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The Use of Broad Conversational Targets in Social Skills Training to Promote Generalization of Gains to Real Life: A Case Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Ariel Stravynski
Ariel Stravynski
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Research Centre, Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital, University of Montreal, Canada
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Social dysfunction in a 45-year-old man was treated by a combination of exposure in vivo, social skills training and cognitive modification. Social skills training utilized broad conversational targets designed to help the patient to engage flexibly in social interactions and to be able to generate them in order to achieve his personal goals: to expand and increase his social contacts and meet the opposite sex.

Change was assessed on the basis of the patient's records of daily frequency of performance of targeted behaviours and associated anxiety within a single-case multiple baseline design. Change occurred only with the introduction of treatment and not before it, ruling out effects of time or mere contact.

The intervention resulted in an increased performance of social targets in real life, general social activity, and a related decrease in associated anxiety. The outcome was maintained for an available 1 year follow-up; systematic data collection was stopped after 6 months. A general improvement in the patient's personal, social and vocational life has also occurred.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1984 , pp. 61 - 67
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1984

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