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Patients and Social Skills Groups: Do they Lack Social Skills?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Annette Newton ,
Kathleen Kindness  and
Malcolm McFadyen
Annette Newton
Affiliation:
Grampian Health Board
Kathleen Kindness
Affiliation:
Grampian Health Board
Malcolm McFadyen
Affiliation:
Grampian Health Board
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Twenty-eight young adult out-patients with social interaction difficulties were assessed in an attempt to measure the three variables of social performance, social anxiety and self-esteem. A non-clinical comparison group comprising 32 subjects from a university subject panel were assessed on the same measures. There were significant differences in the patient and non-clinical group on anxiety and esteem, however, some patients scored well within the range of the non-clinical group and had adequate social performance. The patient group was characterized by high social anxiety which was more often related to low self-esteem than adequacy of social performance. We concluded that interaction difficulties are multiply determined and social performance, social anxiety and self-esteem are potentially independent variables. The implications of this for therapy were discussed.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1983 , pp. 116 - 126
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1983

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