The Social Well-Being Workbook is designed to help your clients strengthen existing social well-being traits and develop new attitudes to further improve their social well-being. With your facilitation, your participants will complete the assessments, activities and exercises in this workbook, and will develop and enhance a full spectrum of social skills. Social health has become increasingly more important within the overall concept of human health and wellness. Positive and effective social interaction, a basic component of society, is important for individuals to master, especially when managing stress and/or overcoming illness. An inability to form and maintain relationships can be detrimental to a person’s health and well-being. Socially healthy people are able to relate well to others, genuinely care for all people regardless of their cultural characteristics, and willingly reach out to other people. They are contributing members of their community and are a part of the social networks of others. The Social Well-Being Workbook is designed to help your clients understand how social well-being can build personal and professional success, reduce stress and enhance overall life satisfaction. The seven sections of the workbook include: Section 1 – Relationships This section will help participants explore and understand their current relationships with people in the community, partners, family members, co-workers and friends. Thought-provoking, user-friendly activity handouts will help them to improve relationships in all areas of their life and career. Section 2 – Diversity This section will help participants examine how they accept, respect and value diversity in themselves and other people. Thought-provoking, user-friendly activity handouts will allow them to examine how they value diversity in professional and personal relationships. Section 3 –Intimacy This section will help participants gauge how they are demonstrating physical, intellectual and emotional intimacy in their relationships. Thought-provoking, user-friendly activity handouts will help participants to further develop intimacy skills to deepen existing and future relationships. Section 4 – Interactions This section will help participants explore their interactions with other people. Thought-provoking, user-friendly activity handouts will assist in accentuating styles of interacting to develop stronger relationships. Section 5 – Media This section will help participants explore how they experience virtual (online, telephone) relationships and in-person relationships. Thought-provoking, user-friendly activity handouts will promote a healthy balance to meet all relationship needs. Section 6 – Caring This section will help participants explore how they care about others and the ways they show this caring. Thought-provoking, user-friendly activity handouts promote altruism and caring about other people and societal needs. Section 7 – Support This section helps participants explore their support systems. Thought-provoking, user-friendly activity handouts are provided to develop and use a healthy social support system with others. All of the worksheets, assessments and activities are reproducible for your convenience. Also available: Social Well-Being Card Deck Need a creative way to start your session? Use the Social Well-Being Card Deck. The open-ended questions will break the ice and stimulate conversation. Use them alone or in conjunction with the corresponding page in the book. About the Authors: Ester Leutenberg has worked in the mental health profession for many years as an author, publisher and as an advocate for those suffering from loss. She personally experienced a loss when her son Mitchell, after struggling with a mental illness for eight years, died by suicide in 1986. Soon after, as a way of both healing and helping others, she co-founded Wellness Reproductions & Publishing with her daughter Kathy Khalsa. Ester began developing therapeutic products that help facilitators help their clients. She is the co-author of theSEALS series for teenagers as well as Meaningful Life Skills for older adults, and the eight-book Life Management Skills series for adults. Ester, a breast cancer survivor since 2003, has counseled other survivors in overcoming body-loss issues. Her involvements with Survivors of Suicide, the Coyote Task Force in Tucson, various support groups in Sun City Oro Valley and volunteering at two hospitals are among many ways she continues to feed her passion of helping mentally ill people, their facilitators and their families. John J. Liptak is the Associate Director of Career Services and adjunct instructor in the Counselor Education Department at Radford University. He received his EdD in Counselor Education from Virginia Tech. He has worked in a variety of settings including a federal prison, a mental health center, a job training program, and now in higher education. Dr. Liptak frequently conducts workshops on assessment-related topics. He has written seven books on career-related topics that have been featured in numerous newspapers including The Washington Post, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Associated Press. His work has also been featured on MSNBC, CNN Radio and on the PAX/ION television series, "Success Without a College Degree." At Radford University, he works with college students entering internships or preparing for graduation and entrance in the workplace. Through individual coaching sessions, workshops, and classroom presentations he helps students develop the emotional intelligence skills they need to be effective in the world-of-work. He is teaching a senior-level course that will teach emotional intelligence skills to graduating seniors. With Kathy Khalsa and Ester Leutenberg, John has written three comprehensive books for teachers and counselors to use with their students and clients: The Self-Esteem Program, The Social Skills Program, and The Stress Management Program: Inventories, Activities & Educational Handouts. With Whole Person Associates, he and Ester continue to co-write books to add to their Mental Health & Life Skills Workbook series, and their Teen Mental Health Series as well as the new Coping Series, the Mind-Body Wellness Series, and the Family Issues Series. John resides in Radford, Virginia with his wife Kathy, and their Shih Tzu named "MacKenzie." |