Skillstreaming in Early Childhood: A Guide for Teaching Prosocial Skills

Skillstreaming in Early Childhood employs a four-part training approach; modelling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalisation; to teach essential prosocial skills to pre-school and kindergarten-age children. This book provides a complete description of the Skillstreaming program, with instructions for teaching 40 prosocial skills.

Part 1: Skillstreaming Program Content and Implementation

Chapters on effective Skillstreaming arrangements, Skillstreaming teaching procedures, refining skill use, teaching for skill generalisation, managing behaviour 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 modelling displays. Homework reports list skill steps and guide students in practising the skills and evaluating skill use outside the Skillstreaming group.

Skill Areas • Beginning Social Skills • School-Related Skills • Friendship-Making Skills • Dealing with Feelings • Alternatives to Aggression • Dealing with Stress

This widely acclaimed approach developed by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein and colleagues is now in 8½×11 format with reproducible skill outlines, skill homework reports, and program forms.

Reproducible forms and handouts for this title are available from a downloads page.

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Table of Contents

Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

• Social Skills and the Preschool and Kindergarten Child
• What Is Skillstreaming?
• Skills for Kindergarten and Preschool Children
• Teaching Prosocial Skills
• Understanding Violence and Aggression
• Included in This Book

PART 1 - Skillstreaming Program Content and Implementation

Chapter 1—Effective Skillstreaming Arrangements

• Group Leader Selection and Preparation
• Student Selection and Grouping
• Support Staff and Program Coordinator Roles
• Parent Involvement
• Specific Instructional Concerns
• Instructional Variations

Chapter 2—Skillstreaming Teaching Procedures

• Core Teaching Procedures
• Steps in the Skillstreaming Session
• Implementation Integrity

Chapter 3—Sample Skillstreaming Session

• Introduction to Skillstreaming
• Skill Instruction

Chapter 4—Refining Skill Use

• Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies
• Factors in Successful Skill Use
• Skill Shifting, Combinations, Adaptation, and Development

Chapter 5—Teaching for Skill Generalization

• Transfer-Enhancing Procedures
• Maintenance-Enhancing Procedures

Chapter 6—Managing Behavior Problems

• Universal Strategies
• Targeted Interventions
• Individual Interventions

Chapter 7—Building Positive Relationships with Parents

• Parenting and Children’s Aggression
• Parent Involvement in Skillstreaming
• Levels of Parent Involvement

Chapter 8—Skillstreaming in the School Context

• Violence Prevention
• Schoolwide Applications of Skillstreaming
• Integration in the Curriculum
• Inclusion
• Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
• New Intervention Combinations

PART 2 - Skill Outlines and Homework Reports

Homework reports follow each skill.

Group I: Beginning Social Skills

1. Listening
2. Using Nice Talk
3. Using Brave Talk
4. Saying Thank You
5. Rewarding Yourself
6. Asking for Help
7. Asking a Favor
8. Ignoring

Group II: School-Related Skills

9. Asking a Question
10. Following Directions
11. Trying When It’s Hard
12. Interrupting

Group III: Friendship-Making Skills

13. Greeting Others
14. Reading Others
15. Joining In
16. Waiting Your Turn
17. Sharing
18. Offering Help
19. Asking Someone to Play
20. Playing a Game

Group IV: Dealing with Feelings

21. Knowing Your Feelings
22. Feeling Left Out
23. Asking to Talk
24. Dealing with Fear
25. Deciding How Someone Feels
26. Showing Affection

Group V: Alternatives to Aggression

27. Dealing with Teasing
28. Dealing with Feeling Mad
29. Deciding If It’s Fair
30. Solving a Problem
31. Accepting Consequences

Group VI: Dealing with Stress

32. Relaxing
33. Dealing with Mistakes
34. Being Honest
35. Knowing When to Tell
36. Dealing with Losing
37. Wanting to Be First
38. Saying No
39. Accepting No
40. Deciding What to Do

Appendix A— Program Forms

Appendix B—Program Integrity Checklists

• Leader’s Checklist
• Observer’s Checklist
• Generalization Integrity Checklist

Appendix C—Behavior Management Techniques

References

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