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Article: A conceptual framework for work-related social skills in psychiatric rehabilitation.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Rehabilitation
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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Social skills and social skills training have attracted considerable attention in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation in the past two decades. There are numerous studies (Bellack, Morrison, Wixted, and Mueser, 1990; Bryant, Trower, Yardley, Urbieta, and Letemendia, 1976; Christoff & Kelley, 1985; Curran, Miller III, Zwick, Monti, and Stout, 1980; Feinberg, Rifkin, Schaffer, and Walker, 1986; Goldstein & Manderscheid, 1981) which show that psychiatric patients, especially those with schizophrenia, have significant deficits in social skills and social performance. Many rehabilitation counselors, health care professionals, and social workers have proposed conceptual ...