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A situational approach to the assessment of children's social skills at school

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2016

Colin MacMullin
Colin MacMullin*
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School of Special Education and Disability Studies, Flinders University
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Children and their teachers were asked to nominate social situations that typically lead to children experiencing relationship difficulties with their peers. This information was then used to construct a diagnostic instrument in order to identify the particular social challenges that individual children face. The results of this study were compared to earlier investigations which sought only the views of adults, and not the ideas of the children themselves. The technique for developing inventories of problematic situations for children is explained and the uses of such procedures is also discussed.

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Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools , Volume 6 , Issue S1: ‘Teaching Prosocial Behaviour to Adolescents’ a Special Edition of the Australian Journal of" Guidance and Counselling , May 1996 , pp. 57 - 62
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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