The effectiveness of the Safe Haven Program for the prevention of substance use, a family skills training program for African-American families, was evaluated through a nonequivalent comparison, repeated measures, quasi-experimental design which included pre- and posttest parent and child interviews, including the Moos Family Environment Scale and the Achenbock and Edelbrock Child Behavior Chec...

Paul F. Austin,* Stuart B. Bauer, Wendy Bower, Janet Chase, Israel Franco, Piet Hoebeke, Søren Rittig, Johan Vande Walle, Alexander von Gontard, Anne Wright, Stephen S. Yang, and Tryggve Nev eus From the Division of Urology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis Childrens Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri Department of Urology, Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachuset...

The treatment of social skills deficits remains one of the most challenging areas in meeting the needs of people with autism. Difficulties in understanding social stimuli, in initiating and responding to social bids, and in appreciating the affect that is intrinsic to social interactions can be baffling for people with autism. Researchers and practitioners of applied behavior analysis have trie...

The purpose of the present research was to study the effect of cooperative methodology on the social skill development of the primary students. The methodology was quasi-experimental, with pre-test, post-test, and control group. The population of the research was all 486 ‘Laleh’ primary school male students in the year of 2009-2010, among whom, 61 four-grade participants were finally chosen. Th...

the purpose of the present research was to study the effect of cooperative methodology on the social skill development of the primary students. the methodology was quasi-experimental, with pre-test, post-test, and control group. the population of the research was all 486 ‘laleh’ primary school male students in the year of 2009-2010, among whom, 61 four-grade participants were finally chosen. th...

A meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials of social skills training for schizophrenia was conducted. Outcome measures from 22 studies including 1,521 clients were categorized according to a proximal-distal continuum in relation to the presumed site of action of skills training interventions, with content mastery tests and performance-based measures of skills assumed to be most proximal, ...

This paper proposes an extension of Rosen’s (1986) theory of equalizing differences model by incorporating the role of different types of noncognitive skills in worker’s job preference function to explain the U.S. labor market sorting mechanism. This study also tests the implication of the proposed labor market sorting model by using the current population survey and Occupational Information Ne...

The importance of non-technical skills to surgical performance is gaining wide acceptance. This article discusses the core cognitive and social skills categories thought to underpin medical knowledge and surgical expertise, and describes the rise of non-technical skill models of assessment in surgery. Behavior rating systems such as NOTSS (Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons) have been developed ...

the purpose of this study was to explore the effects of group assertive training on social anxiety, social skills and academic performance of high school adolescents in isfahan city. the sample includes 60 students selected by random multistage sampling method. they were randomly divided into experiment and control groups. participants in this study completed a battery of scales including watso...

The current study investigated developmental trajectories of teacher-reported aggressive behavior and whether these trajectories are associated with social-cognitive development (i.e., aggressive problem-solving) across the first three elementary grades in a large sample from Switzerland (N = 1,146). Semiparametric group-based analyses were employed to identify distinct pathways of aggressive b...