Date of Award:
5-1990
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
D. Kim Openshaw
Committee
Gerald Adams
Committee
Carolyn Barcus
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to assess the efficacy of a 9-week social skills training (SST) program for improving the social competence of adolescent sex offenders. The study was conducted at an outpatient treatment center, Intermountain Sexual Abuse Treatment Center, in Salt Lake City, Utah. A pretest-posttest control group design was utilized and comparisons were made on a variety of self- and parent-report measures to examine treatment effects. The results indicate that the experimental group was able to acquire the specific SST behaviors to a far greater degree than expected by chance. However, evidence of increased social competence outside the training context is somewhat more equivocal. Implications for treatment programs and further research needs are discussed.
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Recommended Citation
Graves, Roger B., "The Effects of an Adolescent Social Skills Training Program on Adolescent Sex Offenders" (1990). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2321.
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