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ISBN: 978-1-59909-041-2
The Tough Kid Social Skills Book

Publication Date: 2010
Susan M. Sheridan
 

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Spiralbound, 200pp
Includes CD of Reproducible Resources
Grades 3-7

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About the Author

Susan M. Sheridan, Ph.D., is a Willa Cather Professor and a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is the current Director of the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools. Her primary research interests are in the areas of social skills training and interventions, consultation with parents and teachers, and educational and home-school partnerships. Susan is Editor of School Psychology Review , the official journal of the National Association of School Psychologists. She is the author of numerous books, journal articles, and book chapters on such topics as the effectiveness of social skills training programs, parents’ involvement in their children’s education, and collaboration between parents and teachers. In 1993, Susan won the APA Division 16 (School Psychology) Lightner Witmer Award for early career accomplishments, and in 1996 she won the Utah Association of School Psychologists’ School Psychologist of the Year Award. She holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Works by Susan include The Tough Kid Social Skills Book and Why Don’t They Like Me? Helping Your Child Make and Keep Friends.

Summary

Tough Kids often have a difficult time getting along in social situations, largely because they have not learned appropriate ways of behaving. The Tough Kid Social Skills Book teaches those learned behaviors that students need to get along successfully in a majority of social situations.

This book can help teachers, school psychologists, school behaviorists, school counselors, school social workers, and other support staff implement social skills programs for Tough Kids that teach:

  • Body Basics
  • Joining in
  • Recognizing and expressing feelings
  • Having a conversation
  • Playing cooperatively
  • Solving problems
  • Using self-control
  • Solving arguments
  • Dealing with teasing
  • Dealing with being left out
  • Accepting “No”
The book contains a variety of tools and strategies to help:
  • Identify Tough Kids in need of direct social skills training.
  • Gather data to assess important social skills.
  • Lead productive social skills groups.
  • Conduct structured social skills programs in small group, classroom, or schoolwide applications.
Help the Tough Kids in your class learn the skills they need to be successful in social situations!