This webinar will focus on the practical skills needed to help children and adolescents with developmental disabilities such as autism spectrum disorders. The goal in this webinar is to teach about practical socialization skills in individual and group settings to do such things as: build friendships, transfer acquaintances to friendship relationships, avoiding behaviors that may serve to distance possible relationships as well as appropriate skills necessary for the real world. In additions, we will discuss what works in applications from instruction with social skills and what may not create difficulty from instruction to "real world" application. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Analyze and relate signs, risk factors, and symptoms of suicide specific to the school setting
Describe means of working towards social skills strengths versus deficits
Recognize and assess the usage of the four main components of social skills
Describe how to de-escalate anger and frustration and how they act to impede social skills within individuals with developmental disabilities
9:30 am Welcome/Introduction
9:40 am Working Towards Social Strengths -vs- Deficits
10:10 am What Makes Social Skills Program Effective?
10:40 am Digital Citizenship and Social Skills
11:10 am Cognitive Distortions and Socializing
11:40 am The Big Four Of Social Skills
12:10 pm Vocational Skills and Socialization
12:25 pm Conclusion/Q&A