1st Edition

Radical Approaches to Social Skills Training

By Peter Trower Copyright 1984
368 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Contributors  Part 1: Theory and Research  Peter Trower Introduction and Review  1 James P. Curran, Albert D. Farrell and Aimee J. Grunberger Social Skills Training: A Critique and a Rapprochement  2 Peter Trower A Radical Critique and Reformulation: From Organism to Agent  3 Rom Harre Public-collective Psychological Processes and Social Skills  4 Richard Wessler Cognitive-social Psychological Theories and Social Skills  5 Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier A Control-theory Approach to Behaviour, and Some Implications for Social Skills Training  6 Mary M. Bandura, Ellen J. Langer and Benzion Chanowitz Interpersonal Effectiveness from a Mindlessness/Mindfulness Perspective  7 Malcolm Coulthard Conversation Analysis and Social Skills Training  Part 2: Practice  8 Michael G. Dow and W. Edward Craighead Cognition and Social Inadequacy: Relevance in Clinical Populations  9 Geoff Shepherd Assessment of Cognitions in Social Skills Training  10 W. Dryden Social Skills Assessment from A Rational-emotive Perspective  11 W. Dryden Social Skills Training from a Rational-emotive perspective.  Index

Biography

Peter Trower