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 resource reflecting the
ever growing interest in social skills assessment and its clinical
applications. This one-of-a-kind reference approaches social skills
from a social learning perspective, combining conceptual background
with practical considerations, and organized for easy access to
material relevant to assessment of children, adolescents, and
adults. The contributors' expert guidance covers developmental and
diversity issues, and includes suggestions for the full range of
assessment methods, so readers can be confident of reliable, valid
testing leading to appropriate interventions.
Key features of the Guide:
- An official publication of the Association for Behavioral and
Cognitive Therapies
- Describes empirically-based assessment across the
lifespan.
- Provides in-depth reviews of nearly 100 measures, their
administration and scoring, psychometric properties, and
references.
- Highlights specific clinical problems, including substance
abuse, aggression, schizophrenia, intellectual disabilities, autism
spectrum disorders, and social anxiety.
- Includes at-a-glance summaries of all reviewed measures.
- Offers full reproduction of more than a dozen measures for
children, adolescents, and adults, e.g. the Interpersonal
Competence Questionnaire and the Teenage Inventory of Social
Skills.
As social skills assessment and training becomes more crucial to
current practice and research, the Practitioner's Guide to
Empirically-Based Measures of Social Skills is a steady resource
that clinicians, researchers, and graduate students will want close
at hand.
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