Traditional behavioral strategies used with adolescents with behavior disorders are reviewed and nontraditional approaches incorporating behavioral and cognitive psychology into social skills training and anger control training are described. (CL)

Four issues are discussed regarding measurement of social skills: (1) criteria to identify meaningful social skills, (2) content tapped by specific behavioral measures, (3) degree to which situational factors are included in measurement procedures and devices, and (4) applicability of traditional measures in the assessment of individual children.…

Implications for group composition are discussed in this article, in which the outcome literature on mixed-sex versus same-sex groups is reviewed. (Author)

Research is reviewed on the development of conversation skills in persons with hearing impairments. Difficulties in both dyadic and multiparty conversations are seen to include following topic shifts, missing content while searching for the speaker, and adapting messages based on listener's age and knowledge. Communication training approaches are…

The author replies to an article by F. Gresham in which Gresham argued that social skill training is an important prerequisite to satisfactory mainstreaming of handicapped children. The author questions Gresham's interpretation of social skill training studies in segregated settings, and emphasizes the need for more social skills training. (MC)

The social quotient from Vineland Social Maturity Scale was found to be moderately associated with IQ as measured by the Stanford Binet, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Slosson Intelligence Test, and the Leiter International Test for institutionalized mentally retarded persons. (CL)

Developed a multiple-choice version of the Problem Inventory for Adolescent Girls (MC-PIAG) and administered it to groups of delinquent (N=55) and nondelinquent (N=69) subjects. Results indicated that delinquent girls are much less competent in handling interpersonal problems than their nondelinquent peers; and supported the MC-PIAG as an…

Clients (N=92) from two mental health centers took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Social Interaction Self-Statement Test (SISST) during the intake process. Results indicated that the Social Introversion (SI) scale of the MMPI was the most efficient predictor of the SISST scales. (BH)

The article discusses the relationship among visual stigma, attitudes, and types of hearing aid fittings. Literature review and parental reports suggest ear-level hearing aids could minimize the perception of deviance without sacrificing acoustic benefits. (Author/CL)

Over 200 'normal' adolescents were administered self-report measures of personality (extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism), social skills, anomie, and delinquency in order to establish which of three theories best predicted delinquency. Eysenck's personality factors, particularly psychoticism, correlated most highly with delinquency. (RH)

Two experiments were conducted to increase the initiations and duration of social interactions between autistic and nonhandicapped youths. The youths generalized these social responses to other nonhandicapped peers in the same leisure setting. A second experiment trained a third autistic youth to emit similar social leisure skills. (Author/DB)

In an examination of whether subjects (moderately retarded adolescents and controls matched for MS and CA) would change their persuasive strategies in a social problem-solving situation in response to status of target persuadee and ineffectiveness of initial strategy generated, mentally retarded Ss changed strategies least, followed by MA-match…

Examined the relationship between interpersonal competence and marital adjustment in 179 married couples who completed questionnaires on both concepts. Findings supported the basic hypothesis that social anxiety is negatively related to marital adjustment, but social anxiety was primarily related to marital adjustment of self and not spouse. (JAC)