Social Detective Academy: How to Become a Social Detective and Solve Social Mysteries Like a Pro
A few years ago, Johnny Multony, transformed from not fitting into a socially savvy kid, started the first-ever social detective agency. He was hired by other students in his school for help with common interpersonal dilemmas, such as cliques, dealing with disappointments, bullying, personal space, friends, body language, and much more.

Now, an opportunity of a lifetime, Johnny Multony has opened the Social Detective Academy! And YOU have been invited!

During your time at the Social Detective Academy, you will learn some of the most important things a social detective needs to be aware of. Learning these things will help you become a skilled social detective capable of helping others solve their social mysteries, just like Johnny!

But even more than that, you will learn the tools for becoming a social ninja, capable of navigating some of the most complicated social mysteries that you might face in your own life.

The truth is that some of the best social detective training involves learning how to be more socially skilled yourself. If you can effectively navigate your own social world, you will be much more capable of helping others become successful in their own social journeys. This is how Johnny’s first students learned to become excellent social detectives themselves–by practicing solving their own mysteries.

Throughout this book, you will have the opportunity to test your skills by trying to solve social mysteries alongside some of Johnny’s first students. These mysteries came directly from these students’ personal lives and show how they used their social detective skills to make their own social lives better. As you read through the chapters, see if you can use the tools you are learning to identify social mysteries you might have in your own life.

Some of the ideas in this book are going to be pretty easy and straightforward. You will probably understand them with very little effort. But some of the things we will be talking about might seem a little more complicated at first. If there is something that you don’t quite get right away, don’t worry about it. That is to be expected. Just keep going and don’t let it hold you back. You can always come back to it later on.

If you don’t fully understand something, you will still be able to understand later things in the book. In fact, some of the things in this book will probably make even more sense as you read later parts of the book, so if something is not completely clear, keep reading on and come back. Johnny actually encourages his social detective students to come back and reread things even if they understood them the first time because rereading about important ideas can help you to have a deeper understanding.

Each chapter will also have a social detective concept summary at the end. These summaries are there to help you organize the most important concepts in each chapter. They serve as a good reference guide to come back to if you need to refresh your memory later on.

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Social Detective Academy: How to Become a Social Detective and Solve Social Mysteries Like a Pro
A few years ago, Johnny Multony, transformed from not fitting into a socially savvy kid, started the first-ever social detective agency. He was hired by other students in his school for help with common interpersonal dilemmas, such as cliques, dealing with disappointments, bullying, personal space, friends, body language, and much more.

Now, an opportunity of a lifetime, Johnny Multony has opened the Social Detective Academy! And YOU have been invited!

During your time at the Social Detective Academy, you will learn some of the most important things a social detective needs to be aware of. Learning these things will help you become a skilled social detective capable of helping others solve their social mysteries, just like Johnny!

But even more than that, you will learn the tools for becoming a social ninja, capable of navigating some of the most complicated social mysteries that you might face in your own life.

The truth is that some of the best social detective training involves learning how to be more socially skilled yourself. If you can effectively navigate your own social world, you will be much more capable of helping others become successful in their own social journeys. This is how Johnny’s first students learned to become excellent social detectives themselves–by practicing solving their own mysteries.

Throughout this book, you will have the opportunity to test your skills by trying to solve social mysteries alongside some of Johnny’s first students. These mysteries came directly from these students’ personal lives and show how they used their social detective skills to make their own social lives better. As you read through the chapters, see if you can use the tools you are learning to identify social mysteries you might have in your own life.

Some of the ideas in this book are going to be pretty easy and straightforward. You will probably understand them with very little effort. But some of the things we will be talking about might seem a little more complicated at first. If there is something that you don’t quite get right away, don’t worry about it. That is to be expected. Just keep going and don’t let it hold you back. You can always come back to it later on.

If you don’t fully understand something, you will still be able to understand later things in the book. In fact, some of the things in this book will probably make even more sense as you read later parts of the book, so if something is not completely clear, keep reading on and come back. Johnny actually encourages his social detective students to come back and reread things even if they understood them the first time because rereading about important ideas can help you to have a deeper understanding.

Each chapter will also have a social detective concept summary at the end. These summaries are there to help you organize the most important concepts in each chapter. They serve as a good reference guide to come back to if you need to refresh your memory later on.

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Overview

A few years ago, Johnny Multony, transformed from not fitting into a socially savvy kid, started the first-ever social detective agency. He was hired by other students in his school for help with common interpersonal dilemmas, such as cliques, dealing with disappointments, bullying, personal space, friends, body language, and much more.

Now, an opportunity of a lifetime, Johnny Multony has opened the Social Detective Academy! And YOU have been invited!

During your time at the Social Detective Academy, you will learn some of the most important things a social detective needs to be aware of. Learning these things will help you become a skilled social detective capable of helping others solve their social mysteries, just like Johnny!

But even more than that, you will learn the tools for becoming a social ninja, capable of navigating some of the most complicated social mysteries that you might face in your own life.

The truth is that some of the best social detective training involves learning how to be more socially skilled yourself. If you can effectively navigate your own social world, you will be much more capable of helping others become successful in their own social journeys. This is how Johnny’s first students learned to become excellent social detectives themselves–by practicing solving their own mysteries.

Throughout this book, you will have the opportunity to test your skills by trying to solve social mysteries alongside some of Johnny’s first students. These mysteries came directly from these students’ personal lives and show how they used their social detective skills to make their own social lives better. As you read through the chapters, see if you can use the tools you are learning to identify social mysteries you might have in your own life.

Some of the ideas in this book are going to be pretty easy and straightforward. You will probably understand them with very little effort. But some of the things we will be talking about might seem a little more complicated at first. If there is something that you don’t quite get right away, don’t worry about it. That is to be expected. Just keep going and don’t let it hold you back. You can always come back to it later on.

If you don’t fully understand something, you will still be able to understand later things in the book. In fact, some of the things in this book will probably make even more sense as you read later parts of the book, so if something is not completely clear, keep reading on and come back. Johnny actually encourages his social detective students to come back and reread things even if they understood them the first time because rereading about important ideas can help you to have a deeper understanding.

Each chapter will also have a social detective concept summary at the end. These summaries are there to help you organize the most important concepts in each chapter. They serve as a good reference guide to come back to if you need to refresh your memory later on.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781957984520
Publisher: Future Horizons, Inc.
Publication date: 04/09/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 276
File size: 58 MB
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Age Range: 9 - 14 Years

About the Author

JEFFREY E. JESSUM, Ph.D., has spent the past 15 years working with children and families in hospital , mental health facilities , schools, private practice and the community, with a primary emphasis on social skills training and education. As a major element of his work with children, he has created a library of stories. Many of these stories communicate important social and emotional le sons in a way that i entertaining to children and their parents, while other stories were created purely for enjoyment. The inspiration for Diary of a Social Detective came from his years of running social skills groups for kids of all ages, and all the stories within the book are based on very real and common struggles that children face.

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A few years ago, Johnny Multony, transformed from not fitting into a socially savvy kid, started the first-ever social detective agency. He was hired by other students in his school for help with common interpersonal dilemmas, such as cliques, dealing with disappointments, bullying, personal space, friends, body language, and much more.

Now, an opportunity of a lifetime, Johnny Multony has opened the Social Detective Academy! And YOU have been invited!

During your time at the Social Detective Academy, you will learn some of the most important things a social detective needs to be aware of. Learning these things will help you become a skilled social detective capable of helping others solve their social mysteries, just like Johnny!

But even more than that, you will learn the tools for becoming a social ninja, capable of navigating some of the most complicated social mysteries that you might face in your own life.

The truth is that some of the best social detective training involves learning how to be more socially skilled yourself. If you can effectively navigate your own social world, you will be much more capable of helping others become successful in their own social journeys. This is how Johnny’s first students learned to become excellent social detectives themselves–by practicing solving their own mysteries.

Throughout this book, you will have the opportunity to test your skills by trying to solve social mysteries alongside some of Johnny’s first students. These mysteries came directly from these students’ personal lives and show how they used their social detective skills to make their own social lives better. As you read through the chapters, see if you can use the tools you are learning to identify social mysteries you might have in your own life.

Some of the ideas in this book are going to be pretty easy and straightforward. You will probably understand them with very little effort. But some of the things we will be talking about might seem a little more complicated at first. If there is something that you don’t quite get right away, don’t worry about it. That is to be expected. Just keep going and don’t let it hold you back. You can always come back to it later on.

If you don’t fully understand something, you will still be able to understand later things in the book. In fact, some of the things in this book will probably make even more sense as you read later parts of the book, so if something is not completely clear, keep reading on and come back. Johnny actually encourages his social detective students to come back and reread things even if they understood them the first time because rereading about important ideas can help you to have a deeper understanding.

Each chapter will also have a social detective concept summary at the end. These summaries are there to help you organize the most important concepts in each chapter. They serve as a good reference guide to come back to if you need to refresh your memory later on.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Calling to Be a Social Detective

The Birth of the First-Ever Social Detective Academy

Welcome to Social Detective Academy!

PART ONE

The Fundamentals of Social Detection or What Every Social Detective Needs to Know

Chapter 1: The Basics of Solving Mysteries

Six Keys for Gathering Facts

Five Steps for Making Sense of the Facts

Creating 

The Usual Suspects

Chapter 2: Attention 

So, What is Attention? 

The Importance of Attention

Attention

How We Show Attention 

Things That Get in the Way of Attention

Tools for Paying Attention 

PART TWO

Verbal Communication: Listening and Responding

Chapter 3: Verbal Listening 

How to Figure Out What the Main Topic Is

How to Identify Mood or Feeling in What Someone is Saying

Chapter 4: Verbal Responding 

Social Remedies for Resisting the Itch to Talk Off-Topic

Befriending our Bodies

Fear of Forgetting 

Things That Might Get in the Way of Responding to Mood 

Techniques for Effectively Responding to Mood 

Underresponding

Remedies for Under-responding 

Over-responding

Remedies for Over-responding

Chapter 5: Verbal Dancing

Remedies for Fast Talking and Crowding

What makes silences awkward? 

What might make an awkward silence a problem?

Things That Can Make it Hard to Have a Nice Verbal Dance 

Remedies for Managing the Awkward Silence 

How to Make Silences Less Awkward

Sharing Responsibility For the Conversation

Remembering That Silence is Not Forever and Comfort Grows Over Time

Sharing Activities 

Do Things in Groups

How to Decrease Negative Effects of Awkward Silences

Take Advantage of the Power of the Pause 

Ask Open Questions 

Share Some of Your Own Experience 

Stay Aware of Our Responses to Awkward Silences

Starting a Good Verbal Dance and Keeping It Going 

Keeping a Good Mental Attitude and Staying Relaxed

Detective Work

Being Creative

Taking Positive Action

How to Tell if Topic Lingering is an Issue

How to Shift Topics Smoothly

Example of Bridging from Minecraft to Other Topics 

PART THREE

NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION: LISTENING AND RESPONDING

Chapter 6: Nonverbal Communication 

Nonverbal Listening 

Nonverbal Listening Suspects

Chapter 7: Listening to the Face

Face Mapping

Putting the Pieces Together

Facial Combos

Crazy Combos

The Importance of Clear Facial Communication 

A Note on RGF

Combining Clues to Test Our Hunches

Chapter 8: Listening to the Body 

Body Posture

Sensing Relationships in the Body 

Sensing Relationships in the Mind

PART FIVE

CONTEXT AND PERSPECTIVE TAKING

Chapter 11: Context 

Context and Making Sense of the Facts 

How Context Helps Us Organize and Remember Things

Context Helps Us Understand Others Better 

Types of Context

Personal Information

Example: Personality Traits of Humor vs. Sensitivity to Criticism 

Example 1: Personal History of Criticism and Rejection

Example 2: Personal History – Culture 

Mental Styles and Abilities 

Example: Mental Styles and Abilities

Interpersonal Information 

Types of Interpersonal Information

Example: Interpersonal Information and First Impressions

Situational Information

Example: The Mood of the Situation

Gathering and Making Sense of Contextual Information

Contextual Story Worksheet 

"Tell me about your day" – the importance of contextual current events 

Context and Social Media

Chapter 12: Perspective Taking

What is a Perspective?

Perspective Taking 

Perspective Maps 

Benefits of Perspective Taking

How to Take Perspectives

Tools for Perspective Taking 

Buddy Scan 

Fully Taking Perspective

Perspective Assuming and Perspective Denying

Checking Things Out

I Get It – The Art of Perspective Responding 

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