Sentences with phrase «simply teaching social skills»

For example, simply teaching social skills to an incarcerated youth who has a history of stealing, fighting, and gang involvement will have little effect on his or her behavior upon returning to an environment that continues to include antisocial friends, drug - using parents, a crime - ridden neighborhood, or an inadequate school.

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If adults simply let them do what they're naturally inclined to do — mess around in the yard, digging, climbing, chasing, jumping — then there would be less need for social skills groups, special breathing techniques, coping strategies, and exercises to «teach» young kids how to focus and sit still, not to mention the countless psychotropic medications given to American kids.