Stepping Forward Counseling Center’s IOP program is set in different environments that call for a variety of “natural” social skills. 

These environments include Doc’s Jocs Sports, School Matters, Manners Matter, Art, Yoga and  Social Skills/Group Therapy. The client has 7 objectives, 4 pertaining to the group and 3 pertaining to the individual. The clients are assessed on their performance on these 7 objectives throughout the three or four environments the individual engages in each day. The objectives can be but are not limited to impulse control, cooperation, adapting to losing, concentration, sharing and the art of conversation. Since the environments are closely similar to the client’s natural environments, it is more likely that the behaviors taught at SFCC will generalize to the individual’s natural setting.

SFCC uses a behavioral program to build incompatible appropriate behaviors which compete and replace inappropriate behaviors.
 
Our Parent Training Sessions teach parents how to reinforce these skills in the home to further increase generalization of the skills taught at SFCC