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Modification of Skill Deficits in Psychiatric Patients

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Research and Practice in Social Skills Training

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The relationship between social competence and psychiatric disorder is well documented in both the psychological and psychiatric literatures (cf. Bellack & Hersen, 1978; Hersen & Bellack, 1976b, 1977; Paul, 1969; Sylph, Ross, & Kedward, 1978). For close to two decades, Zigler and his colleagues (Levine & Zigler, 1973; Phillips & Zigler, 1961, 1964; Zigler & Levine, 1973; Zigler & Phillips, 1960, 1961, 1962) have completed a series of retrospective studies, essentially showing that level of premorbid social competence in a hospitalized psychiatric patient is the best predictor of his posthospital adjustment. This relationship seems to hold irrespective of the patient’s diagnostic label (i.e., schizophrenia, alcoholism, depression) and regardless of the treatment regimen carried out during the course of hospitalization. Indeed, only recently has the relationship between social skill deficits and particular diagnostic entities been carefully evaluated. Among the disorders so considered are: schizophrenia (Bellack & Hersen, 1978; Bellack, Hersen, & Turner, 1976; Hersen & Bellack, 1976a), depression (Libet & Lewinsohn, 1973; Wells, Hersen, Bellack, & Himmelhoch, 1977), alcoholism (Miller & Eisler, 1977; O’Leary, & Donovan, 1976; Van Hasselt, Hersen, & Milliones, 1978), drug addiction (Caliner & Ross, 1976; Van Hasselt et al., 1978), hysterical neurosis (Blanchard & Hersen, 1976), and sexual deviation (Barlow, Abel, Blanchard, Bristow, & Young, 1977). Undoubtedly, as further research evidence is adduced, other disorders will be added to this growing list.

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Hersen, M. (1979). Modification of Skill Deficits in Psychiatric Patients. In: Bellack, A.S., Hersen, M. (eds) Research and Practice in Social Skills Training. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2192-5_6

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