Practitioner's Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Social Skills

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nangle, Douglas W. (Editor), Hansen, David J. (Editor), Erdley, Cynthia A. (Editor), Norton, Peter J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: ABCT Clinical Assessment Series,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Clinical psychology.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Child and School Psychology.

Social skills are at the core of mental health, so much so that deficits in this area are a criterion of clinical disorders, across both the developmental spectrum and the DSM. The Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically-Based Measures of Social Skills gives clinicians and researchers an authoritative r...

Table of Contents:

• I. Conceptual Foundations
• Defining Competence and Identifying Target Skills
• Social-Cognitive Models and Skills
• A Conceptual Basis in Social Learning Theory
• II. Applied Issues and Considerations
• Social Skills and Psychological Adjustment
• Assessing Children and Adolescents
• Assessing Adults
• Social Skills Interventions
• III. Special Topics and Populations
• Developmental Factors Related to the Assessment of Social Skills
• Diversity Considerations in Assessing Social Skills
• Anger and Aggression
• Social Anxiety and Withdrawal
• Assessment of Social Skills and Intellectual Disability
• Assessment of Social Skills and Social Competence in Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Assessment of Social Skills in Substance Use Disorders
• IV. Measure Reviews
• Child Measures
• Adolescent Measures
• Adult Measures
• Quick-View Guides
• Reprints of Selected Measures.