Social problems for children and adolescents are complex and confusing but this highly structured and engaging curriculum will find solutions. The positive style and engaging material will facilitate friendships and the communication of emotions that will be greatly appreciated by the child, parents and teachers.

The POWER-Solving® curriculum is built on a strong conceptual foundation. It is well-organized, easy-to-use, and based upon evidenced based practices. The Discuss-Demonstrate-Do Model ensures that learners truly develop the skills to solve everyday social problems with confidence. This curriculum is a must for learners who experience social challenges.

Finally, a next-generation of social problem solving curriculum materials! POWER-Solving® gives children and teens essential skills for dealing with large and small issues in their lives in ways that will make them more interpersonally effective. And that will make everyone around them – peers, parents, and teachers – a lot happier.

POWER-Solving® reflects the latest in research, which says that social problem solving skills and the ability to make social conversations, manage anger, and develop friendships are the key to remediating an array of behavior problems and promoting positive outcomes in children and youth. It’s no coincidence that there are modules and excellent, user-friendly materials in all of these areas.

Let yourself be guided by two of the nation’s leading experts in child and adolescent clinical psychology, who have taken their outstanding interventions and captured them brilliantly and accessibly in a clear facilitator’s workbook and coordinated, systematic curriculum materials for youth.

This is the social problem solving curriculum I have been waiting for — clinically tested, clear, concise, uncomplicated to implement, and feasible. I give it my strongest recommendation.

The POWER-Solving® curriculum allows for practical application to the natural environment. The materials are readily comprehensible and allow for quick understanding and implementation, even for inexperienced teachers. This material is easily modifiable to meet individual needs of the students.

The POWER-Solving® curriculum has been an invaluable resource for our district’s social skills program. Its concise and highly structured format allows for consistent implementation across classrooms and is easily adaptable for various age groups. All of our students benefit from the curriculum’s focus on social problem solving which can be readily applied to a multitude of situations. Teachers and parents alike have noted positive behavior change from students who developed friendship-making and emotion regulation skills with the help of the POWER-Solving® materials.

The POWER-Solving curriculum is a great resource for educators and parents. The scope and sequence of the lessons are organized perfectly as each step of POWER-Solving is introduced to the students. The home application activities allow educators and parents to work collaboratively as well as to increase the opportunities for generalization and fluency of the skills that have been directly and explicitly taught, modeled, and practiced in the classroom.

As inferred by the title, “POWER-Solving” socially empowers our son in numerous ways. The tangible results are that our son has greatly improved his conversational skills, both initiative and responsive. He is confident in making comments, asking questions, and having appropriate conversations. Our son understands manners, and his eye contact is improved. He is more attuned to understanding his own feelings, emotions and responses, and those of others. He understands various situational social difficulties and has tools to use in resolving these issues. The intangible results appear very frequently in pleasantly, surprising, spontaneous ways through appropriate conversation and behavior.

My son and daughter have attended the HI-STEP Summer Program. This program has been instrumental in teaching my children strategies in problem solving especially in social arenas. The POWER-Solving curriculum gives our kids specific tools and steps to problem solve various social and non-social issues. My daughter used all the tools she had learned at HI-STEP. She has used the Problem Solving Program during her entire school year. She now also advocates for other special needs kids at her school.My son also uses the POWER-Solving Program for approaching homework assignments to participating in school events. It has also helped him in preparing for college and getting his driver’s permit. He has grown in confidence and has matured in his thought processing. He has made more of an effort to talk to his peers, teachers and family.

I have seen over the past few years a direct correlation to the children’s success in various social situations. The POWER-Solving Program builds confidence, Independence and provides tools for our kids who struggle especially socially. These new skills I know will help my kids in future employment and other social venues.