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Talkabout for Children 1: Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem (2nd Edition)
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Talkabout for Children: Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem 2e 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 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.
Product overview
Talkabout for Children: Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem 2e is a bestselling professional workbook supporting educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for children with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.
Self-awareness and self-esteem is an essential prerequisite to developing social skills and so this book is an excellent first step to any social skills programme. This resources creates the foundation of the Talkabout hierarchy, 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 40 structured activity sessions focusing on self-awareness and self-esteem
– 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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Initial Assessment
Talkabout Me
Topic 1: This is me
Topic 2: People in my life
Topic 3: How I look
Topic 4: What am I like?
Topic 5: My qualities and strengths
Topic 6: Things that make me feel good
Topic 7: The way I feel
Topic 8: I am great
Group Cohesion Activities
Plan of Intervention
Forms
Index
Author(s) Biography
Alex Kelly is a Speech and Language Therapist with over 35 years’ experience of working with both children and adults with a learning disability and specialising in working with children around social and relationship skills. She set up her own business (Alex Kelly Ltd) in 2009 providing training and consultancy work in social skills around the UK and abroad. She then set up Speaking Space Ltd in Romsey, Hampshire, a company that provides speech and language therapy and a day service for adults with a learning disability which is now being run by her friend and colleague Naomi Pearson. Alex is the author of the bestselling ‘Talkabout’ resources and ‘Working with Adults with a Learning Disability’. She still lives in Hampshire and divides her time between her Talkabout training and personal commitments.
