The nurse wants to enroll a patient with poor social skills in a training program for patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. Which description accurately describes social skills training?
a. Patients learn to improve their attention and concentration.
b. Group leaders provide support without challenging patients to change.
c. Complex interpersonal skills are taught by breaking them into simpler behaviors.
d. Patients learn social skills by practicing them in a supported employment setting.
ANS: C
In social skills training, complex interpersonal skills are taught by breaking them down into component behaviors that are covered in a stepwise fashion. Social skills training is not based in employment settings, although such skills can be addressed as part of supported employment services. The other distracters are less relevant to social skills training.
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