Social skills training
Subtitle: a practical handbook for assessment and treatment
By: edited by James P. Curran and Peter M. Monti.
Contributors: Curran, James P.; Monti, Peter M.
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Social skills -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses.; Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation -- Congresses.; Schizophrenics -- Rehabilitation -- Congresses.; Family psychotherapy -- Congresses.; Interpersonal relations -- Congresses.; Mental disorders -- Rehabilitation -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
"Based in part on papers delivered at a symposium on social competence and psychiatric disorders ... in May of 1980 in Providence, Rhode Island."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Social skills training with schizophrenics: Social skills training and the nature of schizophrenia / Robert Paul Liberman, Keith Neuchterlein and Charles J. Wallace; title: The social skills training project of the Mental Health Clinical Research Center for the Study of Schizophrenia / Charles J. Wallace; title: Maintenance and generalization issues in skills training ... / Murray Brown; title: Behavioral family therapy for schizophrenia / Ian R. H. Falloon, Jeffrey L. Boyd and Christine W. McGill; title: pt. 2. Social skills training with other populations: Skills training with unipolar depressed women / Michel Hersen, Alan S. Bellack and Jonathan M. Himmelhoch; title: Social skills training for psychiatric patients ... / Peter M. Monti, Donald P. Corriveau and James P. Curran; title: Communication skills training for married couples / Neil S. Jacobson; title: Assertion training for women / Marian L. MacDonald; title: The identification and treatment of children with peer-relationship difficulties / Doran C. French and Thomas F. Tyne; title: pt. 3. Social skills assessment: Components of heterosocial competence / Judith C. Conger and Anthony J. Conger; title: A procedure for the assessment of social skills; the simulated social interaction test / James P. Curran; title: An ethological perspective on social skill research / Robert Boice; title: pt. 4. A generative model of social skills : Toward a generative model of social skills, a critique and inthesis / Peter Trower.