Behavioral skills training to remediate deviant social behavior of an adolescent in residential treatment Original Research Article

This case conference paper describes a treatment plan for Mike, an intellectually limited 13-year-old boy with social-skill deficits and social behavior problems who resides in a family-style residential treatment program. Treatment would involve initial training with videotape vignettes for Mike to learn to identify appropriate and inappropriate social behaviors across a variety of typical social situations with peers. Following initial discrimination training, behavioral skills training procedures involving instructions, modeling, rehearsal, praise, and feedback would be implemented with peers in simulated social interactions. Training would include multiple exemplars and would continue until Mike had learned appropriate social behaviors for a wide range of social situations and had exhibited those behaviors in the residential and school settings. Behavioral contingencies would also be implemented by staff for Mikeʹs appropriate and inappropriate social behaviors in the residential and school settings to promote generalization.