Verona Program Helps Boys Develop Social Skills
LifeWorks helps teens overcome awkwardness, learn to interact with fellow teens.
A new 10-week-long Verona and Nutley-based program is helping local teenage boys behave better in school through weekly work sessions that concentrate on developing various social skills. The “Got Skills?” program is one of three teen programs organized by LifeWorks Counseling LLC, run by Licensed Clinical Social Workers Gina M. Unger and Ingrid E. Burke. The group sessions are attended by students who frequently get into trouble at school, get into fights or have challenges making friends. The sessions focus on understanding their feelings and interpreting the feelings of others. “We do a lot of role playing,” said LifeWorks Clinical Therapist Engin Bahce. “What do you do when someone starts to fight with you? We talked about first …
