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Caron, Valérie; Barras, Alessio; van Nispen, Ruth M. A.; Ruffieux, Nicolas – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2023
Introduction: Social skills are acquired primarily through imitation using the visual system. As a result, people with visual impairments may experience difficulties in this area at any age, which can have a major effect on their social participation and on their quality of life. The objective of this study was to systematically review the effects…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Visual Impairments, Blindness
Waksman, Steven A.; Messmer, Cooki Landis – 1979
Providing a program for teaching assertive behavior and social skills to adolescents, this manual contains specific instructions, activities, worksheets, and homework assignments. (Assertive behavior is typically distinguished from both passive behavior and aggressive behavior and is believed to be a component of effective social and psychological…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Children, Interpersonal Competence
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Goldberg-Lillehoj, Catherine J.; Spoth, Richard; Trudeau, Linda – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2005
There is evidence of higher prevalence rates for alcohol use among rural adolescents relative to urban adolescents. Strategies aimed at preventing adolescent alcohol use typically include the development of social skills to resist peer pressure; among the social skills frequently targeted is assertiveness. Self-report data were collected from a…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Interaction, Peer Influence, Factor Analysis
Parr, Gerald D.; Lundquist, Gerald – 1973
The effects of modeling and rehearsal in counseling nonassertive adolescents were examined by randomly assigning subjects (Ss) to one of five treatment groups: modeling plus rehearsal (MR), modeling only (M), rehearsal only (R), placebo control (P), or delayed-treatment control (C). Significant (p < .05) main effects for treatment were found on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Counseling
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McKinlay, Thomas; And Others – Journal of Homosexuality, 1977
Social skills training was used to alter the socially inappropriate and ineffectual behavior of a 17-year old homosexual male. Six training and six generalization role-played interpersonal scenes were used. Results indicated significant improvement on trained social skills components with generalization to nontrained scenes as well. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Case Studies
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Pentz, Mary Ann – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1981
Examined contributions of modeling mode and training stimuli, and individual difference variables to assertion training outcome. Results indicated individual differences, particularly verbal reasoning and state anxiety, accounted for more variance. Suggests student differences in verbal aptitude and anxiety have implications for prescriptive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Counseling Effectiveness
Englander-Golden, Paula; And Others – 1984
Patterns of drug use among teenagers indicate they are highly influenced by peers. To examine the influence of Say It Straight, an alcohol/drug abuse prevention program aimed at teaching adolescents to deal with peer pressure, sixth, seventh and eighth graders (N=509) created and role played situations in which they wanted to say "no" to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Communication Skills, Drug Abuse
Field, Sharon; Hoffman, Alan – 1996
This student activity book includes worksheets that secondary students with and without disabilities can use to complete each activity in the "Steps to Self-Determination" curriculum. The program is meant to assist students in learning more about themselves and developing the skills they need to achieve their goals, getting support from family and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Conflict Resolution, Curriculum
Hoffman, Alan; Field, Sharon; Sawilowsky, Shlomo – 1996
The "Self-Determination Knowledge Scale" (SDKS) Form A and Form B are designed as a pretest and posttest for the "Steps to Self-Determination" curriculum. The program is meant to assist students, with and without disabilities, to learn more about themselves and develop skills to achieve their goals, get support from family and friends, and learn…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Conflict Resolution, Curriculum
Field, Sharon; Hoffman, Alan – 1996
This curriculum guide is focused on helping secondary students with and without disabilities gain knowledge and skills that will allow them to increase their ability to achieve their goals in environments with varying levels of receptivity to the concept of self-determination. The curriculum is designed to be delivered over the course of one…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Conflict Resolution, Curriculum Development
Bondanza, Julie – 1984
This workbook provides exercises, role-playing activities, and self-evaluation activities to help deaf adolescents become more aware of their level of assertiveness and the ways assertive behavior can assist in daily living situations. Assertiveness is different from aggressiveness and passiveness, and many people learn through their families and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Daily Living Skills, Deafness