the purpose of this research was to determine the effect of emotional self-efficacy training schedule on social adjustment and social anxiety of male students in the middle schools. so,  a sample of 34  students in second and third grades from the zone 2 of rey city were selected by multi-stage random sampling. groups had been matched with a view to academic achievement, parental education and ...

One of the hallmarks of schizophrenia is impairment in social functioning. A large body of research supports the effectiveness of social skills training in integrating the schizophrenic patients into the community. So, we aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a constructed social skills training program on improving social skills among schizophrenic patients. The study was based on a contro...

BACKGROUND Physicians require specific communication skills, because the face-to-face contact with their patients is an important source of information. Although physicians who perform work disability assessments attend some communication-related training courses during their professional education, no specialised and evidence-based communication skills training course is available for them. Th...

The purpose of this chapter is to evaluate the capability ofsocial skills training approaches for preventing adolescent sub-stance abuse and to suggest directions for future research in thisarea. Social skills and training are defined from the perspectiveof social learning theory. Training approaches are then reviewedfor their effect on drug use and drug use-related behavior...

BACKGROUND With the reformed curriculum "4C", the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne has started to systematically plan practical skills training, for which Clerkship Maturity is the first step. The key guidelines along which the curriculum was development were developed by experts. This approach has now been validated. MATERIALS AND METHODS Both students and teachers were asked to ...

Non-verbal communication incorporating visual, audio, and contextual information is important to make sense of and navigate the social world. Individuals who have trouble with social situations often have difficulty recognizing these sorts of non-verbal social signals. In this article, we propose a training tool NOCOA+ (Non-verbal COmmuniation for Autism plus) that uses utterances in visual and...