
Social Skills Across the Life Span
Theory, Assessment, and Intervention
Description
Key Features
- Identifies how social skills influence social competence and well being
- Addresses the full lifespan
- Reviews methods to assess and intervene with children and adults
- Details evidence-based interventions for children and adults
Readership
Clinical practitioners
Table of Contents
Part I: Theory
1. Defining Social Skills
Rachel L. Grover, Douglas W. Nangle, Michelle Buffie, and laura A. Andrews
2. Developing Social Skills
Julie Newman Kingery, Cynthia A. Erdley, and Emily Scarpulla
3. Linking Social Skills and Adjustment
Kimberly E. Kamper-DeMarco, Jessica Shankman, Eliot Fearey, Hannah R. Lawrence, and Rebecca A. Schwartz-Mette
Part II: Assessment and Intervention
4. Assessing Youth
Cynthia A. Erdley and Melissa S. Jankowski
5. Assessing Adults
Sarah Fischer, Peter J. Norton, William Spaulding, and James A. Courtney
6. Intervening with Youth
Laura A. Andrews, Rachel L. Grover, Michelle L. Buffie, and Douglas W. Nangle
7. Intervening with Adults
Samantha J. Gregus, Elissa R. Failes, Elizabeth Ramirez, Raegan Harrington, Phoebe Welcome, and Rebecca A. Schwartz-Mette
Part III: Social Skills Interventions
Section A: Children and Adolescents
8. Play Skills for Shy Preschoolers: A Social Skills Training and Facilitated Play (SST-FP) Early Intervention Program
Robert J. Coplan
9. The Fast Track Friendship Group Program
Karen L. Bierman
10. The PATHS Curriculum: Thirty-Five Years and Counting
Carol A. Kusché
11. Superheroes Social Skills
Keith C. Radley and Kate A. Helbig
12. School-Based Treatment for Children and Adolescents with Social Anxiety Disorder
Samantha Coyle, Farah Mahmud, Cody Weeks, and Carrie Masia Warner
13. The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS)
Emily Moulton and Elizabeth Laugeson
Section B: Adults
14. Emotional and Social Competence (ESC) for Adults: Keys for Health, Happiness, and Success
Carol A. Kusché, Anna-Lisa Mackey, and Julian B.R. Kusché
15. Charisma™: A virtual Reality Training to Promote Social BrainHealth in Adults
Tandra T. Allen, Lara Ashmore, Shelly Gordon, Aaron Tate,Lori G. Cook, and Sandra Bond Chapman
16. PREP4Work: A Social Skills Intervention to Prepare Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual
Disabilities to Access the Workplace
Jennifer Holloway, Helena Lydon, and Edith Walsh
17. Social Skills Training for Persons with Schizophrenia
Julia Browne, Kim T. Mueser, and Sarah I. Pratt
Product details
- No. of pages: 368
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: May 20, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128177525
- eBook ISBN: 9780128177532
About the Editors
Douglas Nangle
Affiliations and Expertise
Cynthia Erdley
Affiliations and Expertise
Rebecca Schwartz-Mette
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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Marfle B. Tue May 26 2020
Congratulations
Congrats on the new book!
Cam Tue May 26 2020
Yes please
congratulations with the new book!