“…We entered the psychological skills training movement in the early 1970s. As our research program progressed and we achieved successful skill enhancement (Goldstein, 1981;Goldstein, Sherman, Gershaw, Sprafkin, & Glick, 1978), we shifted our focus from teaching a broad array of interpersonal and daily living skills to adult, psychiatric inpatients to a more explicit concern with skill training for aggressive youngsters. Many writers have demonstrated that delinquent and other aggressive youngsters display widespread deficiencies in interpersonal, planning, aggression management, and other psychological skills (Conger, Miller, & Walsmith, 1965;Freedman, Rosenthal, Donahoe, Schbundy, & McFall, 1978;Mussen, Conger, Kagan, & Gerwitz, 1979;Patterson, Reid, Jones, & Conger, 1975;Spence, 1981).…”