This guide to the clinical application of social skills training with psychiatric patients provides practitioners with the ingredients necessary to implement skills training with confidence and quality. Social skills techniques are behaviorally based, providing new, socially reinforcing skills to replace old, maladaptive behaviors. Emphasis is upon the utility of the skills approach with severely mentally ill persons. Case examples and verbatim transcripts of social skills training sessions illuminate the text. Exercises to aid the reader in applying the training methods are provided in each chapter. Assessment forms and posters are illustrated in the text.

Contents:

• Why Teach Social Skills to Psychiatric Patients?
  Assessing Social Skills
  Training Social Skills
  Training Friendship Skills
  
• Overcoming Resistance to Training

272 pages

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Books	Cat. No.	Price	Order
Social Skills Training for Psychiatric Patients	BK10	$45.00