Date of Award:

5-1988

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Human Development and Family Studies

Department name when degree awarded

Family and Human Development

Committee Chair(s)

D. Kim Openshaw (Committee Co-Chair), Gerald R. Adams (Committee Co-Chair)

Committee

D. Kim Openshaw

Committee

Gerald R. Adams

Committee

Gary Kiger

Abstract

The primary purpose of this thesis was to assess the effects of a short verses long-term social skills training program on (a) enhancing adolescent and parent social skills, while Cb) reducing conflict and distress and enhancing warmth and cohesion. A modified pretest - posttest control group design was employed wherein the control group for the first experiment became a portion of the experimental group for the second experiment. The sample consisted of ~3 parent-adolescent dyads who volunteered to participate. Of those, 25 met the minimum criteria for being included in the analysis, 18 dyads from the experimental group and 7 from the control group. Results demonstrated that while the parents did perceive an improvement in skills assessed by the PARI sub-scores, the adolescents did not. Nonetheless, the findings demonstrated that the long-term program of one skill learned every week for eight weeks was more effective than the concentrated one- week program of two skills learned per night far four nights.

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