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Patricia Einbender Patricia Einbender

It Takes Time To Connect

At Therapeutic Options, we set up social skills groups to meet every week throughout the school year. While this may seem like a long time, especially when compared to providers who offer smaller, shorter sessions of six- to eight- week sessions, we have found through our extensive experience that the full-year sessions provide greater benefits to our students.

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Mark Pesner Mark Pesner

Concerned About Your Child’s Social Skills?

In his book Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman says that the two critical components to social success are the ability to take another person’s point of view and the ability to control one’s impulses. As parents, we are sometimes concerned about how our children are getting along with others. How do you know if your child is having difficulties socially? What might be the reasons for this difficulty?

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