Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child: A Guide for Teaching Prosocial Skills (with CD)

By Ellen McGinnis

Book Overview

Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child employs a four-part training approach-modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization-to teach essential prosocial skills to elementary school students. This book provides a complete description of the Skillstreaming program, with instructions for teaching 60 prosocial skills. Part 1: Skillstreaming Program Content and Implementation: Chapters on effective Skillstreaming arrangements, Skillstreaming teaching procedures, refining skill use, teaching for skill generalization, managing behavior problems, Skillstreaming in the school context, and more. Part 2: Skill Outlines and Homework Reports: Skill outlines are handy one-page summaries for each skill, including skill steps, guidelines for skill instruction, and suggested situations for modeling displays. Homework reports list skill steps and guide students in practicing the skills and evaluating skill use outside the Skillstreaming group. Skill Areas Classroom Survival Skills Friendship-Making Skills Skills for Dealing with Feelings Skill Alternatives to Aggression Skills for Dealing with Stress Appendixes provide all program forms needed to ensure a successful Skillstreaming intervention, plus leader and observer checklists to ensure program integrity.NOTE: It is essential for successful implementation of this curriculum to first have the program book (Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child) before attempting to utilize other Skillstreaming products.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878226559
• ISBN13: 9780878226559
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Research Press
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 2.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.7" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Good ideas for lessons

This is a very nice guide for teaching a large variety of social skills to elementary children. There is a bunch of information that I didn't really need, and I wish more of the book was dedicated to the "lessons", but overall it was very useful. The lessons are mainly short descriptions of each skill with ideas for instructing the skill. This cannot be used as a full lesson planner, but as a guide for developing classes/group sessions. Sold seperately, there are cards that go along with this guide, as well as a guide for younger children, both of which I would strongly recommend.

A wonderful resource

Skillstreaming is a wonderful resource for any mental health professional who works with young children. The book addresses practical problems that professionals encounter in schools, clinics, and residential settings. I especially like the authors' emphasis on behaviorally-based intervention. I also like the fact that the authors encourage professionals to assess and monitor their interventions to determine their effectiveness. In short, I highly recommend this book as a resource for child psychologists, school psychologists, counselors, teachers, and others who work with children.

Sound theory and clear explanations for the school worker.

I think this book, an update of the original which I have also read, gives clear and precise instructions for creating prosocial behavior groups and interventions. The principles behind the model espoused in this book are sound and effective. In the short time I have used this model in my groups, I have seen some slight but noticeable behavior changes in the students.