AutPlay® Therapy Play and Social Skills Groups

Download or read book AutPlay® Therapy Play and Social Skills Groups written by Robert Jason Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 behavioral 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.