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Area Mental Health Center's summer psychosocial program will allow your child to work on:

• Daily Problem Solving
  
  • How to identify problems
    
  • Learning how to deal with difficult & confusing situations
    
  • Develop and practice problem solving skills for quick implementation
    
  • Learn how to apply these skills in school to improve grades
    
• Social Skills
  
  • Following instructions
    
  • Accepting & giving criticism
    
  • Accepting "No" as an answer
    
  • Resisting Peer Pressure
    
  • Giving & Accepting compliments
    
  • Disagreeing appropriately
    
  • Making an apology
    
  • Interacting with peers
    
• Appropriate use of leisure time
  
  • Learning creative, inexpensive activities to do with friends or siblings without the television
    
  • Using the imagination
    
  • Participating in healthy, educational activities that are fun & entertaining
    
• Personal Relationships
  
  • Initiating friendships
    
  • Increase appropriate positive social interactions with peers
    
  • Replacing negative self talk statements with positive ones
    
  • Skills for maintaining positive relationships
    
  • Identifying and verbalizing ways in which one has been emotionally or physically hurt
    
  • Communication skills
    
  • Recognizing appropriate and inappropriate relationships
    
• Personal Health & Hygiene
  
  • Basic self care techniques
    
  • Importance of good hygiene
    
  • Eating healthy
    
  • Increase awareness of exercise and activity
    
  • Improve management of stress and anger through exercise and activities