بررسي تاثير آموزش گروهي مهارتهاي اجتماعي در سازگاري فردي - اجتماعي نوجوانان بزهكار در شهرستان گنبدكاووس

Investigating the Effectiveness of Social Skills Training on Individual- Social Adjustment of Juvenile Delinquents in Gonbad Kavuos

This is an experimental study with pre test-post test control group design. The main concern of this research is to study how social skills training will affect individual- social adjustment of juvenile delinquents in the Gonbad Kavous prison. The main hypothesis of this study is: social skills training will increase the social adjustment in juvenile delinquents. To do so, we selected randomly 40 juveniles under 18 year from research population. Then, they were divided into two groups of experimental (20 persons) and control group (20 persons). Before intervention, the California Test of Personality (CTP) was administrated to both groups. Then experimental group received social skills training for 10 sessions. One week after the training, the post test was given to both groups. The analysis of results with the use of MANOVA and subsequent ANOVA showed that training in social skills has tremendous effects on juvenile delinquentʹs individual- social adjustment (P< 0/001). What has been achieved in this research proved the usefulness of training in social skills to increase the individual- social adjustment.