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Social Skills Training and Negative Symptoms

Nicole Matousek

North Eastern Metropolitan Psychiatric Services

Jane Edwards

Albert Park Clinic

Henry J. Jackson

University of Melbourne

Raymond P. Rudd

Royal Park Hospital

Nancy E. Mcmurray

University of Melbourne

Schizophrenic patients with severe negative symptoms may have an impaired capacity to benefit from social skills training (SST), and their negative symptoms may show little change as a result of SST. The present study, employing a multiple-baseline design across-behaviors with three patients who had prominent negative schizophrenic symptoms, combined nonverbal skills training with the Stacking the Deck social skills game. Further, the study examined changes in both social skills (assessed using role-play and conversation tests) and negative symptoms. Depression, extrapyramidal side effects, and positive symptoms were also monitored. Modest improvements in social skills and negative symptoms were achieved. There was little evidence of a training effect. The unstable baselines may have contributed to this finding. It is important for further research to employ comprehensive patient-assessment procedures.

Behavior Modification, Vol. 16, No. 1, 39-63 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/01454455920161002
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