Social Skills Group

This group provides kids with opportunities to positively interact and relate with other kids, improve social skills, boost self-esteem, learn to problem solve, feel empowered, enhance creativity, and manage behaviors and emotions. Each group will focus on a specific social skill from the areas of classroom survival, friendship making, dealing with feelings, alternatives to aggression, and dealing with stress. Discussion of skill steps, modeling of the skill, and role plays will be implemented. A creative art activity will also be utilized each group that focuses on expressing thoughts, feelings, and experiences related to the skill.