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Friendship: Skills for Having a Friend, Being a Friend
Friendship Skills for Having a Friend Being a Friend Author:Jim Conway By his own measure, the author, Jim Conway, was a failure. Short, skinny, physically unattractive and painfully shy, he thought of himself as a failure in everything. - even school. It was only years later, after he had became a Christian, that he could look back in amazement at the repeated intervention of God and the repeated attempts of peopl... more »e to reach out to him. In Friendship, Jim Conway says to his readers, This book comes out of my struggles with friendships, and is my attempt to say to you -- I want to be your friend. I want you to know there is hope. If you are going through some tough stuff, I want you to know I understand I've been there.
Written to be read and acted upon as an individual or group effort. After each chapter, there are suggested group activities designed to foster closeness and mutual understand.« less
This is a good book for autistic children. Walking them through social encounters of what it means to be empathic, how to get ready for friendships, qualities that draw friends to you and building skills for long lasting friendships.