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New Developments in Social Skills Training

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2014

Kim T. Mueser,
Charles J. Wallace and
Robert P. Liberman
Kim T. Mueser*
Affiliation:
Dartmouth Medical School
Charles J. Wallace
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, and the UCLA-Camarillo Neuropsychiatric Research Center
Robert P. Liberman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, and the UCLA-Camarillo Neuropsychiatric Research Center
*
New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, 105 Pleasant St, Main Building, Concord NH 03301, USA
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Abstract

Social skills training (SST) has emerged as one of the most widely practiced methods of psychiatric rehabilitation. The purposes of this article are to review the research about its effects, propose guidelines for its practice, and discuss several related methodological and clinical issues such as promoting generalisation, predicting the degree of benefit, and integrating training with other rehabilitation services. The research suggests that SST, when conducted using appropriate curricula and teaching techniques, helps individuals with schizophrenia acquire relevant interpersonal and instrumental skills. Generalisation of these skills can be promoted by simultaneously linking training to the opportunities, prompts, and consequences needed to perform the skills in the extra-training environments. Long-term SST appears to be necessary in order to produce significant improvements in community functioning. The article concludes with suggestions for future clinical research.

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Behaviour Change , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 1995, pp. 31 - 40
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1995

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