STOP THINK DO Social Skills Training: Supplement for middle years of schooling ages 12-15

Description

STOP THINK DO is an Australian social skills programme for use in schools with children who have emotional-social-behavioural difficulties that affect their ability to make friends. It is also designed as a classroom curriculum for children to prevent such difficulties arising. It develops a positive social culture in classrooms, particularly because teachers are modelling the same skills they teach students. The academic progress of children is also facilitated by a co-operative classroom.

STOP THINK DO develops emotional and social intelligence in children as they learn how to understand and control their feelings at STOP, how to think about their options and likely consequences at THINK, how to behave appropriately at DO, and how to be motivated to use these skills in all social situations in their lives.

The programme includes 12 lessons covering a wide range of social skills.

Lessons are divided into the following 6 units:

• Self awareness and identity
• Good and bad communication
• Thinking and problem solving
• Morals and values
• Decision making and friendship skills
• Pressures and responsibilities