Social Skills for Kids - by Janine Halloran (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

More than 75 easy and ready-to-use games and activities.

Bestselling author Janine Halloran has created a treasure chest of practical lessons to teach social skills by playing.

Halloran shares the best play experiences for kids to learn and practice social skills in real places and situations. This rich resource includes reproducible, step-by-step plans for how to play, alternatives to each activity, and debriefing questions to reinforce learning.

Learn new ideas for vital social skills development:

- Following directions

- Problem solving

- Working together

- Communication

- Being kind

- Making decisions

- Sharing

- Self-Regulation

About the Author

Janine Halloran is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 15 years of experience working with children and adolescents. She has worked in a variety of settings, including schools and outpatient mental health clinics. In 2013, Janine started Encourage Play, a website dedicated to encouraging kids to learn social skills through play. The topics of self-regulation and learning coping skills to deal with difficult feelings kept coming up as she was doing work for Encourage Play. Teaching coping skills has always been a passion of Janine's since she first started as a counselor and since she became a mother.