Teaching Social Skills to Youth, 3rd Edition - Softcover

Jeff Tierney MED; Tom Dowd MA; Erin Green MS

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934490709 ISBN 13: 9781934490709

Publisher: Boys Town Press, 2016

Synopsis

An Easy-to-Follow Guide to Teaching 183 Basic to Complex Life Skills. Teaching Social Skills to Youth is Boys Town's trademark manual, offering step-by-step component behaviors to 183 social skills. The social skills range from basic to complex and have been updated to reflect the challenges today's youth face. This third edition still includes hallmark treatment examples, demonstrating how and when to teach the social skills. But new insights and information, based on the latest research findings, have been added.

Also added are details about multi-tiered approaches to social and emotional learning, and how skills relate to executive function. The appendices highlight what skills to include when you want to focus on social and emotional competency, executive function processes, behavior problems and problem situations. An enclosed CD offers printable posters for each skill.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Teaching Social Skills to Youth is Boys Town's trademark manual, offering the step-by-step component behaviors to 183 skills. The skills range from basic to complex and have been updated to reflect the challenges today's youth face. This third edition still includes hallmark treatment examples, demonstrating how and when to teach the skills. New insights and information, based on the latest research findings, have been added.

Also added are details about multi-tiered approaches to social and emotional learning, and how skills relate to executive function. The appendices highlight what skills to include when you want to focus on social and emotional competency, executive function processes, behavior problems and problem situations. Includes downloadable printable posters for each skill.

About the Author:

JEFF TIERNEY, M.Ed. is Director of Evaluation and Certification in Boys Town's Youth Care Division. Throughout his career, he has served children and families in residential, shelter,foster care, and in-home settings. Jeff is a nationally recognized speaker, author, and advocate for disabled people in the workplace. He currently oversees the evaluation and credentialing of Boys Town s Youth Care staff and programs nationwide.

About this edition

• Publisher: Boys Town Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1934490709
• ISBN 13: 9781934490709
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 310