Kim Kiker Painter

Social Skills Groups for Children and Adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome

A Step-By-Step Program

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an empirically-grounded, ready-to-use curriculum for clinicians, teachers and professionals wishing to lead social skills groups for young people with AS. It provides an introduction to AS and issues surrounding social skills, including diagnostic and assessment issues, the importance of good social skills, and treatment approaches.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 282mm x 217mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9781843108214
• ISBN-10: 1843108216
• Artikelnr.: 21889693

Autorenporträt

Kim Kiker Painter

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Asperger Syndrome and Social Skills. Chapter 1. Overview of AS.
Chapter 2. Diagnostic and Assessment Issues. Chapter 3. The Importance of
Social Skills. Chapter 4. Treatment Approaches. Chapter 5. Introduction to
the Model Program. Chapter 6. `Summing Up'. Part II: The Program. Chapter
7. The Model Program. Session 1: Greeting and Getting to Know You. Session
2: Identifying Emotions. Session 3: Identifying Facial Expressions. Session
4: Continuum of Emotions. Session 5: Tone of Voice. Session 6: Initiating
Conversations. Session 7: Maintaining Conversations - Basic Conversational
Skills. Session 8: Maintaining Conversations - Responding to the Emotions
of Others. Session 9: Conversational Skills - Phone Skills. Session 10:
Manners and Dinner Outing. Chapter 8.Supplemental Sessions. Part III:
Further Reading. Appendix: Theoretical Background to this Resource.
References. Subject index. Author index.