Conversational skills training with a chronically hospitalized psychiatric inpatient

✍ Scribed by James P. Curran III; Bill Himadi; Donna Donahue-Bennett

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 632 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1072-0847
• DOI: 10.1002/bin.2360060204

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

While conversational skills training has been conducted with select psychiatric populations, it has rarely been used with severely debilitated inpatients. The purpose of this study was to use a multiple baseline design across conversational components to evaluate the effectiveness of a conversational skills training package to enhance the conversational repertoire of a severely impaired inpatient. Audiotaped conversations with a standard confederate were evaluated for the frequency of questions, self‐disclosures, and reinforcing/acknowledging comments. Generalization probe conversations to novel partners were also obtained. Training effects were noted for the 3 conversational units. Mixed results were obtained for generalization and follow‐up.