Learning Problem Solving with Friends - Compassion Skills: A Comprehensive Curriculum for Taking Others' Perspective and Solving Daily Social Problems

Learning Problem Solving with Friends - Compassion Skills is part of a comprehensive problem-solving curriculum. This book focuses on compassion skills as the target skills for problem-solving, which include four sub-skills:(a) offering help,(b) telling white lies,(c) making a concession, sharing, taking turns, etc., and(d) stopping an action or a topic.From this book, Learners will learn to flexibly generate strategies using visualization (i.e., the Problem-Solving Map), relational framing such as perspective-taking (Hayes et al., 2001), and talk-aloud about the thinking and planning process (Glass, 1992; Johnson & Chung, 1999), to effectively solve the following four corresponding types of novel social problems through multiple picture stories: (a) Others need help,(b) Telling the truth may hurt others' feelings,(c) There are conflicts of interest due to a lack of resources.(d) One's behaviour makes others not comfortable.The curriculum is based on Contextual Behavioral Science (CBS). Read more