Social Skills Training for Severe Mental Disorders: A Therapist Manual
Centre for Clinical Interventions, WA Dept of Health (Australia) · 2003 · 237 pages · For clinicians and rehabilitation workers in SMI services
Read it at the official source
The manual's own front matter states it is distributed freely via the web to make it accessible to clinicians; CCI's site terms limit reuse to personal use, so the link goes to the official file.
If the publisher link moves: archived copy
A structured social skills training program for people living with schizophrenia and other severe psychiatric illness, covering conversation skills, assertiveness, conflict, and community participation with session-by-session therapist guidance and practice exercises.
Social functioning is where much long-term disability in serious mental illness actually lives, and free structured programs for it are scarce. This is the most complete openly distributed one.
Run it with these materials
The communication worksheets are in-session practice material for the manual's conversation and assertiveness modules.
This manual is a publication of Centre for Clinical Interventions, WA Dept of Health (Australia). Therapy Resource is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, its publisher. The summary above is our own; always follow the manual itself and your clinical judgment. If you are in crisis, contact 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or call 911.