Before explaining more about social coaching, let’s review some social skills described by Dr. Ronald Rapee and his colleagues in the book, “Helping Your Anxious Child.” These include skills related ...

Students will struggle to fully develop their social-emotional skills if the adults around them are not modeling strong skills themselves. This is why expert after expert will say that school or ...

We all remember what it felt like to be a teenager. For some of us, that meant loneliness and isolation. We sulked around the house because there was no one to hang out with, confide in, share their ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — For Logan Stites, a sixth-grader diagnosed with ADHD and other conditions, learning to make friends didn't come naturally. But a Portland-area program is changing that for him and ...

Educators have a pretty bleak outlook on how social media is affecting their students’ social-emotional skills and overall well-being. And that bleak outlook carries over to their adult colleagues as ...

Are children born with an impulse to be social? It’s commonly believed that children are born, morally, as blank slates and must be taught from an early age to be prosocial. But while parents should ...