The Peers(r) Curriculum for School Based Professionals: Social Skills Training for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Laugeson, Elizabeth A.

The PEERS Curriculum for School-Based Professionals: Social Skills Training for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415626965)

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The Peers(r) Curriculum for School Based Professionals: Social Skills Training for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Laugeson, Elizabeth A.

The PEERS Curriculum for School-Based Professionals: Social Skills Training for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

$69.95
The Peers(r) Curriculum for School Based Professionals: Social Skills Training for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Laugeson, Elizabeth A.

The PEERS Curriculum for School-Based Professionals: Social Skills Training for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

$69.95
Format: Paperback
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The PEERS(R) Curriculum for School-Based Professionals brings UCLA's highly acclaimed and widely popular PEERS program into the school setting. This sixteen-week program, clinically proven to significantly improve social skills and social interactions among teens with autism spectrum disorder, is now customized for the needs of psychologists, counselors, speech pathologists, administrators, and teachers. The manual is broken down into clearly divided lesson plans, each of which have concrete rules and steps, corresponding homework assignments, plans for review, and unique, fun activities to ensure that teens are comfortable incorporating what they've learned. The curriculum also includes parent handouts, tips for preparing for each lesson, strategies for overcoming potential pitfalls, and the research underlying this transformative program.



Author: Elizabeth A. Laugeson
ISBN-10: 041562696X
ISBN-13: 9780415626965
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2013
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 10.60h x 8.30w x 1.20d
By Elizabeth A. Laugeson
By Elizabeth A. Laugeson
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Elizabeth A. Laugeson, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and an assistant clinical professor in the department of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Dr. Laugeson is the director of The Help Group - UCLA Autism Research Alliance, a collaborative research initiative dedicated to developing and expanding applied clinical research in the treatment of children and adolescents with ASD. She is also the founder and director of the UCLA PEERS(R) Clinic, an outpatient hospital-based program providing parent-assisted social skills training for adolescents and young adults with ASD, as well as youths with ADHD, depression, anxiety, and other social impairments.

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