Social skills training with young adolescents

It is hypothesized that young adolescents with social skills difficulties can be helped by group social skills training if a school setting is used and school staff are involved in selection and treatment. An intervention using group social skills training was run in a secondary school as part of the curriculum. The results of 9 treated subjects on three measures were compared with those of an equal number of subjects who had no treatment. Scores were computed before treatment, after treatment, and at follow- up. On two of the measures significant improvement was found in the case of the treated subjects, while there was no improvement in the case of the untreated subjects.Received B.A. from Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1966 and M.A. in 1983. Completed postgraduate professional training as a psychologist at the Tavistock Centre in 1971. He has previously worked as an educational psychologist and currently works as principal clinical psychologist at Peterborough District Hospital, Peterborough, PE3 6DA, United Kingdom. He has published papers in a number of clinical areas. Currently his main research interest is in social skills.He was previously associated with the Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London. His research interest is in person-centered therapy and in testing assumptions derived from the theories of Carl Rogers. He has published extensively in this area and is currently developing research into the process of psychotherapy.     

Social Skills Training with Court-Adjudicated Youths

The theoretical and programmatic issues in the development of a social skills training program for court-adjudicated youths are described. The first issue discussed is the relationship between a youth's social competence and the likelihood of his or her engaging in inappropriate or illegal activity. This relationship is proposed as a series of questions about the underlying assumptions of this treatment approach. Research relevant to each of these questions available during our program development is reviewed. Next, the relevant issues in the development of a social skills training program are organized along the dimensions of content, methodology, and practicality. The resulting social skills training program is described with major research findings. Finally, future research directions in social skills training are proposed.     

Social Skills Training with Adolescents:

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Social Skills Training and Assessment with Children:

Research suggesting a relationship between early peer relations and later life adjustment has prompted a growing number of researchers to develop intervention stratgies for isolated, rejected, and friendless children. Although most of these strategies have been on a "skill deficit" hypothesis and have taken the form of teaching children specific social skills, there is considerable disagreement in the field as to what skills should be learned and how skills should be trained. This problem has been exacerbated by the fact that, although a variety of skills training methods exist in the literature, most have been developed from implicit rather than explicit theories of social competence and skill learning. This paper represents an attempt to organize many of the concepts and principles presently used to develop social skills training methods for children within a cognitive-social learning perspective. The following pages focus on the identification of skill deficits that may lead to later social difficulties and on the derivation of skills training methods that might be used to remediate each type of deficit. The implications of the proposed training methods for program assessment and implementation are also considered.     

Re-examining Social Work Roles and Tasks with Foster Care

In order to promote developmental outcomes with children and young people and to nurture their positive health and well-being in foster care, social workers and case managers are required to direct professional attention toward both the child or young person and her/his daily living environment(s)—at home, at school, and in the local neighborhoods in which they live. When viewed from an ecological perspective, foster care environments are represented conceptually as a nested cluster of settings ranging from immediate life spaces and networks of relationships in a foster home, at school, and in a neighborhood, to organizational contexts holding a statutory duty of care for children and young people assigned looked after status, along with national policies and statutes which frame foster-care environments. This article explores how social-work roles and tasks with children and young people in foster care change as Social Workers transition from case management roles within state, provincial, or local authority departments to become Supervising Social Workers, or Team Managers of Foster Carers, or Directors of foster care services.     

从社会网到社会资本

社会网分析和社会资本研究是当前学术界的一个研究热点,各个学科都对此表现出了浓厚的兴趣。但由于研究者各自的视角不同,对社会网络与社会资本的定义也存在着差异,使得该领域的研究缺乏学术对话的平台。运用历史的比较方法,通过考察社会网络和社会资本的起源与发展脉络,可以厘清二者的真正内涵、特征与本质,促进社会网络与社会资本的理论、方法与中国的现实社会相结合。     

Motivations for Social Media Use: Associations with Social Media Engagement and Body Satisfaction and Well-Being among Adolescents

Journal of Youth and Adolescence - Adolescents are spending considerable time on social media, yet it is unclear whether motivations for social media use drive different forms of social media...     

Social Withdrawal and Social Surrogacy in Emerging Adulthood

Journal of Youth and Adolescence - Shyness has been well established as a hindrance to social adjustment and may be problematic for emerging adults attending university, given the high social...     

论中国特色工会社会工作的建设

党的十六届六中全会提出要“建设庞大的社会工作者队伍”。坚持走中国特色社会主义工会发展道路，要发挥社会工作者的重要作用，就必须要加强中国特色的工会社会工作的建设。这有利于转变各级工会职能、创新工会运作机制、解决劳资问题、维护社会安定、建设和谐劳动文化、营造和谐组织以及创新党的群众工作方式、加强工会自身建设。加强中国特色工会社会工作的建设，需要不断丰富理念、创新方法、拓展内容、发展模式以及充实角色。     

论中国特色工会社会工作的建设

党的十六届六中全会提出要"建设庞大的社会工作者队伍"。坚持走中国特色社会主义工会发展道路,要发挥社会工作者的重要作用,就必须要加强中国特色的工会社会工作的建设。这有利于转变各级工会职能、创新工会运作机制、解决劳资问题、维护社会安定、建设和谐劳动文化、营造和谐组织以及创新党的群众工作方式、加强工会自身建设。加强中国特色工会社会工作的建设,需要不断丰富理念、创新方法、拓展内容、发展模式以及充实角色。     

Institutionalization of Children with Disabilities in Croatia: Social Workers' Perspectives

Abstract

This study aims to advance understanding of social workers’ perceptions of the circumstances necessitating and preventing the placement of children with disabilities (CwDs) in institutions. This retrospective study involved thematic analyses of one focus group (n?=?7) and semi-structured individual interviews (n?=?12). Participants included social work professionals with experience providing welfare services for CwDs and their families. In effort to prevent separation of CwDs from their families, results suggest a need for continued monitoring of deinstitutionalization of CwDs alongside increased availability, accessibility, and quality of childcare, alternative child welfare and family support services.     

论社会对话

社会对话是我国政治学领域亟待研究的课题。社会对话的产生,有赖于市场经济和民主政治的充分发展,也有赖于社会心理的成熟。在社会对话中,政府如何定位,直接关系到社会对话能否顺利进行及其效果如何。不同的国家有不同的社会对话模式。成功的社会对话,既是改善治理的关键,又是经济和社会改革的推动力量。     

新型工资劳动者与当代中国的社会发展 --兼论新型工资劳动者研究的方法论问题

新型工资劳动者是已经走进工业化、城市化和现代化的非农从业者,是新时期我国现代化和社会发展的核心内容之一,带有明显的现代性特征.作为后发国家,前现代、现代和后现代共时性存在的发展背景,构成了新型工资劳动者生存和发展的基本境遇.目前新型工资劳动者的数量规模已居我国社会阶层结构的第二位,其权利理念以及与此相适应的阶层化意识已经觉醒,社会各界包括政府有关部门对其存在和权利状况的"交叠共识"基本达成,组织化的条件日趋成熟,真正需要的是工会组织在社会、政治结构中的博弈智慧和实际操作层面的实践智慧.     

Longitudinal Associations of Electronic Aggression and Victimization with Social Standing During Adolescence

Prior empirical work has documented that the dynamics of social standing can play a critical role in the perpetration and receipt of aggression during adolescence. Recently, investigators have emphasized the emergence of new, electronic modalities for aggressive acts. Our longitudinal project therefore considered electronic forms of aggression and victimization as correlates of social standing. We recruited 415 ninth grade students (53 % female) from a high school in Southern California. In the spring of two consecutive school years, participants completed peer nominations assessing their social standing, aggression, and victimization. More popular youths were concurrently more electronically aggressive and victimized than their peers. Popularity also was associated with increases in electronic aggression over time. In turn, electronic aggression was related to increases in popularity for girls and decreases for boys. We additionally found concurrent, positive associations between social acceptance and electronic forms of aggression and victimization, although these effects held only at the first time point. Among adolescent males, social acceptance also was related to increases in electronic victimization over time. Overall, our results suggest that adolescents may rely on electronic aggression to establish and maintain a privileged position in their peer hierarchy. Our results additionally highlight that popular and accepted youths, who likely possess a large, digitally-connected social network, may be at increased risk for electronic victimization.     

Relational Aggression at School: Associations with School Safety and Social Climate

The present study examines how exposure to relational aggression at school is associated with adolescents’ perceptions of, and participation in, a hostile school environment. Participants were 1,335 African American and European American adolescents in grades 7 through 12 (52% female, 49% African American). Results indicate that exposure to relational aggression is associated with several components of adolescents’ perceptions of the school climate. Adolescents exposed to high levels of relational aggression perceived their school to be less safe, and were less pleased with the general social atmosphere at school. Moreover, for males, but not females, exposure to relational aggression was associated with carrying a weapon to school. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed in terms of working toward safer school environments for adolescents.

论城市贫困群体社会心理冲突与社会支持

亏损、破产和效益较差企业的职工已成为当今城市贫困的主体,贫富差距极易使其心态失衡,潜伏着不安定因素,对社会稳定带来威胁。只有建立起以政府为主导的社会保护与支持体系,才能维护社会的稳定与持续发展。     

农民工的社会支持、社会参与和身份认同

农民工问题历来是党和政府高度重视的问题,他们的情感状况更是不容忽视;特别是他们身份认同状况,关系到他们融入城市社会的程度。基于2013年流动人口调查数据,立足于社会支持、社会参与的视角,探究对农民工身份认同的影响,可以得出:社会支持中的实际支持而非社交支持,对农民工的社会参与有显著影响;社交支持、实际支持和社会参与,均显著影响农民工的身份认同;社会参与是实际支持影响认同感的一个可能的中介变量。     

Social divisions in caring

This article is concerned with the perspectives on caring developed by academic feminist researchers in Britain over the last decade. It notes how these perspectives defined caring in terms of the unpaid domestic and personal services provided through the social relations of marriage and kinship to those who found it hard to meet their own care needs. The article draws on Black feminist and disabled feminist perspectives, together with recent autocritical work by academic feminist researchers, to unpack this concept of care. It focuses on what the concept obscures about the social divisions that mediate women's experiences of care. It examines what is eclipsed and who is excluded from feminist perspectives on caring which are grounded in the experience of giving care on an unpaid basis within kinship networks based on marriage.     

现代科技的社会风险与社会控制

在以科学技术为基础的现代社会,人类在享用科技成果带来的巨大福利的同时,也不可避免地要面临由科技发展附带的社会风险的挑战。产生这些社会风险的根源主要是包括科技本身,道德观念,人的认识等方面在内的不确定因素。降低风险减少损失只能针对风险的根源,建立以技术,道德,法律为手段的社会控制体系。     

Social Support and Low-Income,Urban Mothers: Longitudinal Associations with Adolescent Delinquency

The current study examined the role of engaged parenting in explaining longitudinal associations between maternal perceptions of social network support and whether youth engage in delinquent behaviors during the transition into adolescence. The sample included 432 low-income, African American and Latino youth (49% female) and their mothers participating in “Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three City Study”. Results from longitudinal SEM analyses demonstrated that social network support was associated positively with mothers’ engaged parenting as youth transitioned into early adolescence. Engaged parenting, which functioned as a mediating variable, was associated with less youth delinquency during transitions into middle adolescence. Taken together, social network supports appeared to facilitate mothers’ abilities to remain engaged with their children and to deter youth from becoming involved in delinquent behaviors.