Making choices : social problem-solving skills for children / Mark W. Fraser ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fraser, Mark W., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialization.

Social skills in children.

Physical Description:

viii, 188 pages : illustrations, forms ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : NASW Press, [2000]

Summary:

Social work students and practitioners often complain about the dearth of literature on practice with children. Mark Fraser and his co-authors have filled this void, writing an exciting book about helping children make choices in the ways they express themselves. Extremely readable, Making Choices: Social Problem-Solving Skills for Children presents an approach to working with children in groups and in their classrooms. In a step-by-step manner, the authors instruct the reader how to organize a program and present it to groups; how to specify goals and objectives; how to incorporate specific activities; and how to evaluate progress. Making Choices teaches children to think while acting and to develop alternatives to aggression and violence.

Contents:

Unit 1 Learning About Emotions and Feelings 34

Lesson 1 Recognizing and Identifying Feelings 35

Lesson 2 Matching Feelings With Situations 39

Lesson 3 Identifying Physical Responses to Feelings 43

Lesson 4 Degrees of Feelings

Anger 49

Lesson 5 Recognizing and Managing Feelings 57

Lesson 6 Practicing Self-Talk 63

Unit 2 Encoding: Identifying Social Clues 68

Lesson 1 Situations and Cues 69

Lesson 2 Matching Feelings With Tone of Voice 72

Lesson 3 Noticing Multiple Cues 74

Lesson 4 Sequences of Cues 76

Unit 3 Interpretation: Making Sense of Social Clues 80

Lesson 1 Recognizing Others' Intentions 81

Lesson 2 Distinguishing Intentions 95

Lesson 3 Distinguishing Intentional and Unintentional Behavior 102

Lesson 4 Situations, Meanings, and Problems 109

Unit 4 Goal Formulation and Refinement: Setting Social Goals 113

Lesson 2 Affective and Instrumental Goals 121

Lesson 3 Helpful and Harmful Goals 124

Lesson 4 Comparing and Contrasting Goals 127

Lesson 5 Setting Personal Goals 134

Unit 5 Response Search and Formulation: Inventing Options 139

Lesson 1 Goals and Actions 140

Lesson 2 Feelings and Actions 143

Lesson 3 Using Self-Talk to Generate Responses 145

Unit 6 Response Decision: Making a Choice 152

Lesson 1 Responses and Their Outcomes 153

Lesson 2 Harmful and Helpful Outcomes 156

Lesson 3 Confidence and Response Decision 160

Lesson 4 Choosing a Response 164

Unit 7 Enactment: Acting On Choices 173

Lesson 1 Enacting a Response 175

Lesson 2 Putting It All Together

The Video 178

Lesson 3 Graduation and Saying Good-Bye 182

Table 1 Social Information-Processing 190

Figure 1 Perspectives on Behavior 192

Figure 2 Single Social Information-processing Sequence 193

Figure 3 The Availability Heuristic and Interpretation 194

Figure 4 and 4A Making Choices Problem Solving "Staircase" 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-179) and index.

ISBN:

0871013231

OCLC:

45015522