Location:
Group Therapy - York County
WellSpan Health
York, PA 17401
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Description:
Is your child showing difficulty interacting with others? Is your child isolating themselves due to not knowing how to interact with other children their own age? There are many children who are uncomfortable in a social setting. Luckily, there are many skills that can be used to improve the quality of their conversations. Skills can also be used to help your child work up their ability to communicate with others. Social Skills is a group that uses discussions, role play, games and other techniques to help your child learn necessary skills for a social setting. This group can also help foster generalization skills. Group sessions will focus on:
- Providing necessary social skills to targeted population
- Discussions, role play, games, etc.
- Different modalities to foster generalization skills
Group members must be between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. To ensure group appropriateness, new participants may be invited to meet with a group leader individually before starting group sessions. Group members should also have the ability to communicate effectively in a group format. The child must have a current diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder level 1 or ADHD to be enrolled. Group members may not have active psychosis, active addiction or active suicide/homicide ideations.
Current Philhaven patients should talk to their provider. For new Philhaven patients, please call (717) 279-2760 or (800) 459-7497.
Ages:
Minimum age: 5 Maximum age: 10
Instructions:
This virtual group meets on Mondays from 4:30 to 5:30 pm with group leader Mary Summers, LPC. While all efforts will be made to assist you in entering a group as quickly as possible, you may need to be temporarily added to a waitlist.
