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Fitting Social Skills Intervention to the Target Group

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Children’s Peer Relations: Issues in Assessment and Intervention

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Much of the current research interest in the application of social skills training to samples of children is tied to the assumption that this is a potentially powerful approach to preventive intervention with children who are at future risk for various forms of disorder. Many of the contributors to this volume, including the present one, share this hope. Obviously those who share such a vision believe that social maladjustment, particularly with child peers, is a significant predictor of future disorder. They further presume that failure to resolve these social adjustment problems adequately is causally related to subsequent manifestations of disorder. Although evidence related to the first of these two assumptions will be considered in the next few pages, there is little existing evidence related to the second assumption.

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    Barry H. Schneider  & Jane E. Ledingham  & 

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Kenneth H. Rubin

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Coie, J.D. (1985). Fitting Social Skills Intervention to the Target Group. In: Schneider, B.H., Rubin, K.H., Ledingham, J.E. (eds) Children’s Peer Relations: Issues in Assessment and Intervention. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6325-5_9

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