Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders

Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders

Here is a guide for therapists, counselors, psychologists, educators, and other practitioners to incorporate the teaching of social skills as a component of treatment for children diagnosed with mental health disorders. Research and experience show that children and adolescents who struggle with emotional, behavioral and social problems do improve when they learn prosocial skills. Included is an introduction to the DSM-IV-TR and other mental health assessment and evaluation tools and guidance for how to individualize treatment plans while considering children's developmental, cultural, behavioral, emotional social, genetic, and biological variables. Following a discussion of the importance and effectiveness of skill teaching in the treatment of mental health disorders, the authors provide a series of charts that list the social skills that caregivers and treatment providers might target for each of more than a hundred DSM-IV-TR diagnoses common for children and adolescents. Examples of treatment plans show how social skills can be integrated into plans across different settings and levels of care - home and school, foster care, residential group home, and psychiatric facility. Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders can help and encourage any professional striving to improve the lives of troubled youth.
Country USA
Brand Boys Town Press
Manufacturer Boys Town Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
Model illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781934490105
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Boys Town Press
Manufacturer	Boys Town Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
Model	illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781934490105
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders

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