Social Skills Across the Life Span —— Theory, Assessment, and Intervention

----- 跨寿命的社交技能：理论，评估和干预

ISBN: 9780128177525 出版年：2020 页码：370 Academic Press_RM

Social skills are critical to psychological adjustment across the lifespan. These skills are necessary for attaining a variety of important social, emotional, and interpersonal goals. Social skill definits and resulting negative social interactions are associated with a wide variety of adjustment problems and psychological disorders. Social Skills across the Life Span: Theory is a comprehensive social skills volume providing in-depth coverage of theory, assessment, and intervention. Divided into three major sections, the volume begins with the definition of social competence, developmental factors, and relations to adjustment. This is followed by coverage of general assessment and intervention issues across the lifespan. In the third section, program developers describe specific evidence-based interventions. Identifies how social skills influence social competence and well beingAddresses the full lifespanReviews methods to assess and intervene with children and adultsDetails evidence-based interventions for children and adults