Stop Think Do is a bestselling social skills program. The program consists of 20 lessons at four different levels: 4–6 years, 6–8 years, 8–10 years and 10–12 years of age. Each lesson includes learning outcomes, required resources, structured teaching of the core concept or skill, age appropriate activities to practice the skills, and worksheets to reinforce each learning outcome.

Stop Think Do aims to:

• Prevent adverse consequences resulting from poor social skills and peer friendships
• Improve the social skills and peer friendships of children who already have problems
• Develop cooperative classrooms and schools
• Develop emotional intelligence, self-esteem and confidence through increased awareness, skills training and goal achievement
• Empower students by teaching self-control, decision making and positive actions
• Develop group skills including active participation, cooperation, organisation and leadership
• Improve relationships through the use of a common language, problem-solving process, shared goals and regular feedback

Three colourful posters that trace the Stop Think Do problem solving sequence using a traffic light motif are also available.

Components available include:

Stop Think Do Social Skills Training Early Years of Schooling 4-8 (Lindy Peterson with Allyson Adderly, 2002)

Features include:

• Why train social skills and emotional intelligence in children?
• How to apply the program in classrooms, with special needs children, as a whole school, and with parental involvement
• Social skills lessons for children aged 4-6
• Social skills lessons for children aged 6-8
• 3 colourful traffic light training posters
• Pre- and post-program assessments

Stop Think Do Social Skills Training for Primary Years, (Lindy Peterson with Allyson Adderly, 2002)

Features include:

• Why train social skills and emotional intelligence in children?

• How to apply the program in classrooms with special needs children, for peer mediators, as a whole school, and with parental involvement
• Social skills lessons for children aged 8-10
• Social skills lessons for children aged 10-12
• 3 colourful traffic light training posters
• Pre and post program assessments.

Supplement for Middle Years of Schooling Ages 12-15 (Lindy Peterson, 2004)

This manual extends the Stop Think Do program to target adolescents in their middle years of schooling, transitioning from primary to secondary school. It is a supplement to the more comprehensive primary school manuals.

The program includes 12 lessons covering a wide range of social skills.

Lessons are divided into the following 6 units:

• Self awareness and identity
• Good and bad communication
• Thinking and problem solving
• Morals and values
• Decision making and friendship skills
• Pressures and responsibilities

Stop and Think Learning (Lindy Peterson, 1995)

This guide offers teachers a step-by-step method to motivate children to be actively involved in their own learning. The emphasis, supported by case studies drawn from Lindy Petersen’s own clinical experiences over 20 years, is on the process of teaching and motivating all students to reach their full potential.

Stop and Think Learning provides a framework that any learning, remediation or extension program may be fitted into, regardless of its content or purpose. Photocopiable masters for individual or group planning are also included.

Stop and Think Friendship DVD (Lindy Peterson and Mark LeMessurier)

A social skills program for children aged 6-12 about making and keeping friends.

In response to the serious concerns about the pervasive effects of poor peer friendships and also the high incidence of social problems in our community, programs specifically designed for training social skills in children have proliferated over the past decades. The most effective are cognitive-behavioural programs where children are taught how to solve social problems positively and how to act in pro-social ways. Several studies have shown that children who receive social skills training in their early years cope better with stressors in adolescence with higher self-esteem, academic success and social status, and lower incidences of delinquency, drug abuse, school drop-out, suicide and other emotional-psychological disturbance.

Stop Thip Do is an Australian cognitive-behavioural social skills training program originally devised as a treatment for children and adolescents with social-behavioural difficulties. The program may be run in clinics or schools, with individuals or groups. The approach is both didactic and experiential, teaching children specific social skills and a process of relating to others so that they can make and keep friends. In liaison with educationalists, Stop Think Do has been adapted for teaching directly in the classroom as a social skills curriculum with a preventive focus, aiming to improve the social skills of all children from a young age to prevent emotional-social-behavioural problems from developing.

Stop and Think Friendship workbook included.

Stop Think Do School Pack (Complete Kit)

Includes Manual 4-8, Manual 8-12, 2 sets of posters and Stop and Think Friendship DVD. This kit excludes the Supplement for Middle Years of Schools Ages 12-15 and Stop and Think Learning.