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Assessing Social Skill in Role-Play Scenes: Is Personal Relevance Relevant?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Irwin S. Rosenfarb  and
Jim Mintz
Irwin S. Rosenfarb
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Jim Mintz
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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Social skills role-play assessment has been plagued by a lack of external validity. One solution recommended has been to select role-plays that are personally relevant for clients. The present study assessed the relationship between the personal relevance of role-plays and degree of socially skilled behavior. Results failed to support the hypothesis that clients would perform most poorly in those role-plays they viewed as most personally relevant. Results suggest that it may not be critical for therapists to develop role-plays that are personally relevant; the variables controlling socially skilled behavior do not seem unique to personally relevant situations. Instead, it may be more important for therapists to examine a broad range of social situations. If only personally relevant social skill situations are assessed, an incomplete picture of a client's range of social deficits may be obtained.

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Clinical Section
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 1992 , pp. 141 - 145
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1992

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