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Talkabout for Children 1: Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem 2e
$82.95 inc GST $75.41 ex GST
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.
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 Biography
Alex Kelly is a Speech & Language Therapist who specialises in working with people with social skills and relationship skills difficulties. She currently runs her own business providing social skills training and consultancy to schools and organisations across the UK and overseas.