Purchase Solution

Life Skills Groups Design for Teens

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

A brief description of group design for teens in junior high and high school. Topics are suggested given educational context in mind, including health, safety, counseling, identity formation, tolerance, prevention of risky behaviors, relationship conflicts and issues that teens experience during junior high and in high schools, as well as groups focused on life skills.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The Solution identifies appropriate life skills groups for teens in junior high and high school, useful for those studying to become teachers and counselors.

Solution Preview

Life Skills Groups for Teens (Junior high and high school students)

Designing and offering interactive and effective group on life skills to teens is an important service that school guidance counselors can offer to students in junior high and high school to students.

Such a group can be based on students' feedback on problem areas in their lives.

Junior high is a time in young adolescents' lives when they experience stress from feeling pressured to do well in school academically, have to handle peer influences, get attracted by and must avoid risky behaviors and will have parental relationship conflicts. These are all typically very common issues that stay on beyond junior high school age. Teens in high school feel the need to live their lives more independently and resist discipline by teachers and parents.

To help teens better manage stress in their lives, it is a great idea to have school based counseling support through appropriate life skills focused groups that can be designed and offered to all teens while they struggle in different areas on their lives.

Some of the topics which can addressed in ...

Solution provided by:
Saira Qureshi, MA
Education
  • BA, Rutgers, NJ
  • MA, NYU
Recent Feedback
  • "thank you"
  • "Thank you"
  • "Thank you Miss Saira."
  • "This is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
  • "Thanks"
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Educational Research: The Basics

This quiz provides a basic overview of terms typically use in educational research.

Infant Development

How much do you know about infant milestones? Find out with this quiz!

Assessment in Education

Short check for understanding about various assessment types in Education

Grit and Perseverance in Children

Building small humans is a daunting task. There is nothing more important than our impact on those around us, especially the smallest ones. This quiz offers a brief overview of different parenting modes and how to provide experiences for children to thrive!

Classroom Management

This quiz correlates with my eBook titled "Everything You Need to Know About Classroom Management." Test your skills on the benefits of sound classroom management practices.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Teenagers and groups

    These groups allow the teens to enjoy their likes and grow socially. The group prepares the teen for adult life, as socialization and communication are a core part of business and life itself.

  • Special Education Interview

    These programs offer a sense of belonging for teens. They can prevent a teen from turning to alternative social groups such as gangs in order to meet these needs. When teens gain self-esteem, they begin to respect themselves and others.

  • Cultural Influence and Adolescent Substance Abuse

    But this is not usually the case in other cultures and nations where strict practices are observed to 'prepare the teen' for a respectable adult life (i.e. in India, it is acceptable for parents to arrange for their teens to be married to ensure that

  • Research on Teen Independence

    This problem appears straightforward as it is asking you to present a workable research design for research on the topic of teen struggle for independence.

  • Stratified sampling - teen prostitution

    This allows you to manipulate the study by dividing the two sub-groups in the study into teens from affluent communities and those from impoverished communities.

  • Adolescents, drive, self-actualization - short answer

    - Engaging teens in journal or diary writing for weeks or months, for their monitoring of own feelings related to their personal and social interactions with other people - Offering opportunities for public speaking for teens to use them as a platform

  • Administrative Policies

    This service organizes projects for the youth to improve the safety of the community, increases the sense of responsibility towards preventing crime, teaching them life skills and making them aware of the costs and consequences of gang crimes.

  • Social & Environmental Plan for Reducing Youth at Risk

    Teens love to experiment and test out their independence; so it is imperative that the family stays connected to assist teens with healthy decision making skills that are applicable to real world situations. 2) Teens who form groups or gangs are struggling

  • adolescents have changed over the past 30 years

    Since kids are more prone to texting, messaging, and emailing, they lack some of the social skills that I used to see when I was a kid. Do you agree? I also think that teens are exposed to more social vices as a result of the Internet.

View More Related Solutions