Skillstreaming the Adolescent: New Strategies and Perspectives for Teaching Prosocial Skills . - Revised Edition - Review - book review

Adolescence, Spring, 2000

GOLDSTEIN, Arnold P., & McGINNIS, Ellen. Skillstreaming the Adolescent: New Strategies and Perspectives for Teaching Prosocial Skills (Revised Edition). Champaign, IL: Research Press, 1997. 352pp. $17.95 (p).

Skillstreaming the Adolescent addresses the social skill needs of students who display aggression, immaturity, withdrawal, or other problem behaviors. This newly revised book offers up-to-date information for implementing the skillstreaming approach, which utilizes modeling, role playing, performance feedback, and transfer (homework). Students develop competence in dealing with interpersonal conflicts and learn to use self-control. The curriculum contains fifty skill lessons and includes six skill groups: beginning social skills, advanced social skills, dealing with feelings, alternatives to aggression, dealing with stress, and planning skills.