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The Effects of Social Skills Training and Peer Involvement on the Social Adjustment of Preadolescents.
Karen L. Bierman,Wyndol Furman +1 more
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This article examined the effects of social skills training and peer involvement on the peer acceptance of disliked preadolescents and found that conversational skills training promoted skill acquisition and increased skillful social interaction.Abstract:
This study examined the effects of social skills training and peer involvement on the peer acceptance of disliked preadolescents. 56 fifth- and sixth-grade children were identified as unaccepted by their peers and deficient in conversational skills. These children were then randomly assigned to 1 of 4 treatment conditions: (1) conversational skills training (individual coaching), (2) peer involvement under superordinate goals (group experience), (3) conversational skills training combined with peer involvement (group experience with coaching), and (4) a no-treatment control. Differential treatment effects were observed at both a posttreatment and follow-up assessment. As predicted, conversational skills training promoted skill acquisition and increased skillful social interaction. Peer involvement increased peer acceptance and children's self-perceptions of their social efficacy. The results were interpreted in terms of a developmentally based multidimensional model of social competence.read more
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Clinical issues in social-skills training with adolescents
TL;DR: The authors reviewed relevant empirical literature for clinical issues in social-skills training with adolescents, including generalization and maintenance, social validation, compliance and resistance, confidentiality, practicality, and termination.
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Children's development within peer groups: using composite social maps to identify peer networks and to study their influences.
TL;DR: The author discusses the conceptual and methodological bases of a network assessment technique and presents specific examples to show how group experiences affect children's behavior.
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Practitioner Review: Problems in Children's Peer Relations: What Can the Clinician Do?
Neena M. Malik,Wyndol Furman +1 more
TL;DR: A number of treatment options are suggested, including social skills training, social cognitive interventions, and co-operative group interventions, for children with peer relationship problems.
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Using Key Instructional Elements to Systematically Promote Social Skill Generalization for Students with Challenging Behavior.
Stephen W. Smith,Donna L. Gilles +1 more
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that school success may be minimal for students who have difficulties building social relationships and ultimately fail at developing social competence, and as a result, social skills training is often provable.
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Social skill training with children: Issues in research and practice.
TL;DR: In this article, several key issues facing researchers and practitioners are reviewed and discussed, including the purpose of social skill training, selection of candidates, content or curriculum of skill-based interventions, and methods used to teach social skills.
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The Perceived Competence Scale for Children.
TL;DR: The Perceived Competence Scale for Children as mentioned in this paper is a self-report instrument for assessing a child's sense of competence across different domains, instead of viewing perceived competence as a unitary construct.
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Advances in Clinical Child Psychology
Benjamin B. Lahey,Alan E. Kazdin +1 more
TL;DR: The state-of-the-art in child psychotherapy with children and adolescents is described in this paper, where the authors present a review of the state of the art in the field.
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Intergroup Conflict And Cooperation: The Robbers Cave Experiment
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the integration of field work and laboratory in Small Group Research and the role of staff, subject selection, and experimental site selection in the design and implementation of the study.