Life Skills/Social Skills
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Sex, Drugs and Asperger's Syndrome
A User Guide to Adulthood Luke Jackson's unabridged and sparkling sequel to his best-selling user guide to adolescence Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome is the must-read handbook for teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum. With devastating clarity, Luke focuses on the pitfalls involved in navigating the transition to adulthood, and the challenges of adult life. He covers everything from bullying and drugs to socializing, sex, negotiating relationships, and finding and keeping your first job.
$26.95
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Cheri J. Meiners Share and Take Turns
Sharing is a social skill all children need to learn—the sooner the better. Concrete examples and reinforcing illustrations help children practice sharing, understand how and why to share, and realize the benefits of sharing. Includes a note to teachers and parents, additional information for adults, and activities.
$18.50
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Short Introduction to Promoting Resilience
The author covers three key factors that affect resiliency: vulnerability to stress and anxiety, attachment relationships, and access to basic needs. For each, the author presents practical advice and strategies, such as how to regulate children's stress and anxiety, how to encourage and maintain secure attachments, and how to assure children that their needs are understood and will be met.
$35.95
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Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook
Proven, Step-by-Step Techniques for Overcoming Your Fear This fully revised and updated 3rd edition incorporates breakthrough new research and techniques for overcoming social phobia, including mindfulness-based treatments, medications, and an overview of treatment-enhancing technological advances. Find your strengths and weaknesses using self-evaluation, explore and examine fears, create a personalized plan for change, and put your plan into action.
$44.95
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James J. Crist, Ph.D. & Elizabeth Verdick Siblings: You're Stuck with Each Other, So Stick Together
Humorous yet practical advice for building positive sibling relationships. Turn sibling rivalry into positive sibling relationships with this fun, humorous pocket guide for kids. Siblings can make for great friends, and it’s nice to have someone who’ll love you no matter what. But kids know that sibling relationships can be hard when problems of fairness, jealousy, conflict, tattling, privacy, and other things come up—and they usually do. Siblings teaches kids how to deal with sibling rivalry and more, including special situations such as siblings with special needs, step-siblings, and adopted siblings, and it focuses on building positive sibling relationships. After all, siblings are siblings their whole lives.
$16.95
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Nathaniel Branden Six Pillars Of Self Esteem: The Definitive Work on Self-Esteem by the Leading Pioneer in the Field
The book demonstrates compellingly why self-esteem is basic to psychological health, achievement, personal happiness, and positive relationships. Branden introduces the six pillars-six action-based practices for daily living that provide the foundation for self-esteem-and explores the central importance of self-esteem in five areas: the workplace, parenting, education, psychotherapy, and the culture at large. The work provides concrete guidelines for teachers, parents, managers, and therapists who are responsible for developing the self-esteem of others. And it shows why-in today's chaotic and competitive world-self-esteem is fundamental to our personal and professional power.
$29.99
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Skillstreaming The Adolescent
Skill streaming 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 Skill streaming program, with instructions for teaching 50 prosocial skills. The widely acclaimed approach developed by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein and colleagues, now in 8½×11 format with reproducible skill outlines, skill homework reports, and program forms. Now includes forms CD.
$72.95
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Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child
Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child employs a four-part training approach—modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization—to teach essential prosocial skills to elementary school students. This book provides a complete description of the Skillstreaming program, with instructions for teaching 60 prosocial skills. The widely acclaimed approach is in 8½×11 format with reproducible skill outlines, skill homework reports, and program forms. Forms CD included.
$72.95
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Alex J. Packer, Jon Davis Slaying Digital Dragons: Tips and tools for protecting your body, brain, psyche, and thumbs from the digital dark side
Empower teens to take charge of their digital lives. Without avoiding the dark side of technology, this interactive and comprehensive reference book empowers teens to take charge of their digital life and improve their mental health and well-being. Quizzes and exercises guide readers through the process of evaluating their relationships with their screens, social media, and tech in general. With a frank and humorous approach to a timely topic, award-winning author Alex J. Packer, Ph.D., pulls back the curtain on the hidden aspects of the digital world and shares: Signs that screen time is affecting teens’ bodies, brains, and relationships Tips for protecting their privacy, safety, and reputation Ways social media and algorithms can distort their reality and sense of self Tools for finding life balance and resetting their screen scene Slaying Digital Dragons is a call to action to make the choices that are right for teens. It doesn’t demand ditching smartphones or deactivating social media. Instead, it suggests strategies for playing favorite games and posting on favorite apps, while also doing good in the world and bringing joy and encouragement to others. It invites readers to join the resistance and learn how to thwart the manipulative forces trying to control and profit off their users. And it gives teens what they need to stay safe and take charge of their digital life.
$44.95
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Dr. Art Markman Smart Change: Create New Habits
Five Tools to Create New and Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others An insightful guide that shows how habits of behavior are formed, and how we can transform bad habits into positive behaviors in ourselves and others. Smart Change explores the psychological mechanisms that form and maintain habits in individuals and groups and offers real, accessible and actionable advice for changing habits. This book offers five effective tools to help individuals change behavior and to help people influence the habits of the people around them.
$18.00
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Snoots Toots: A Kid's Game of Empathy and Manners
This awesome therapeutic board game from Dr. Poppy Moon''s Imagucation Creation Workshop! Kids ages 6-12 will role-play their way through a variety of situations requiring manners and empathy skills. Whether they are acting out a behavior showing proper conduct telling about a situation or imagining a feeling kids will be learning skills that are critical to social and emotional development. Simple setup and easy instructions make Snoots Toots! A Kids Game of Empathy and Manners the perfect game for individual small group and classroom guidance!
$52.95
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Social Context and Self-Management
A System for Clarifying Social Information for Adolescents and Adults Social Context and Self-Management: A System for Clarifying Social Information for Adolescents and Adults uses scales as a way of explaining social and emotional concepts to someone who might struggle with such information, but have a relative strength in understanding systems. Using this approach can increase communication between someone with autism and their partner or support person. The goal of this easy-to-use book is to teach individuals, teams, or groups how and why to teach social information, as it relates to particular social environments and contexts. The Incredible 5-Point Scale was developed to increase co-operation and mutual understanding through a concrete visual system. This strategy can help to increase social understanding and self-management skills, and the examples used in this book are related to common social situations and social misunderstandings often faced by young adults.
$27.95
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Goali Saedi Bocci Social Media Workbook for Teens
Skills to Help You Balance Screen Time, Manage Stress, and Take Charge of Your Life If you're like many teens, you probably check your smartphone several times throughout the day to stay up to date on the news from friends. But what happens when you're so worried about missing the latest posts on your feed that you end up missing out on real life adventures and connections? Grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this workbook will help you manage the stress and anxiety that can result from excessive screen time. Learn how to choose friends over followers, find tips for navigating cyberbullying, and discover new ways to get back in touch with your own life without your smartphone or other devices.
$34.95
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Darlene Mannix Social Skills Activities for Special Children
This revised and updated second edition of the ground-breaking Social Skills Activities for Special Children offers teachers 164 ready-to-use lessons complete with reproducible worksheets that help children become aware of acceptable social behavior and acquire basic social skills. Each of the book's lessons highlights a specific skill framed in real-life situations. This gives teachers a meaningful way to guide students to think about why a particular social skill is important. The practical hands-on activities that accompany each lesson help students work through, think about, discuss, and practice the skill in or outside of the classroom.
$39.95
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Social Skills Bingo Adult Version
Improves social skills by focusing on five important areas: positive and negative characteristics, verbal and nonverbal communication, getting along, and common interests.
$62.95
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Social Skills Bingo For Teens
Ages: 12-18. This game focuses on these five important areas: positive and negative characteristics, verbal and nonverbal communication, getting along, and common interests.
$62.95
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Social Skills Comics for Kids: Conversational Skills In School
Workbook with CD. Grades 7-12. These 25 comics are designed to show children the expected and unexpected ways to behave in a variety of typical school social situations. Detailed photos prompt children to take a closer look at dialog, body language, and non-verbal cues in both scenarios. Topics include: Reading body language; Using humor in conversation; Staying on topic; Accepting compliments; Asking a question; Ending a conversation, and many more!
$43.95
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Social Skills Game
The Social Skills Game is an ideal way to help children acquire social skills. This appealing board game teaches children attitudes and behaviors that promote positive interaction with their peers. It is especially helpful with those who are shy or socially neglected. Game cards focus on four skill areas: Making Friends, Responding Positively to Peers, Cooperating with Peers, and Communicating Needs. Included in the game manual are three inventories that can be used to identify the child's specific skill deficits and select game cards addressing those deficits. The game also teaches the six cognitive skills and orientations that improve social interactions: Self-Reinforcement (SR), Casual Attribution (CA), Performance Mediation With Anxiety (PMA), Performance Mediation With Mistakes (PMM), Expectations of Efficacy (EXE), and Expectations of Outcome (EXO).
$82.95
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Deborah Plummer, Jane Serrurier Social Skills Games For Children
Featuring a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games, this practical handbook is designed to foster successful social strategies for children aged 5-12 The book covers the theory behind the games in accessible language, and includes a broad range of enjoyable activities: active and passive, verbal and non-verbal, and for different sized groups. Deborah Plummer addresses issues that might arise when supporting children with a range of communication differences, including children with learning differences, and offers a variety of cognitive and behavioural strategies to help children to reinforce the skills explored in the games.
$51.95
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Social Skills Program: Inventories, Activities & Educational Handouts
(Reproducible). The Social Skills Program contains five modules of informal assessments and activities that will help students and clients learn more about themselves and the effectiveness of their social skills. These modules serve as an avenue for individuals to engage in self-reflection, as well as in group experiences revolving around topics of importance. The five modules include: Communication Effectiveness, Conflict Resolution, Interpersonal Style, Social Risk Taking, and Social Support.
$69.95
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Lindsey Sterling Social Survival Guide for Teens on the Autism Spectrum
Connect with friends and care for your emotions―for teens on the spectrum Social situations can feel mysterious or tricky to navigate―and if you are on the autism spectrum, they can feel overwhelming. The Social Survival Guide for Teens on the Autism Spectrum unlocks socialization secrets and helps you understand your feelings. Autism books for kids don't always address teenagers' needs, but the practical tips and step-by-step guides in this handbook are perfect for ages 12-16. Learn how to handle situations like managing anxiety, starting a conversation, understanding sarcasm, and dealing with conflict. Build stronger social skills and take care of your emotional health at the same time. This guide can help you feel more confident―and more connected to people you care about. Build new social interaction skills with: Friend fundamentals―Understand what makes a good friend, and learn about informal conversation, nonverbal communication, online etiquette, and more. Social essentials―Discover strategies for joining a group activity, staying flexible, saying no when you need to, and other topics essential to autism books for kids. Insight into you―You are your friend, too! Learn to recognize and express emotions, boost your mood with positive self-talk, and more.
$23.99
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Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela Crooke Social Thinking at Work: Strategies for Understanding and Navigating the Workplace
Most people are born with an intuitive sense of the social world that allows them to naturally be aware of social expectations and feeds them the information they need to follow the social code. But not everyone is born with intuitive social understanding. Challenges can arise in the workplace when employees expect their coworkers to have the same social understanding. This 200+ page book is a primer about the social mind in the workplace, but the concepts and strategies are equally applicable in all areas of life. This book is geared to young adults and adults on why social thinking/social skills are important in the workplace, community, and in relationships. This book was previously titled 'Good Intentions are Not Good Enough'. Ages: Adult
$47.95
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Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Card Deck
55 Practices for Confident and Thriving Kids Designed for kids 8-12, the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Card Deck provides teachers, parents, and therapists with 55 engaging and fun activities that teach the five key elements of SEL: Self-management: Handling emotions in healthy ways, Thinking about others: Building empathy and understanding of others, Self-awareness: Identifying emotions, thoughts, and values important to you, Relationship skills: Working together to solve problems, Responsible thinking: Using tools to guide decision-making. With the SEL Card Deck, kids will have the tools they need to manage big feelings, develop empathy for others, and make good decisions.
$29.95
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Emily Mori, Victoria Stebleva Social-Emotional Learning for Autistic Kids
Fun Activities to Manage Big Feelings and Make Friends Empower your child to express themselves, handle big emotions, and make friends—with this fun, neurodiversity-affirming activity book for autistic kids ages 5 to 10. There are many ways for kids to develop their social-emotional learning—and it doesn't have to be on the playground or in an unfamiliar place. This activity book for autistic kids provides your child with a safe space to learn and practice everything from coping with big emotions to taking turns and learning to compromise. Written by experienced therapist Emily Mori, MS, LCPC, CAS, Social-Emotional Learning for Autistic Kids helps kids develop fulfilling relationships and feel more confident in the world around them. Through 50 engaging activities, tips for adapting the activities, and advice for how parents and caregivers can be supportive, your child will gain the social and emotional skills—and confidence—they need for healthy self-esteem and a rich social life. Inside Social-Emotional Learning for Autistic Kids, you'll find: 50 fun and creative activities. Research shows that creative expression helps to relieve stress and anxiety and helps kids communicate more openly. Through art, music, storytelling, and role-playing, your child will learn how to better navigate life's ups and downs; Real-life scenarios and skill-building, from practicing cool-down techniques and naming their feelings to learning how to hold and respect boundaries, make and maintain friendships, and speak up for themselves; Tips to adapt and extend activities. Tailor activities to your child's individual needs and abilities, and continue to support your child's social-emotional learning at home; A neurodiversity-affirming approach. Written by a certified autism specialist who empowers kids to embrace their unique strengths and needs. Ages: 5-10
$21.99
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