Social Skills Training for Adolescents with General Moderate Learning Difficulties -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Choice of Social Skills Training programmes -- Strategies for using Social Skills Training programmes -- Behavioural approaches -- Cognitive approaches -- Distinguishing between public and private -- Developing language skills -- Coping with real life -- Need for practice -- Aims of the programme set out in this book -- National Curriculum Link -- Part 1: How to start -- Needs analysis -- Social Skills Checklist -- Interviews -- Observations -- Sociograms -- Part 2: The Training Programme -- Introduction: Planning the sessions -- Session format -- Physical organization -- Communication with parents, carers and teachers -- Timing of each session -- Session 1: Listening and paying attention -- Session 2: Listening and turn-taking -- Session 3: Monitoring own body language and reading body language in others -- Session 4: Recognizing own and others' strengths -- Session 5: Learning to say no to unreasonable demands and to cope with peer pressure -- Session 6: Recognizing and describing feelings -- Session 7: Learning to control own feelings -- Session 8: Being confident to explain own views and to ask for support when needed -- Session 9: Recognizing and learning to resolve conflict -- Session 10: Showing care and concern for others -- Index.