The PEERS Programme for young adults consists of 16 structured group sessions, focussed on teaching social skills to develop and maintain social relationships with others.
These group sessions include:
- Week 1: Trading information and starting conversations
- Week 2: Trading information and maintaining conversations
- Week 3: Finding a source of friends
- Week 4: Electronic communication
- Week 5: Appropriate use of humour
- Week 6: Entering group conversations
- Week 7: Exiting conversations
- Week 8: Get-togethers
- Week 9: Dating etiquette: Letting someone know you like them
- Week 10: Dating etiquette: Asking someone on a date
- Week 11: Going on dates
- Week 12: Dating etiquette: Dating do’s and don’ts
- Week 13: Handling disagreements
- Week 14: Handling direct bullying
- Week 15: Handling indirect bullying
- Week 16: Moving forward and graduation
And Pre-Treatment Assessments and Post Treatment Assessment and Feedback
Format
Sessions are taught once per week for 90 minutes, with the social coaching group taught concurrently.
Sessions include
Sessions with the young adults are formatted to include:
- Didactic lessons using concrete rules and steps for a given social skill.
- Role play demonstrations.
- Perspective taking questions based on role play demonstrations.
- Behavioural rehearsal exercises in order to practise the skills being taught with performance feedback
- Homework assignment.
- Homework review.
Sessions with the social coaches include:
- Homework review
- Presentation of the didactic Lessons and role play demonstrations being taught.
- Review of lesson and homework with teenagers/young adults.
Apply
Contact us for a 15 minute phone consultation with a member of our staff.
You will then receive an enrolment pack to complete ahead of a 1 hour intake appointment to determine the suitability of PEERS for you.