Social Survival Skills:
Skills Building Workshops for Children and Teens
Skills Taught Include:
- How to Initiate and Sustain Conversation
- How to Join into Group Conversations
- How to Join into Group Play
- How to be Flexible
- How to Choose Friends Who Are a Good Fit For You
- How to Effectively Deal With Teasing/Bullying
Skills are broken down into discrete steps that are presented in fun, kid-friendly ways.
Children are taught how to spot self-defeating thoughts and how to replace it with positive, more realistic self-talk.
What Good Is Having
A Skill If You Don't Use It?
To Help Maximize Your child's social success, each social survival group is paired with a corresponding parent's group
that meets simultaneously in an adjacent room.
In that companion group parents will:
- Review the Skills Their Child is Learning
- Develop a Common Social Skills Language to Aid in Coaching their Child
- Troubleshoot issues in the Generalization of Skills to Daily Life
- Learn Simple Strategies to help their child decrease social anxiety & increase social confidence and success.