Select a particular social skill that is often appropriate to teach and rehearse with certain types of clients. Develop a four-session skills training protocol for that client group that attends equally to the cognitive and behavioral elements of the particular social skill.
What will be an ideal response?
Students should base their programs on the list of social skills provided earlier, and follow the process below in developing their interventions:
Regarding cognitive aspects of social skills development, the social worker first assesses the assumptions that seem to lie beneath the client’s attitudes about the skill issue, or how he or she interprets the social world. The social worker then educates the client about the following topics:
• The nature of relationships What they are, why they are important, how they develop, and the prevailing social norms that influence them
• How to make decisions in social situations Different strategies for deciding when and how to approach other people, depending on the purpose of the contact
• How to assess social situations How to evaluate possible explanations for the behavior of others in social situations when those behaviors are unclear; becoming more sensitive to the thoughts and motivations of other people
Regarding behavioral interventions in social skills training, the social worker helps the client to rehearse and refine skills in the areas of:
• Self-presentation
• Social initiatives
• Conversational skills
• Maintaining relationships over time
• Conflict resolution
These skills are taught and rehearsed through a process that includes:
• Determine what skill the client wants or needs
• Discuss the rationale for learning the skill with the client
• Describe the skill
• Outline all of the “steps” involved in using the skill
• Model the skill in its entirety for the client through role-play, the use of videotapes, or other media resources
• Role-play each step in the skill
• Evaluate the role-plays, repeating them until the client demonstrates competence
• Combine the steps of the role-plays into a full rehearsal of the social skill
• Ask the client to apply the skill in one or more specific real-life formats
• Evaluate and refine the skill by discussing the client’s efforts to practice it in subsequent meetings
• Refine the skills until the client achieves mastery of it
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