Talkabout for Children 1

Talkabout for Children: Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem is a bestselling professional workbook supporting educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for children with social, emotional, or behavioural difficulties.

Self-awareness and self-esteem are essential prerequisites to developing social skills. As such, this book serves as an excellent first step in any social skills programme. This resource establishes the foundation of the Talkabout hierarchy, where self-awareness precedes non-verbal skills, non-verbal skills precede verbal skills, and assertiveness is developed last.

Resources include:

• An assessment framework
• Planning and evaluation forms
• A three-term intervention plan for schools
• Over 40 structured activity sessions focusing on self-awareness and self-esteem
• All the supplementary handouts and images needed to deliver the sessions

This second edition is presented with full-colour illustrations and handouts, and includes a new introduction by Alex Kelly, reflecting on her own experiences of using the resources since they were first developed.