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Social-Skills Training with Children

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The complex social skills necessary for confident, responsive, and mutually beneficial interaction with other people are certainly among the most important skills a child must learn. A person’s social facility has profound implications for nearly every facet of life—both in childhood and in adulthood. A lack of social skills may lead directly to problems in interpersonal relationships or may interfere indirectly with optimal functioning in school, occupational, and recreational activities. Yet, as frequently noted, the training of even the most basic social skills has been almost completely neglected in American schools (e.g., Winnett & Winkler, 1972; Lazarus, 1973). Researchers and clinicians have only recently begun to investigate methods of fostering specific social skills in children.

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