Teaching of students with emotional & behavioural difficulties

Talkabout for Teenagers

Developing Social & Emotional Communication Skills

by Alex Kelly, Brian Sains

Description

A complete groupwork resource offering a hierarchical approach to teaching social and relationship skills to teenagers.

Designed specifically for teenagers, this practical workbook provides ready-made material for running social and relationship skills groups with older children and young adults.

  • Divided into five, hierarchical modules – self awareness and self esteem; body language; conversational skills; friendship skills; assertiveness skills– each module includes a teaching plan with worksheets and photocopiable resources.
  • Includes a short assessment to highlight the module that is most appropriate to teach and the skills within that module that are relevant.
  • Provides a short guide to running successful social skills groups, for example, the numbers for each group, group rules, developing group cohesion, how to set up a role play.

The Talkabout series is an extremely successful, hierarchical approach to teaching social skills and Talkabout for Teenagers is ideal for all professionals working with teenagers with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.

Talkabout for Teenagers

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Rights Information

All rights held.

Marketing Information

SET: Teen Issues, Talkabout for Teenagers & Teenage Life Blob Cards

Author Biography

Alex Kelly is a Speech & Language Therapist who specialises in working with people with social skills and relationship skills difficulties. She currently runs her own business providing social skills training and consultancy to schools and organisations across the UK and overseas. Brian Sains is a teacher in a secondary mainstream school. He was a community learning disability nurse for 10 years and left 6 years ago to pursue a career in teaching. He has a special interest in teaching children with social and behavioural difficulties and has supported several local initiatives to teach children social skills within secondary schools.

Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher/Imprint Speechmark Publishing Limited / Speechmark Publishing
  • Publication Date September 2015
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9780863887826
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • FormatSpiral Bound
  • Primary Price 34.99 GBP
  • Pages240
  • ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Dimensions297 x 210 mm
  • Biblio NotesCopyright year: 2015
  • SeriesTalkabout
  • Reference Code25671

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