AutPlay® Therapy Play and Social Skills Groups: A 10-Session Model

AutPlay® Therapy Play and Social Skills Groups provides practitioners with a step-by-step guide for implementing a social skills group to help children and adolescents with autism improve on their play and social skills deficits in a fun and engaging way.

This unique 10-session group model incorporates the AutPlay Therapy approach focused on relational and behavioural methods. Group setup, protocol, and structured play therapy interventions are presented and explained for easy implementation by professionals. Also included are parent implemented interventions that allow parents and/or caregivers to become co-change agents in the group process and learn how to successfully implement AutPlay groups.

Any practitioner or professional who works with children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder will find this resource to be a unique and valuable guide to effectively implementing social skills groups.

Table of Contents

Author Biographies

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter One: Autism Spectrum Disorder

Chapter Two: Social Skills

Chapter Three: AutPlay® Therapy and Social Skills

Chapter Four: AutPlay® Therapy Play Groups and Social Skills Groups

Chapter Five: AutPlay® Therapy Play Groups (10 session model)

Chapter Six: AutPlay® Therapy Social Skills Groups (10 session model)

Chapter Seven: Additional Social Skills Interventions for Children and Adolescents

Chapter Eight: Conclusion

Key Terms

Appendix

References