Making Choices

Social Problem-Solving Skills for Children

Introduction

Getting Started

Unit 1: Learning About Emotions and Feelings
Lesson 1: Recognizing and Identifying Feelings
Lesson 2 Matching Feelings With Situations
Lesson 3 Identifying Physical Responses to Feelings
Lesson 4 Degrees of Feelings – Anger
Lesson 5 Recognizing and Managing Feelings
Lesson 6 Practicing Self-Talk
Unit Summary for Group Leaders

Unit 2: Encoding: Identifying Social Clues
Lesson 1 Situations and Cues
Lesson 2 Matching Feelings With Tone of Voice
Lesson 3 Noticing Multiple Cues
Lesson 4 Sequences of Cues
Unit Summary for Group Leaders

Unit 3: Interpretation:
Lesson 1: Recognizing Others’ Intention
Lesson 2: Distinguishing Intentions
Lesson 3: Distinguishing Intentional and Unintentional Behavior
Lesson 4 Situations, Meanings, and Problems
Unit Summary for Group Leaders

Unit 4: Goal Formulation and Refinement: Setting Social Goals
Lesson 1: What Is a Goal?
Lesson 2: Affective and Instrumental Goals
Lesson 3: Helpful and Harmful Goals
Lesson 4: Comparing and Contrasting Goals
Lesson 5: Setting Personal Goals
Unit Summary for Group Leaders

Unit 5: Response Search and Formulations Intervening Options
Lesson: 1: Goals and Actions
Lesson 2 Feelings and Actions
Lesson 3 Using Self-Talk to Generate Responses
Unit Summary for Group Leaders

Unit 6: Response Decision: Making a Choice
Lesson 1: Responses and Their Outcomes
Lesson 2: Harmful and Helpful Outcomes
Lesson 3 Confidence and Response Decision
Lesson 4: Choosing a Response
Unit Summary for Group Leaders

Unit 7: Enactment Acting On Choices
Lesson 1: Enacting a Response
Lesson 2 Putting It All Together – The Video
Lesson 3 Graduation and Saying Good-Bye

Summary

References

Appendix: Tables and Figures
Table 1: Social Information–Processing
Figure 1: Perspectives on Behavior
Figure 2. Single Social Information-processing Sequence
Figure 3 The Availability Heuristic and Interpretation
Figure 4 and 4A: Making Choices Problem Solving “Staircase”

Index