ABSTRACT

Talkabout for Children: Developing Friendship Skills is a bestselling professional workbook supporting educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for children with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.

This resources creates the final level of the Talkabout heirachy, where self-awareness comes before non-verbal skills and non-verbal comes before verbal, with assertiveness coming last.

Resources include:

  • an assessment framework
  • planning and evaluation forms
  • a three-term intervention plan for schools
  • over 25 structured activity sessions focussing on friendship skills
  • all the supplementary handouts and images needed to deliver the sessions.

This second edition is presented with full-colour illustrations and handouts, and includes a new introduction by Alex Kelly reflecting on her own experiences of using the resources since they were first developed.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter |10 pages

Initial assessment

topic 1|13 pages

What is a friend?

topic 2|21 pages

Friendly behaviours

topic 3|36 pages

Choosing a friend

topic 4|22 pages

Starting out

topic 5|48 pages

Being a good friend

topic 6|42 pages

Coping with problems

chapter |8 pages

Plan of Intervention

chapter |6 pages

Forms