This book introduces successful social skills training methods and programs so that readers may improve their teaching, counseling, mentoring, or parenting skills. Such improvements may result in individuals having more socially appropriate skills today, as well as passing positive social skills on to the next generation. A step-by-step process for social skills development and four useful appendixes for documenting behavior and skills are included. This book provides readers with a clear blueprint for instilling this necessary skill set for those in need of behavior management to effectively function in the home, school, and community.
The revision of this series is highly timely and contemporary. The need for effective behavior management in children, youth, and adults is as important as ever given various events in todays society such as the increases in the numbers of children identified with autism, of bullying incidences both cyber and physical, and of school and workplace violence.
The How To Manage Behavior Series (Third Edition) contains 16 newly revised titles for practitioners and parents. These texts include effective, research-based strategies for use in increasing appropriate behaviors of children, students, and other persons whose behavior may be lacking or be creating problems at home, at school, or on the job. The books are nontechnical, step-by-step instructional manuals that define the procedures, provide numerous examples, and allow the reader to make oral or written responses. The books may be purchased individually or in the set of 16 titles.