Skill Streaming
Skillstreaming employs a four-part training approach—modelling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization—to teach essential prosocial skills to children and adolescents. Each book provides a complete description of the Skillstreaming program, with instructions for teaching a wide variety of prosocial skills and a CD including reproducible forms and handouts.
Resources available to purchase at: http://www.skillstreaming.com/
United Kingdom Resilience Programme
This is an adaptation of the Penn Resiliency Program (PRP), a curriculum developed by a team of psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania. Its original aim was to prevent adolescent depression, but it now has a broader remit of building resilience and promoting realistic thinking, adaptive coping skills and social problem-solving in children. The primary aim of the programme is to improve psychological well-being, but it is possible that any such improvement could also have an impact on behaviour, attendance and academic outcomes.
PRP is a manualised intervention comprising 18 hours of workshops. (“Manualised” means that no additional materials or resources are required to lead the workshops.) The curriculum teaches cognitive-behavioural and social problem-solving skills. Central to PRP is Ellis’s Activating-Belief-Consequences model that beliefs about events mediate their impact on emotions and behaviour. 7 PRP participants are encouraged to identify and challenge (unrealistic) negative beliefs, to employ evidence to make more accurate appraisals of situations and others’ behaviour, and to use effective coping mechanisms when faced with adversity. Participants also learn techniques for positive social behaviour, assertiveness, negotiation, decision-making, and relaxation.
Joel Shaul
http://autismteachingstrategies.com/ contains many useful resources for teaching social skills to children with Autism, as well as video demonstrations of how to use them.
Secondary SEAL Programme
Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) is “a comprehensive, whole-school approach to promoting the social and emotional skills that underpin effective learning, positive behaviour, regular attendance, staff effectiveness and the emotional health and well-being of all who learn and work in schools” (DCSF, 2007, p.4).
The SEAL programme is designed to promote the development and application to learning of social and emotional skills that have been classified under the five domains of Goleman’s (1995) model of emotional intelligence. These are self-awareness, self-regulation (managing feelings), motivation, empathy, and social skills.
Resources can be accessed via: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110809101133/nsonline.org.uk/node/87009