People Skills for Young Adults - Softcover

Marianna Cs¢ti has taught in the London Borough of Brent. She began writing for personal, social and health education when she moved to Wales; and has had three packs of Contentious Issues published for use in schools, as well as the book, Assertiveness for Young Adults. At present she is a houseparent in a residential international sixth-form college.

A truly amazing book. This book is formatted in a style to be used as sessions to help young people learn about social skills. Easy to follow and in about 1 hour various social skills can be worked on as a group. A real must-have-book for those who want to see our children mature successfully. Author: adders.org

This is a useful tool that could be utilised in many settings for social skills training with young adults. Author: British Journal of Occupational Therapy

This book provides session outlines for a social skills course for young adults with mild learning difficulties. The course is designed with clear guidelines for the group leader. The course has proved to be a valuable learning tool in the group sessions so far completed and generally there has been a positive response from participants. The overall style of the book is easy to read and could be used to dip in and out of for idea if there are particular one-to-one issues to address. This is a useful tool that could be utilised in many settings for social skills training with young adults. Author: British Journal of Occupational Therapy

This book is written to assist leaders teaching in life skills groups. It has three main teaching areas, friendship, social skills and assertion, 24 sessions and a brief section at the end on counselling including when professional help is appropriate. The book is well defined with clearly defined sessions and leaders notes. It is easy to read especially as a planning tool. This book is well set out with some pages, which can be photocopied for use within the group, Each teaching area could be used alone...This book would be a useful resource for a department especially if life skills/assertion courses are being set up for the first time. Author: OTPLD

This resource is a complete course in social skills for teenagers and particularly appropriate for those with mild learning difficulties. The course is made up of lots of situations for discussions, role-play and guidelines for course leaders making it easy for those who have not dealt with this subject before. The four main subjects covered in the course are friendship, social skills training, assertiveness and counselling. Included in these sections are making new friends, loneliness, barriers in friendship, social and relationship rules, self-confidence and shyness, saying no, compliments and complaints. This book contains much excellent material which would help many unconfident and wary teenagers. Author: Youthwork

The course is divided into three parts: part one deals with the nature and maintenance of friendship; part two with interpersonal social skills; part three with assertiveness -and believe it or not - 'counselling'. The aim here is not to produce young amateur counsellors so much as to foster the attainment of a deeper, more meaningful level of communication and support in personal relationships. Author: Counselling