Social skills training with adolescent male offenders—II. Short-term, long-term and generalized effects

Spence, Susan H.; Marzillier, John

doi:10.1016/0005-7967(81)90056-5

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“…The assessment of the social functioning was by teacher questionnaire, and although there is no formal psychometric data available for the Spence questionnaires that would permit comparison to other scales, they have proved sensitive to change in functions in previous studies [19,21]. Assessing change following intervention was the purpose for which these scales were designed, and not a formal measure of absolute social skills (Spence 2014 -private communication), although this is the first time they have been used with children with ASD.…”

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The Impact of a Computer-Based Activity Program on the Social Functioning of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Dickinson

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2016

Games for Health Journal

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Problems with social functioning are a major area of difficulty for children with autism. Such problems have the potential to exert a negative influence on several aspects of the children's functioning, including their ability to access education. Objective. This study looked to examine if a computer-based activity programme could improve the social functioning of these children. Materials and Methods. Using a pooled subject design, 100 children with autistic spectrum disorder were randomly allocated, controlling where possible for age and gender, to either an intervention or a control group. The children in the intervention group were encouraged to use the Nintendo Wii and the software package "Mario and Sonics at the Olympics" in addition to their routine school physical education classes over a nine month period. The control group attended only the routine physical education classes. Results. After one year, analysis of the changes in the scores of teacher-completed measures of social functioning showed that boys in the intervention group had made statistically significant improvement in their functioning when compared to controls. The number of girls in the study was too small for any change to reach statistical significance. Conclusion. This type of intervention appears to have potential as a mechanism to produce improvement in the social functioning, at least of boys, as part of a physical education programme.

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“…Its reliability has been found to be 0.65, and the standard error of measurement associated with the total scale scores was 5.64 [20]. The scales were designed to identify areas for improvement in response to social skills training programmes (Spence 2014 -private communication), and have been shown to be of value in this regard [20,21].…”

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The Impact of a Computer-Based Activity Program on the Social Functioning of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Dickinson

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2016

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“…The different modes of therapeutic approaches found to be effective among institutionalized Children in Conflict with Law are interpersonal skills training [51][52][53], family treatment [54,55], behavioural programmes [56][57][58] and community residential programmes [59][60][61].…”

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Formulating an Integrated Intervention Programme: Reshaping the Brain-Behaviour Functioning of Children in Conflict with Law in India

Das¹

2016

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Juvenile delinquency is a serious social concern, characterized by disturbance in executive functions, cognitive emotion regulation and aggression. The term 'children in conflict with the law' refers to any individual below the age of 16 years, who has come in contact with the justice system as a result of committing an illegal activity or being suspected of committing an illegal activity. It can be easily understood that the Children in Conflict with Law require rehabilitative measures while they are spending their formative years of life in Juvenile Justice Homes. Rehabilitation has particularly been the focus of corrections programs for Children in Conflict with Law. Research in different parts of the world has focused on various facets of psychotherapeutic intervention like Behaviour Therapy, Contingency management programme, Family Therapy, Music therapy etc. that have been effectively applied in separate formats on these children. It is often found that while implementing psychotherapeutic intervention programmes in practice, these have often not reached up to the extent of their wholistic betterment. This is also true in the Indian context where published research in this particular domain is sparse. To reach the aim of reducing or preventing future criminal behaviour, it is much necessary to strengthen and integrate the appropriate execution of existing psychotherapeutic intervention programmes for delinquency prevention. This paper aims to delineate the conceptual formulation of an Integrated Intervention Programme which is aimed at providing rehabilitation for Children in Conflict with Law. It includes Psychoeducation, Music Therapy, Psychodrama and finally Cognitive Behaviour Therapy as well as Cognitive Retraining to enhance positivity, aid in self expression and better emotional regulation and promote adaptive executive functioning. Starting with the Group Therapy mode, the Programme will gradually move towards an individual format to deal specifically with the individualistic needs of each child.

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“…Validity of this role-play instrument was supported, as most component skills were related to overall skill ratings of substance refusal conducted by an independent rater. The latter finding is particularly noteworthy, as Spence (1981b) alluded to the necessity of identifying behavioral components in the assessment of social skills for delinquent males. One of the primary purposes of this study was to determine whether substanceabusing conduct-disordered male adolescents were deficient in their use of substance refusal skills relative to their nonabusing counterparts.…”

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Substance refusal skills in a population of adolescents diagnosed with conduct disorder and substance abuse

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Hersen

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Social skills training with adolescent male offenders—II. Short-term, long-term and generalized effects

Cited by 100 publications

References 22 publications

The Impact of a Computer-Based Activity Program on the Social Functioning of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

The Impact of a Computer-Based Activity Program on the Social Functioning of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Formulating an Integrated Intervention Programme: Reshaping the Brain-Behaviour Functioning of Children in Conflict with Law in India

Substance refusal skills in a population of adolescents diagnosed with conduct disorder and substance abuse

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