Social Skills Training For Psychiatric Patients

Author : Peter Trower
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317932512

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Radical Approaches to Social Skills Training (Psychology Revivals) by Peter Trower Pdf

Originally published in 1984, one of the few facts that emerged clearly in the beleaguered field of psychology and mental health at the time was the extent of poor social skills in psychiatric patients, the mentally handicapped and problem adolescents. As a result, during the 1970s, social skills training – espoused as a form of behaviour therapy – seemed to offer great promise, based on the notion that social skills, like any other skills, are learnt and can be taught if lacking. However, in evaluating social skills training, many investigators found that skills did not endure and generalise. This book attempts a major re-assessment of social skills training. It examines the underlying paradigms, which are shown to be fundamentally behaviourist. Such paradigms, it is argued, severely constrain the aims and method of current types of training. Thus the book develops what is termed an ‘agency’ approach, based on man as a social agent who actively constructs his own experiences and generates his own goal-directed behaviour on the basis of those constructs. This new model is developed in both theoretical and practical ways in the main body of the book and should, even today, be of great interest to all those involved with social skills training.

Author : Peter Trower,Bridget Bryant,Michael Argyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317937197

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Social Skills and Mental Health (Psychology Revivals) by Peter Trower,Bridget Bryant,Michael Argyle Pdf

In the 10 years or so prior to original publication in 1978 new theories and discoveries in the social sciences had given a scientific basis and new impetus to the development of social skills training as a form of therapy. This book explores the progress made with this idea and gives practical guidance for therapists based on several years’ experience with the technique. The book provides an account of the latest ideas at the time, about the analysis of social behaviour – non-verbal communication, social skill, rules, analysis of situations, etc. The different techniques for training and modifying social behaviour – some old, some very new – are described and compared, with detailed accounts. There is a careful critical review of follow-up studies of social skills training and other forms of social therapy on in-patients, out-patients and volunteer subjects. The second part of the book consists of a manual for assessing deficits and difficulties, and for training in ten main areas of social deficiency such as observation, listening, speaking, asserting and planning. A rating scale, questionnaire and user’s booklet of training exercises is included. The book should be of interest, not only to psychiatric professionals – psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists – but to many others, such as social and community workers, teachers, prison officers, and lay people who may be interested in forming self-help groups, either on their own or with professional guidance.

Author : Owen Hargie,Patrick John McCartan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015011651885

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Social Skills Training and Psychiatric Nursing by Owen Hargie,Patrick John McCartan Pdf

Author : Alan S. Bellack
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 157230846X

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Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia by Alan S. Bellack Pdf

This popular manual presents an empirically tested format and ready-made curricula for skills training groups in a range of settings. Part I takes therapists and counselors step by step through assessing clients' existing skills, teaching new skills, and managing common treatment challenges. Part II comprises over 60 ready-to-photocopy skill sheets. Each sheet--essentially a complete lesson plan--explains the rationale for the skill at hand, breaks it down into smaller steps, suggests role-play scenarios, and highlights special considerations. Of special value for practitioners, the 8 1/2" x 11" format makes it easy to reproduce and use the practical materials in the book.

Author : Robert Paul Liberman,William J. DeRisi,Kim Tornvall Mueser
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
ISBN : UVA:X001585506

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Social Skills Training for Psychiatric Patients by Robert Paul Liberman,William J. DeRisi,Kim Tornvall Mueser Pdf

This work is truly a guidebook-succinct, concrete, clearly written, and unambiguously specific. Based upon learning principles, the text naturally presents a linear and hierarchical exposition. The reader is never in doubt about what steps should follow what step. Each topic is broken down into readily assimilable components.

Author : Eric L. Granholm,John R. McQuaid,Jason L. Holden
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462524723

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Cognitive-Behavioral Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia by Eric L. Granholm,John R. McQuaid,Jason L. Holden Pdf

This unique manual presents cognitive-behavioral social skills training (CBSST), a step-by-step, empirically supported intervention that helps clients with schizophrenia achieve recovery goals related to living, learning, working, and socializing. CBSST interweaves three evidence-based practices--cognitive-behavioral therapy, social skills training, and problem-solving training--and can be delivered in individual or group contexts. Highly user friendly, the manual includes provider scripts, teaching tools, and engaging exercises and activities. Reproducible consumer workbooks for each module include skills summaries and worksheets. The large-size format facilitates photocopying; purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. Listed in SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices

Author : Alan S. Bellack,Kim T. Mueser,Susan Gingerich,Julie Agresta
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462513963

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Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia by Alan S. Bellack,Kim T. Mueser,Susan Gingerich,Julie Agresta Pdf

In a large-size format for easy photocopying, this manual presents an empirically tested format and ready-made curricula for skills training groups in a range of settings. Part I takes therapists and counselors step by step through assessing clients' existing skills, teaching new skills, and managing common treatment challenges. Part II comprises over 60 skill sheets. Each sheet--essentially a complete lesson plan--explains the rationale for the skill at hand, breaks it down into smaller steps, suggests role-play scenarios, and highlights special considerations. Appendices include reproducible client handouts and assessment tools; purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print these materials for repeated use.

Author : A.S. Bellack,M. Hersen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781489921925

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Research and Practice in Social Skills Training by A.S. Bellack,M. Hersen Pdf

It is perhaps trite to refer to human beings as social animals, but never theless it is true. A substantial portion of our lives is spent in interactions with other people. Moreover, the nature, quality, and quantity of those interactions have a tremendous impact on behavior, mood, and the adequacy of adjustment. Faulty interpersonal relationship patterns have reliably been associated with a wide variety of behavioral-psychological dysfunctions ranging from simple loneliness to schizophrenia. Most "traditional" analyses of interpersonal failures have viewed them as consequences or by-products of other difficulties, such as anx iety, depression, intrapsychic conflict, or thought disorder. Con sequently, remediational efforts have rarely been directed to interper sonal behavior per se. Rather, it has been expected that interpersonal relationships would improve when the source disorder was eliminated. While this model does account for some interpersonal dysfunctions (e.g., social anxiety can inhibit interpersonal behavior), it is not adequate to account for the vast majority of interpersonal difficulties. In fact, in many cases those difficulties either are independent of or underlie other dysfunctions (e.g., repeated social failure may produce depression or social anxiety).

Author : Peter Trower,Bridget Bryant,Michael Argyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Group relations training
ISBN : 0416849806

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Social Skills and Mental Health by Peter Trower,Bridget Bryant,Michael Argyle Pdf

In the 10 years or so prior to original publication in 1978 new theories and discoveries in the social sciences had given a scientific basis and new impetus to the development of social skills training as a form of therapy. This book explores the progress made with this idea and gives practical guidance for therapists based on several years experience with the technique. The book provides an account of the latest ideas at the time, about the analysis of social behaviour non-verbal communication, social skill, rules, analysis of situations, etc. The different techniques for training and modifying social behaviour some old, some very new are described and compared, with detailed accounts. There is a careful critical review of follow-up studies of social skills training and other forms of social therapy on in-patients, out-patients and volunteer subjects. The second part of the book consists of a manual for assessing deficits and difficulties, and for training in ten main areas of social deficiency such as observation, listening, speaking, asserting and planning. A rating scale, questionnaire and user s booklet of training exercises is included. The book should be of interest, not only to psychiatric professionals psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists but to many others, such as social and community workers, teachers, prison officers, and lay people who may be interested in forming self-help groups, either on their own or with professional guidance.

Author : Jennifer Resetar Volz,Tara Snyder,Michael Sterba
Publisher : Boys Town Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781934490105

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Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders by Jennifer Resetar Volz,Tara Snyder,Michael Sterba Pdf

Research and experience show that children and adolescents who struggle with emotional, behavioral and social problems do improve when they learn prosocial skills. Social skill instruction, therefore, can be a vital component in the treatment planning for a child diagnosed with a mental health disorder. Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders is a guide for therapists, counselors, psychologists, educators, and other practitioners trying to help these youth get better.

Author : Robert P. Sprafkin,N. Jane Gershaw,Arnold P. Goldstein
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X002512592

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Social Skills for Mental Health by Robert P. Sprafkin,N. Jane Gershaw,Arnold P. Goldstein Pdf

This practical guidebook is designed to help practitioners use proven techniques of structured learning to teach essential social skills that will help their clients function more effectively and independently at home, at work and in group settings. 27 specific topics are covered in detail and a transcript of an actual meeting is included.

Author : Martha L. Crowner
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781585628162

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Understanding and Treating Violent Psychiatric Patients by Martha L. Crowner Pdf

One of the major challenges for mental health professionals today is to successfully treat violent patients. The mental health professional is obligated to go beyond containment and control to provide understanding, complete assessment and accurate diagnosis, and humane and effective treatment. Understanding and Treating Violent Psychiatric Patients is a one-of-a-kind, comprehensive guide to assessment, management, understanding, and treatment of violent patients. The first section encompasses practical guides to treatment for both children and adults. It discusses commonly encountered problems in the treatment of violent adult inpatients and includes a brief guide to pharmacological treatments. A chapter is devoted to the treatment of abnormal aggression in children and adolescents. The second section delves into a more conceptual and broadly focused approach to understanding violent patients. It covers the relationship between dissociation and violence, as well as the relationship between psychiatric disorders and violence, and addresses impulse control and the treatment of impulsive patients. Heavily researched and clinically focused, this new title is a "must read" for psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, psychiatric nurses, or any mental health professional needing a better approach to understanding and treating violent patients.

Author : P. Trower,C. R. Hollin
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483293509

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Handbook of Social Skills Training by P. Trower,C. R. Hollin Pdf

In this volume the application of the social skills training (SST) model to specific clinical conditions is discussed. Its uses with schizophrenia, social anxiety, depression, mental handicap, and substance abuse are reviewed in depth and practical recommendations for the future are given. Advances in social psychology and linguistics have implications for the future development of SST and their contributions to the field are presented in the final section.

Author : Michael Argyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135041618

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Social Skills and Health (Psychology Revivals) by Michael Argyle Pdf

The efficiency of an organization and the well-being of those working within it are often dependent to a large extent on the social skills deployed by certain key personnel. The analysis of these skills and the training of people in their use had reached a stage of considerable sophistication. Originally published in 1981, this volume, edited by the foremost authority in the field, presents a wealth of ideas and information on how best to employ social skills training in health and welfare agencies that are still relevant today. The introduction describes the processes of social interaction in which social skills consist, introduces the social-skill model and shows how social competence is assessed and how the most effective social skills are discovered. Subsequent chapters deal with the social skills required of nurses, doctors, psychotherapists, social workers and those charged with child-rearing. There is a chapter which gives an account of the social skill problems of mental patients and the extent to which social inadequacy is responsible for their other problems. The final chapter discusses the main techniques of social skills training, and reviews their success in the light of follow-up studies. The book will be of historical value to all those concerned with the training and performance of personnel within the health related professions and to those with an academic interest in the psychology of human relations.

Author : Peter Trower,Bridget Bryant,Michael Argyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317937180

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Social Skills and Mental Health (Psychology Revivals) by Peter Trower,Bridget Bryant,Michael Argyle Pdf

In the 10 years or so prior to original publication in 1978 new theories and discoveries in the social sciences had given a scientific basis and new impetus to the development of social skills training as a form of therapy. This book explores the progress made with this idea and gives practical guidance for therapists based on several years’ experience with the technique. The book provides an account of the latest ideas at the time, about the analysis of social behaviour – non-verbal communication, social skill, rules, analysis of situations, etc. The different techniques for training and modifying social behaviour – some old, some very new – are described and compared, with detailed accounts. There is a careful critical review of follow-up studies of social skills training and other forms of social therapy on in-patients, out-patients and volunteer subjects. The second part of the book consists of a manual for assessing deficits and difficulties, and for training in ten main areas of social deficiency such as observation, listening, speaking, asserting and planning. A rating scale, questionnaire and user’s booklet of training exercises is included. The book should be of interest, not only to psychiatric professionals – psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists – but to many others, such as social and community workers, teachers, prison officers, and lay people who may be interested in forming self-help groups, either on their own or with professional guidance.