Effectiveness of social skills training program for children with conduct problems: skill acquisition

ABSTRACT

The Social Skills Training Program [SST] for children with behavioral problems attending an inpatient/day care program were assessed in terms of skill acquisition. Eight boys, aged from 10-14, of whom three were attending the inpatient program and five the day care program, were exposed to 11 sessions of skills training twice weekly for 6 weeks. The sessions included topics related to classroom behavior, effective communication, problem solving and coping with stress. The subjects performance of these skills were measured by parents and teachers before and after the training period. Both parents and teachers reported a significant increase in the frequency of use of these skills. The generalization of these learned skills should be assessed in the future using a larger control sample