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Using Parent Training Programmes to Teach Social Skills

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Handbook of Social Behavior and Skills in Children

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The aims of this chapter are to highlight the role that parents and primary caregivers play in children’s and adolescent’s acquisition of social skills and to demonstrate how parent training can be used to facilitate this. Drawing on the assertions of major developmental theories, different perspectives on the extent to which parents influence social development during childhood and adolescence are discussed. Following on from this, the emergence of parent training is explored and the premise and applications of parent training interventions are examined. Using the specific example of the Parents Plus Programmes—a suite of evidence-based solution-focused group-based parent training interventions—a number of developmentally appropriate positive parenting techniques and strategies for promoting the development of social skills are described.

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  1. Parents Plus, Philsborough, Dublin, Ireland

    John Sharry & Caoimhe Doyle

  2. University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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Sharry, J., Doyle, C. (2017). Using Parent Training Programmes to Teach Social Skills. In: Matson, J. (eds) Handbook of Social Behavior and Skills in Children . Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64592-6_12

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