Social skills are at the core of mental health so much so that deficits in this area are a
criterion of clinical disorders across both the developmental spectrum and the DSM. The
Practitioner's Guide to Empirically-Based Measures of Social Skills gives clinicians and
researchers an authoritative resource reflecting the ever growing interest in social skills
assessment and its clinical applications. This one-of-a-kind reference approaches social skills
from a social learning perspective combining conceptual background with practical
considerations and organized for easy access to material relevant to assessment of children
adolescents and adults. The contributors' expert guidance covers developmental and diversity
issues and includes suggestions for the full range of assessment methods so readers can be
confident of reliable valid testing leading to appropriate interventions. Key features of the
Guide: - An official publication of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies -
Describes empirically-based assessment across the lifespan. - Provides in-depth reviews of
nearly 100 measures their administration and scoring psychometric properties and references.
- Highlights specific clinical problems including substance abuse aggression schizophrenia
intellectual disabilities autism spectrum disorders and social anxiety. - Includes
at-a-glance summaries of all reviewed measures. - Offers full reproduction of more than a dozen
measures for children adolescents and adults e.g. the Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire
and the Teenage Inventory of Social Skills. As social skills assessment and training becomes
more crucial to current practice and research the Practitioner's Guide to Empirically-Based
Measures of Social Skills is a steady resource that clinicians researchers and graduate
students will want close at hand.
