Super Skills for Life (SSL) is an intervention programme which helps young people cope with emotional difficulties such as anxiety and depression. It is based on the principles of cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) and behavioural activation and uses video-feedback and cognitive preparation as part of the treatment.

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SSL provides young people with skills to:
•    Enhance self-confidence, build emotional resilience, and improve social skills and competence.
•    Cope with stressful situations, including life changes such as the transition from primary to secondary school.
•    SSL (adolescent version) also covers techniques to improve health through healthy eating, physical exercise, and

     sleep hygiene.
 
Super Skills for Life has 8 sessions which are typically delivered once or twice a week to a group of 6–8 young people, or to an individual child/adolescent. The sessions are structured with role play, homework, group and individual activities, video-analysis and feedback. 

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It can be delivered by teachers and other non-mental health professionals after a short training.

By using the “train-the-trainer approach”, SSL training has built the capacity and shaped the practice of 24,800 practitioners in 17 countries. Delivery of SSL has produced positive mental health outcomes in approximately 600,000 young people.

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