Children’s Peer Relations: Issues in Assessment and Intervention

✍ Scribed by Kenneth A. Dodge (auth.), Barry H. Schneider, Kenneth H. Rubin, Jane E. Ledingham (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Willard W. Hartup This volume amounts to an anniversary collection: It was 50 years ago that Lois Jack (1934) published the findings from what most investigators consider to be the first intervention study in this area. The experiment (later replicated and extended by Marjorie Page, 1936, and Gertrude Chittenden, 1942) concerned ascendant behavior in preschool children, which was defined to include: (a) The pursuit of one's own purposes against interference and (b) directing the behavior of others. Individual differences in ascendance were assumed to have some stability across time and, hence, to be important in personality development. But ascendance variations were also viewed as a function of the immediate situation. Among the conditions assumed to determine ascendance were "the individual's status in the group as expressed in others' attitudes toward him, his conception of these attitudes, and his previously formed social habits" (Jack, 1934, p. 10). Dr. Jack's main interest was to show that nonascendant children, identified on the basis of observations in the laboratory with another child, were different from their more ascendant companions in one important respect: They lacked self­ confidence. And, having demonstrated that, Dr. Jack devised a procedure for teaching the knowledge and skill to nonascendant children that the play materials required. She guessed, correctly, that this training would bring about an increase in the ascendance scores of these children.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Facets of Social Interaction and the Assessment of Social Competence in Children....Pages 3-22
Social Competence and Skill: A Reassessment....Pages 23-39
What’s the Point? Issues in the Selection of Treatment Objectives....Pages 41-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Observational Assessment of Social Problem Solving....Pages 57-74
Children’s Peer Relations: Assessing Self-Perceptions....Pages 75-91
Assessment of Children’s Attributions for Social Experiences: Implications for Social Skills Training....Pages 93-110
The Influence of the Evaluator on Assessments of Children’s Social Skills....Pages 111-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Socially Withdrawn Children: An “At Risk” Population?....Pages 125-139
Fitting Social Skills Intervention to the Target Group....Pages 141-156
An Evolving Paradigm in Social Skill Training Research With Children....Pages 157-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Children’s Social Skills Training: A Meta-Analysis....Pages 175-192
Programmatic Research on Peers as Intervention Agents for Socially Isolate Classmates....Pages 193-205
Social Behavior Problems and Social Skills Training in Adolescence....Pages 207-224
Designing Effective Social Problem-Solving Programs for the Classroom....Pages 225-242
Documenting the Effects of Social Skill Training With Children: Process and Outcome Assessment....Pages 243-269
Back Matter....Pages 271-281

✦ Subjects

Psychotherapy; Child and School Psychology; Psychotherapy and Counseling