Before You Pay
What social skills training costs, what the programmes actually are, what your school has to provide free, and how to tell whether you need any of it yet.
6 pages in this section.
No page in this section links to a book, including ours. These pages exist to stop you being sold to, and that would be a strange rule to write and then break.
Prices are published here because almost nobody else publishes them. Every figure names the provider it came from and the date it was read.
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What Social Skills Training Actually Costs
Published prices for teen social skills groups, coaching and the PEERS programme, with the source for every figure, plus the free route almost nobody mentions.
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What the PEERS Programme Actually Is
A neutral explainer on the teen social skills programme most providers sell: what it is, who the research was done on, why nobody agrees how many weeks it runs, and the two cheaper routes to the same curriculum.
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Do They Actually Need Therapy Yet?
Not yet is a real answer. The published threshold, an honest ladder with watchful waiting at the bottom, and the one question to ask a therapist that changes the odds.
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Is Residential Treatment Ever the Answer for This?
What the clinical guidelines do and do not contain about residential placement, what level-of-care decisions are actually made on, and who has standing to advise you. No recommendation in either direction.
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What the School Has to Provide, Free
The two federal regulations behind the free route, quoted whole and with nothing cut out, what they actually say about counseling and social skills support, and the limits of what any of it promises.
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Checklist: Questions to Ask Before You Pay
Nine questions to put to any provider before you spend money, what a good answer to each one sounds like, and the two that almost nobody thinks to ask.