understand why children worry and to recognize if a child needs help with excessive worry. Explained are how to create a plan to help a child, effective strategies to reduce worry, and how to build a child's self-esteem and confidence so he or she can become more resilient. Additional guidance for medical professionals and for teachers is provided.
- The Tough Kid Social Skills Book by Susan M. Sheridan
- Your Anxious Child; How Parents and Teachers can Relieve Anxiety in Children by John S. Dacey & Lisa B. Fiore
Katie freezes when she's asked to perform. Jose is a clinger. Damian is terrified of animals. Felicia always worries that she's going to make a mistake. It's hard being the parent of an anxious child, watching your son's frustration grow, or seeing how your daughter tries to cope with her fears but gives up so quickly. Filled with solid information, a proven four-step program, dozens of engaging activities, and insightful personal vignettes, Your Anxious Child gives you easy, fun, and highly effective tools to help your child become a creative problem solver. Parents and teachers alike will find excellent strategies in this essential guide
- Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step-By-Step Guide for Parents
by Ronald M. Rapee
All kids get scared, but some fears can escalate into paranoias with long-term ramifications. This step-by-step guide tackles the why, how, and what now of anxiety disorders. Written in everyday language, it describes in detail strategies and techniques parents can combine into a comprehensive self-help program for managing a child's worry while building confidence and self-control.
- Don't Pop Your Cork on Mondays, The Children's Anti-Stress Book by Adolph Moser, Ed.D.
The Emotional Impact Series...
In this very informative and highly entertaining handbook for children, Dr. Adolph Moser offers practical approaches and effective techniques to help young people deal with stress.
- Don't Feed the Monster on Tuesdays! The Children's Self-Esteem Book by Adolph Moser, Ed.D.
- Don't Rant and Rave on Wednesdays! The Children's Anger Control Book by Adolph Moser, Ed.D.
- Don't Be a Menace on Sundays! The Children's Anti-Violence Book by Adolph Moser, Ed.D.
- How to Take the GRRRR Out of Anger by Elizabeth Verthingy and Marjorie Lisovskis
Anger is a part of life. We can’t avoid it, we shouldn’t stuff it, and we can’t make it go away. Kids need help learning how to manage their anger. This book speaks directly to kids and offers strategies they can start using immediately. Blending tips and ideas with jokes and funny cartoons, it guides kids to understand that anger is normal and can be expressed in many ways—some healthy, some not. It teaches them how to recognize anger in themselves and others, how to deal with situations and emotions (loneliness, guilt, frustration, fear) that lead to or mask anger, and how to deal with the anger they feel. Young readers learn that violence is not acceptable and there are better, safer ways to resolve conflicts. They also discover what to do when people around them are angry, how to get help, and how to locate other resources (books, hotlines, school groups) when they need more support.
- Why Don't They Like Me? by Susan M. Seridan, Ph.D.
This parent-friendly "how-to" book for teaching children age-appropriate social skills will not stay on your parent resource shelf for long. Its accessible language and format, and fun approach make it easy for parents to teach, remind, and reinforce social skills use. Children are given skills broken down into simple steps that are easy to remember, and parents benefit from the many techniques, examples, and suggestions. With this book and its tear-out social skills cards, children acquire such skills as:
*Starting conversations *Dealing with teasing *Cooperating *Handling being left out *Expressing feelings *Controlling anger
- Good Friends are Hard to Find by Fred Frankel, Ph.D.
This guide teaches parents clinically-tested techniques from UCLA's world-renowned Children's Social Skills Program for helping their 5- to 12-year-olds make friends and solve problems with other kids. Also provided is concrete help for handling teasing, bullying, and meanness, both for the child who is picked on and for the tormentor.
- A Good Friend: How to Make One, How to Be One by Ron Herron & Val J. Peter
A Good Friend: How to Make One, How to Be One reveals sure ways to build and keep friendships. The book begins by defining 10 general rules for friendship, such as looking out for one another, being trustworthy, and listening. Subsequent chapters lay out a blueprint for building conversation skills, getting along with others, and adapting people skills to diverse social situations. It also gives concrete steps to build confidence in shy youth.
- Social Skills Activities for Special Children by Darlene Mannix
For all teachers of children with special needs, here are 142 ready-to-use lessons and reproducible line master activity sheets to help children become aware of acceptable social behavior and develop proficiency in acquiring basic social skills. Each lesson places a specific skill within the context of real-life situations. It gives the teacher a means to guide students to think about the social skill and why it is important, and provides a hands-on activity for students to work through, think about, discuss, and practice in or outside of the classroom.
- Helping Students Overcome Depression and Anxiety by Kenneth W. Merrell
Depression, anxiety, and other internalizing disorders can have severe and lasting consequences for children and adolescents. This unique handbook provides the school-based practitioner with clear-cut strategies for addressing these problems creatively and effectively with students in grades K-12. A concise overview of the nature, development, and course of childhood depression and anxiety is delineated, and a comprehensive assessment model is outlined. Chapters then present a wide range of empirically supported interventions that are easy to implement and readily adaptable to diverse settings. Featured cognitive-behavioral and psychoeducational techniques are described in jargon-free language, and numerous reproducible handouts, worksheets, and exercises are included to facilitate the practitioner's day-to-day work. Other topics covered include currently available psychiatric medications for depression and anxiety, and when and how a psychiatric referral should be mad
- Seven Steps to Help Your child Worry Less by Sam Goldstein, Ph.D., Kristy Hagar, Ph.D., and Robert Brooks, Ph.D.
This guide for parents offers practical strategies to help teach children relaxation techniques, correct ways of thinking to combat worry and anxiety, and empowering behavioral interventions. Parents are encouraged to understand why children worry and to recognize if a child needs help with excessive worry. Explained are how to create a plan to help a child, effective strategies to reduce worry, and how to build a child's self-esteem and confidence so he or she can become more resilient. Additional guidance for medical professionals and for teachers is provided.
- The Tough Kid Social Skills Book by Susan M. Sheridan