The social thinking skills that the young adults are expected to learn from session 6 is how to run a conversation in a group setting and specifically on how to enter a group conversation with accepting peers. The young adults will review some of the basic social skills that they already learned in previous sessions (how to find source of friends, start a conversation and trading information) before they learn the social skill in this session.
After that, the young adults will learn the importance of talking to people that they want to make friends with in order to get to know them a little bit better. Therapist will also point out to the young adults that most of the advices that they received on this matter are often wrong. Then, the therapist …show more content…
I also have to take into account that it might be an anxiety-provoking moments for my mentees. I am planning to start by revisiting the topic of social group again with my mentees and find out whether they already involved in any social group or not. It is because, this is a foundation to make sure that they can enter group conversation that can readily accept them. During my first meeting with my mentees early in the semester, both of them expressed how badly they want to make new friends. So, I want to attract their attention to learn this skill by mentioning to them that the skill of knowing how to enter a conversation is an essential social skill make and keeping friends. Then, I will jot down each of the steps on a paper and explain to them the purpose of each of those steps and I will make sure that I mention each of the steps multiple times to make it easier for them to remember those steps. Then, I will use role-play demonstration to make sure they understand the do and don’ts of entering a conversation and followed by asking perspective-taking questions. To make them apply the steps of entering group conversation, I will ask my mentees to meet my friends or go to any places which they can meet their potential social group. When I am doing this, …show more content…
Firstly, with the help of the therapist, the young adults will learn that there will be people that do not want to talk to us even though we follow all the steps needed to enter a group conversation—it is a common thing and they will be reminded to still continue trying to enter group conversation in the future if this happen. After that, the young adults will learn some reasons why they are not being accepted in a conversation and how important it is to reevaluate what we did and identify what they can do differently next time. Some of the possible reasons why the young adults are not being accepted in conversations are; they are being rude, broke the rules of entering conversation, the group talking about something that the young adults’ not familiar with, they have a bad reputation with the group etc. These reasons will be followed by things that they can do differently next time if they think that they are not being accepted in conversation. After that, the young adults will learn the steps of exiting a conversation in three different types of exiting conversations. First, they will learn how to exit a conversation when they were never accepted to join and talk with the group. In this situation, young adults will learn the importance of acting cool by not being upset and force the group to talk to them because it will lead them to be
After that, the young adults will learn the importance of talking to people that they want to make friends with in order to get to know them a little bit better. Therapist will also point out to the young adults that most of the advices that they received on this matter are often wrong. Then, the therapist …show more content…
I also have to take into account that it might be an anxiety-provoking moments for my mentees. I am planning to start by revisiting the topic of social group again with my mentees and find out whether they already involved in any social group or not. It is because, this is a foundation to make sure that they can enter group conversation that can readily accept them. During my first meeting with my mentees early in the semester, both of them expressed how badly they want to make new friends. So, I want to attract their attention to learn this skill by mentioning to them that the skill of knowing how to enter a conversation is an essential social skill make and keeping friends. Then, I will jot down each of the steps on a paper and explain to them the purpose of each of those steps and I will make sure that I mention each of the steps multiple times to make it easier for them to remember those steps. Then, I will use role-play demonstration to make sure they understand the do and don’ts of entering a conversation and followed by asking perspective-taking questions. To make them apply the steps of entering group conversation, I will ask my mentees to meet my friends or go to any places which they can meet their potential social group. When I am doing this, …show more content…
Firstly, with the help of the therapist, the young adults will learn that there will be people that do not want to talk to us even though we follow all the steps needed to enter a group conversation—it is a common thing and they will be reminded to still continue trying to enter group conversation in the future if this happen. After that, the young adults will learn some reasons why they are not being accepted in a conversation and how important it is to reevaluate what we did and identify what they can do differently next time. Some of the possible reasons why the young adults are not being accepted in conversations are; they are being rude, broke the rules of entering conversation, the group talking about something that the young adults’ not familiar with, they have a bad reputation with the group etc. These reasons will be followed by things that they can do differently next time if they think that they are not being accepted in conversation. After that, the young adults will learn the steps of exiting a conversation in three different types of exiting conversations. First, they will learn how to exit a conversation when they were never accepted to join and talk with the group. In this situation, young adults will learn the importance of acting cool by not being upset and force the group to talk to them because it will lead them to be