Teaching Social Skills to Youth, Fourth Edition: An Easy-To-Follow Guide to Teaching 196 Basic to Complex Life Skills - Jeff Tierney - Bog

A master guide to social skills instruction, this fourth edition features thirteen new social skills that address issues related to personal autonomy, law enforcement interactions, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Special attention is given to helping educators and caregivers develop their cultural competence and better understand every child's self-identity. The manual now features 196 skills and focuses on the importance of teaching social skills to youth of all ages, the elements of social behavior (task and behavior analysis), individual and group teaching techniques, generalization of skills, the role of skill-based interventions for difficult youth problems, and the Boys Town Social Skills Curriculum itself.