Conceptual and Definitional issues in the Assessment of Children's Social Skills: Implications for Classifications and Training

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1977 • 36,868 citations

Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.

1977 • 31,678 citations

Social Learning Theory.

1978 • 25,283 citations

Cognitive-Behavior Modification

1977 • 3,146 citations

SOCIAL VALIDITY: THE CASE FOR SUBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT or HOW APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS IS FINDING ITS HEART¹

1978 • 2,884 citations

Training impulsive children to talk to themselves: A means of developing self-control.

1971 • 1,352 citations

Assessing the Clinical or Applied Importance of Behavior Change through Social Validation

1977 • 1,080 citations

Long-term follow-up of early detected vulnerable children.

1973 • 814 citations

A reliable sociometric measure for preschool children.

1979 • 569 citations

Teacher Praise: A Functional Analysis

1981 • 549 citations

Behavioral Assessment

1981 • 549 citations

Egocentrism and antisocial behavior: The assessment and training of social perspective-taking skills.

1973 • 510 citations

Social Interaction, Social Competence, and Friendship in Children

1975 • 505 citations

Social adjustment and personality development in children

1972 • 503 citations

Teacher Praise: A Functional Analysis

1981 • 483 citations

Coaching Children in Social Skills for Friendship Making

1977 • 465 citations

Concept of social skill with special reference to the behavior of depressed persons.

1973 • 409 citations

Editorial statement

1982 • 372 citations

Self-control in children: Development of a rating scale.

1979 • 366 citations

Effects of Social Reinforcement on Isolate Behavior of a Nursery School Child1

1964 • 343 citations

Self-control in children: Development of a rating scale.

1979 • 341 citations

Behavioral Assessment

1982 • 317 citations

Children at Risk: The Search for the Antecedents of Schizophrenia. Part I. Conceptual Models and Research Methods

1974 • 314 citations

Misguided Mainstreaming: The Case for Social Skills Training with Handicapped Children

1982 • 303 citations

Assessment of Social Skills

1982 • 300 citations

Psychosocial Treatment of Chronic Mental Patients: Milieu Versus Social-Learning Programs

1977 • 298 citations

Social Skills Training with Handicapped Children: A Review

1981 • 296 citations

Research and Practice in Social Skills Training

1979 • 289 citations

An Assessment of the Relationship among Measures of Children's Social Competence and Children's Academic Achievement

1980 • 286 citations

PEER REINFORCEMENT AND SOCIOMETRIC STATUS

1967 • 283 citations

MODIFICATION OF SOCIAL WITHDRAWAL THROUGH SYMBOLIC MODELING¹

1969 • 279 citations

APPLICATIONS OF SELF‐CONTROL PROCEDURES BY CHILDREN: A REVIEW

1979 • 258 citations

Effectiveness of a Social Learning Method for Enhancing Children's Social Interaction and Peer Acceptance

1981 • 255 citations

“Think Aloud”: A program for developing self-control in young aggressive boys

1977 • 249 citations

Assessment and Classification of Children's Social Skills: A Review of Methods and Issues.

1984 • 241 citations

EFFECTS OF PEER SOCIAL INITIATIONS ON THE BEHAVIOR OF WITHDRAWN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

1977 • 240 citations

SOCIAL‐SKILLS TRAINING FOR UNASSERTIVE CHILDREN: A MULTIPLE‐BASELINE ANALYSIS¹

1977 • 237 citations

Relative efficacy of modeling, shaping, and the combined procedures for modification of social withdrawal.

1972 • 229 citations

Skills training as an approach to the treatment of heterosexual-social anxiety: A review.

1977 • 228 citations

THE EFFECTS OF A SELF‐INSTRUCTIONAL PACKAGE ON OVERACTIVE PRESCHOOL BOYS

1976 • 228 citations

Review of social–cognitive problem-solving interventions with children.

1980 • 221 citations

ISSUES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE IN CHILDREN

1979 • 215 citations

Peer preferences and social interaction among third-grade children in an integrated school district.

1977 • 212 citations

Social-Skills Training with Children

1977 • 212 citations

SOCIAL VALIDATION: THE EVOLUTION OF STANDARDS OF COMPETENCY FOR TARGET BEHAVIORS

1979 • 210 citations

Effectiveness of a Social Learning Method for Enhancing Children's Social Interaction and Peer Acceptance

1981 • 203 citations

SELF‐REGULATION IN THE MODIFICATION OF DISRUPTIVE CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR¹

1972 • 196 citations

A cognitive-social learning model of social-skill training.

1983 • 186 citations

Teachers, peers and tests as predictors of adjustment.

1957 • 184 citations

The Utilization of Classroom Peers as Behavior Change Agents

1981 • 176 citations

Social skills training with elementary school students: A behavioral group approach.

1980 • 170 citations

Role-play tests for assessing social skills: Are they valid? Are they useful?

1979 • 169 citations

Traditional versus behavioral personality assessment: A comparison of methodological and theoretical assumptions.

1972 • 165 citations

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SAYING AND DOING: TEACHING CHILDREN TO SHARE AND PRAISE¹

1976 • 156 citations

Role-play tests for assessing social skills: Are they valid?

1978 • 156 citations

Role-play tests for assessing social skills: Are they valid? Are they useful?

1979 • 151 citations

Social Isolation and Schizophrenia

1955 • 147 citations

Children's social competence and skill: Current research practices and future directions

1983 • 145 citations

Social skill assessment and training for children: An evaluative review

1979 • 142 citations

The Case for Teaching Social Skills in the Classroom: A Review

1978 • 139 citations

Teaching social skills to isolated children

1976 • 138 citations

Teaching social skills to children : innovative approaches

1986 • 132 citations

Social skills intervention in the treatment of isolated or withdrawn children.

1981 • 130 citations

Social Relationships and Verbal Interactions of Learning Disabled Children

1978 • 129 citations

Children's Friendships in School Settings.

1974 • 123 citations

An experimental analysis of peer social initiations on the behavior of withdrawn preschool children: Some training and generalization effects

1977 • 119 citations

Correlates of social status among mainstreamed mentally retarded children.

1978 • 112 citations

REWARD VERSUS COST TOKEN SYSTEMS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS ON STUDENTS AND TEACHER

1974 • 110 citations

A multimethod comparison of popular and unpopular children.

1982 • 109 citations

A Study in Prediction of Social Behavior of Preschool Children

1957 • 107 citations

Social validation in mental retardation

1981 • 106 citations

Behavioral Interviews in School Psychology: Issues in Psychometric Adequacy and Research

1984 • 101 citations

Sociometric Status of Preschool Children Related to Age, Sex, Nurturance-Giving, and Dependency

1964 • 97 citations

Peer evaluations of the competence of children vulnerable to psychopathology

1978 • 90 citations

Social outcomes of mainstreaming: Sociometric assessment and beyond

1981 • 88 citations

Issues in Social Interaction/Withdrawal Assessment

1977 • 87 citations

Social skills deficits

1985 • 86 citations

Validity of social skills measures for assessing social competence in low-status children: A multivariate investigation.

1981 • 85 citations

Peer acceptance: The correspondence between children's sociometric scores and teachers' ratings of peer interactions

1981 • 83 citations

Methodological issues in conceptualizing and treating childhood social isolation.

1982 • 66 citations

The effects of a modeling film on social isolation in preschool children: A methodological investigation

1977 • 66 citations

Peers as Behavior Change Agents for Withdrawn Classmates

1981 • 54 citations

A survey of “referral problems” in metropolitan child guidance centers

1957 • 52 citations

Aggression and Sociometric Status with Preschool Children

1973 • 50 citations

Social Reciprocity: A Review of Research and Educational Implications

1977 • 48 citations

The effect of verbal instructions on preschool children's aggressive behavior

1978 • 48 citations

Child- versus teacher-administered token programs in a psychiatric hospital school

1973 • 43 citations

Normative and Descriptive Analysis of Preschool Free Play Social Interaction Rates

1981 • 41 citations

The Kohn Social Competence Scale and Kohn Symptom Checklist for the preschool child: A follow-up report

1977 • 41 citations

The operant conditioning of verbally mediated self-control in the classroom

1970 • 34 citations

Assessment of children's social skills: A review of methods

1980 • 32 citations

Correlates of social status among mildly handicapped learners in self-contained special classes.

1980 • 30 citations

THE ROLE OF OFFER RATES IN CONTROLLING SHARING BY YOUNG CHILDREN¹

1976 • 30 citations

Increasing social play of severely retarded preschoolers with socio--dramatic activities.

1975 • 27 citations

The effects of dependent and interdependent group contingencies on socially appropriate responses in classes for emotionally handicapped children

1979 • 27 citations

Social interactions as predictors of children's likability and friendship patterns: A multiple regression analysis

1982 • 25 citations

Sociometric measurement: Methodological consideration of its use with mildly learning handicapped and nonhandicapped children.

1981 • 23 citations

Sociometric measurement: Methodological consideration of its use with mildly learning handicapped and nonhandicapped children.

1981 • 20 citations

Intergroup contact and social outcomes for mainstreamed EMR adolescents.

1981 • 16 citations

Sex Differences in Social Acceptance and Participation of Preschool Children

1957 • 13 citations

SEX DIFFERENCES IN SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE AND PARTICIPATION OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

1957 • 13 citations

Sociopsychological Factors in Psychopathology

1979 • 7 citations

Assessment for Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in the Schools

1982 • 6 citations

Perspectives of social status of learning handicapped and nonhandicapped students.

1981 • 6 citations