Second Step

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Second Step

• Second Step is a popular SEL program for
  elementary school populations
• Second Step focuses on three skill areas
• Empathy training
• Impulse control
• Anger management
• Teachers use card stimulus materials to
  demonstrate ideas and engage children in
  discussion and skill development

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Unit I Empathy Training

• Empathy is the ability to
• Determine the emotional state of the other
• Assume the perspective and role of the other
• Respond emotionally to another
• Empathy is the key ingredient in developing
  prosocial behaviors
• Empathy is developed in a series of progressive
  steps

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Unit I Empathy Training

• Teaching Strategies
• Identify feelings from a variety of physical and
  situational cues
• Recognize that people have difference feelings
  about the same things
• Recognize that feelings change and why this is so
• Differentiate intentional from unintentional acts
• Communicate feelings using I messages
• Express care and concern for others

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Unit 2 Impulse Control

• Impulse control means to stop and think through a
  problem rather than doing the first thing that
  comes to mind.
• This unit focuses on problem-solving and
  behavioral skills training
• There is a strong emphasis on modeling, role
  playing, performance feedback, reinforcement, and
  transfer of training

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Unit 2 Impulse Control

• The Problem-Solving approach has five steps
• What is the problem?
• What are some solutions?
• For each solution ask
• Is it safe?
• Is it fair?
• How might people feel?
• Will it work?
• Choose a solution and use it
• Is it working? If not, what can I do now?

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Unit 2 Impulse Control

• Behavioral Skills training helps students develop
  behavioral repertoires for problematic situations
• Joining in
• Ignoring distractions
• Interrupting politely
• Dealing with wanting something that isnt yours
• Asking for help in a positive way
• Playing a game
• Asking permission

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Unit 3 Anger Management

• Anger management is a compilation of stress
  reduction techniques for channeling ones anger
  into socially acceptable directions
• Uses self-talk or thinking out loud to guide
  ones behavior seeking to reverse escalation by
  substituting positive coping statements

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Unit 3 Anger Management

• What to Do When You Are Angry
• 1. How does my body feel?
• Students recognize sensations that tell them they
  are angry
• 2. Calm down
• Students apply anger reduction techniques
• 3. Think out loud to solve the problem
• 4. Think about it later
• Students reflect on the incident and evaluate
  their performance