Respectful Communication and Social Skills for Children

RAINBOW ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Amy E. West ◽  
Sally M. Weinstein ◽  
Mani N. Pavuluri
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Treatment Protocol ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Good Friend

Session 7 of the RAINBOW treatment protocol focuses on helping the child develop communication skills to improve peer and family relationships (ingredient B: Be a good friend of RAINBOW), and the session is conducted primarily with the child. For various reasons, children with bipolar disorder often have poor communication skills. Like most other skills, however, social skills can be taught and learned. The therapist and the child practice ways of expressing feelings nonverbally (“Feelings Charades”) and other nonverbal communication skills (such as making eye contact, listening). In addition, respectful communication skills are developed and practiced, including instruction in “I Messages” for emotional expression.

scholarly journals Face emotion labeling deficits in children with bipolar disorder and severe mood dysregulation

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 529-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan A. Rich ◽  
Mary E. Grimley ◽  
Mariana Schmajuk ◽  
Karina S. Blair ◽  
R. J. R. Blair ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Manic Episode ◽  
Dysfunctional Family ◽  
Social Reciprocity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Severe Mood Dysregulation ◽  
Intensity Of Emotion ◽  
Mood Dysregulation

AbstractChildren with narrow phenotype bipolar disorder (NP-BD; i.e., history of at least one hypomanic or manic episode with euphoric mood) are deficient when labeling face emotions. It is unknown if this deficit is specific to particular emotions, or if it extends to children with severe mood dysregulation (SMD; i.e., chronic irritability and hyperarousal without episodes of mania). Thirty-nine NP-BD, 31 SMD, and 36 control subjects completed the emotional expression multimorph task, which presents gradations of facial emotions from 100% neutrality to 100% emotional expression (happiness, surprise, fear, sadness, anger, and disgust). Groups were compared in terms of intensity of emotion required before identification occurred and accuracy. Both NP-BD and SMD youth required significantly more morphs than controls to label correctly disgusted, surprised, fearful, and happy faces. Impaired face labeling correlated with deficient social reciprocity skills in NP-BD youth and dysfunctional family relationships in SMD youth. Compared to controls, patients with NP-BD or SMD require significantly more intense facial emotion before they are able to label the emotion correctly. These deficits are associated with psychosocial impairments. Understanding the neural circuitry associated with face-labeling deficits has the potential to clarify the pathophysiology of these disorders.

Promoting Social Skills and a Balanced Life for Parents

RAINBOW ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Amy E. West ◽  
Sally M. Weinstein ◽  
Mani N. Pavuluri
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Treatment Protocol ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Good Friend ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Lifestyle Activity

Session 8 of the RAINBOW treatment protocol focuses on promoting the child’s social skills as well as on enhancing parental self-care (ingredient B: Be a good friend and Balanced life for parents of RAINBOW), and it is conducted with the parent/caregiver(s). Parent(s) are provided with psychoeducation regarding the importance of friendships, and engaged in problem-solving to identify key opportunities to promote their child’s social skills as well as ways to minimize difficulties during stressful social situations. The session also focuses on parental well-being and how they can maximize their opportunities for parental self-care, via discussion and completion of a “balanced lifestyle” activity.

scholarly journals Recent Technologies to Improving Social and Communication Skills in Children with ASD: Systematization of Approaches and Methods

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albina Nesterova ◽  
Rimma Aysina ◽  
Tatjana Suslova
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Autistic People ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

<p>In the article recent technologies of formation and development of social and communication skills in children with autism spectrum disorders are analyzed. A systematic review summarizes the most effective and verified interventions of support to socialization of children with ASD: applied behavior analysis (ABA); cognitive-behavioral training (CBT); social stories method; social skills training (SST). We pay special attention to virtual technologies and video simulations so these methods allow to form social skills in children with ASD more efficiently and psychologically safe. Problems and prospects of using virtual technologies for children with ASD needs are discussed.<strong> </strong>The specificity of Russian practical experience and researches in development of heuristic technologies of development of social communication of persons with ASD is described: animal-assisted therapy, somatosensory correction, author art therapy and folk forms of intervention. On the basis of analytical work it is concluded that the gap between theory and practice needs to be neutralized, when scientifically unfounded practical developments are introduced in helping autistic people and researches of scientists are not always verified in an empirical manner.</p>

Integrating Written Text and Graphic Cues Into Peer-Mediated Interventions: Effects on Reciprocal Social Communication Skills

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
Todd M. Miller ◽  
Kathy Thiemann-Bourque
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Social Skills Instruction ◽  
Social Communication Skills ◽  
Text Cues ◽  
Peer Mediated Intervention

A growing body of evidence has supported the use of peer-mediated interventions to increase the social-communication skills of students with a variety of developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Despite these promising results, however, many practitioners may struggle to effectively implement peer-mediated interventions across the diverse presentation and skill profiles of students with ASD, specifically in accommodating the unique language and communication needs of their students. This article presents an example of integrating written-graphic and text cues into a peer-mediated intervention for three elementary-age students with ASD. Emphasis is placed on describing the teaching procedures used to encourage students with ASD and peers to participate in shared games and activities together, using written-graphic and text cues to support appropriate social communication. Additionally, strategies for selecting and including typically-developing peers to participate in social skills programming are reviewed. Data collected throughout the peer-mediated intervention demonstrates the positive effect of systematic social skills instruction for both students with disabilities and their peers.

Training Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Interview Skills to Adolescents

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 206-218
Author(s):  
Abbie Olszewski ◽  
Anna Panorska ◽  
Sandra Laing Gillam
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Performance Feedback ◽  
Study Skills ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Workforce Readiness ◽  
Program Language ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Ideal Student

Adolescents’ verbal and nonverbal communication skills were compared before and after training in a workforce readiness training program, Language for Scholars (LFS), and a study skills program, Ideal Student Workshop (ISW). A cross-over design was used, ensuring that 44 adolescents received both programs and acted as their own control. The LFS program incorporated aspects of modeling, operationalized behaviors, performance, feedback, and self-regulatory goal setting. The active comparison ISW program taught study skill strategies. Adolescents participated in three interviews before (Pretest) and after both programs (Posttest 1, Posttest 2). Findings revealed that both adolescents’ verbal and nonverbal communication skills improved significantly immediately after completion of the LFS program only at Posttest 1 and Posttest 2. However, only nonverbal communication skills improved at Posttest 1 when comparing results between LFS and ISW. Findings suggest that both programs yielded some positive outcomes for adolescents.

scholarly journals Umiejętności komunikacyjne dzieci z zespołem Downa

2018 ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
AGNIESZKA JĘDRZEJOWSKA
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Augmentative Communication ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Children With Down Syndrome ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research Show

Agnieszka Jędrzejowska, Umiejętności komunikacyjne dzieci z zespołem Downa [Communication skills of children with Down Syndrome]. Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej, nr 22, Poznań 2018. Pp. 201-218. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-391X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/ikps.2018.22.12 The purpose of this article is to present the results of research concern setting of functional cooperation with the interlocutor in children with Down syndrome in a peer group. Analysis of the results indicates the relationship between methods of therapy and development of children with Down syndrome. The methods of Alterantive and Augmentative Communication (AAC) are important in achieving success in building relationships for children with problems with verbal communication. Secondly, peer group is important to increase social skills. This research show that children with Downe syndrome need similar friends. This leads to the coclussion that group with homogeneous disability is area of development.

Adolescent Safety Behaviors and Social Anxiety: Links to Psychosocial Impairments and Functioning with Unfamiliar Peer Confederates

2021 ◽  
pp. 014544552110540
Author(s):  
Hide Okuno ◽  
Taylor Rezeppa ◽  
Tabitha Raskin ◽  
Andres De Los Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Socially Anxious ◽  
Research Personnel ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Social Skills Deficits ◽  
Multiple Domains

Socially anxious adolescents often endure anxiety-provoking situations using safety behaviors: strategies for minimizing in-the-moment distress (e.g., avoiding eye contact, rehearsing statements before entering a conversation). Studies linking safety behaviors to impaired functioning have largely focused on adults. In a sample of one hundred thirty-four 14 to 15 year-old adolescents, we tested whether levels of safety behaviors among socially anxious adolescents relate to multiple domains of impaired functioning. Adolescents, parents, and research personnel completed survey measures of safety behaviors and social anxiety, adolescents and parents reported about adolescents’ evaluative fears and psychosocial impairments, and adolescents participated in a set of tasks designed to simulate social interactions with same-age, unfamiliar peers. Relative to other adolescents in the sample, adolescents high on both safety behaviors and social anxiety displayed greater psychosocial impairments, evaluative fears, and observed social skills deficits within social interactions. These findings have important implications for assessing and treating adolescent social anxiety.

Affect Regulation Skills for Parents

RAINBOW ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 32-40
Author(s):  
Amy E. West ◽  
Sally M. Weinstein ◽  
Mani N. Pavuluri
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Emotional Reactivity ◽  
Treatment Protocol ◽  
At Home

Session 3 of the RAINBOW treatment protocol focuses on developing routines (ingredient R: Routine of RAINBOW) and improving affect regulation (ingredient A: Affect regulation of RAINBOW), and is conducted individually with the parent/caregiver(s). After a review of the previous week’s work by the therapist and parents, the parents are first engaged in a task to help establish predictable routines at home to minimize their child’s emotional reactivity. Parents are then encouraged to share their own feelings surrounding parenting a child with bipolar disorder. Last, the therapist and the parents develop ways to improve the identification, communication, and management of difficult feelings.

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