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Examination of a Social Problem-Solving Intervention to Treat Selective Mutism

Mark O'Reilly

The University of Texas at Austin, markoreilly{at}mail.utexas.edu

Deirdre McNally

University College Dublin

Jeff Sigafoos

The University of Tasmania

Giulio E. Lancioni

University of Bari

Vanessa Green

The University of Tasmania

Chaturi Edrisinha

St. Cloud State University

Wendy Machalicek

The University of Texas at Austin

Audrey Sorrells

The University of Texas at Austin

Russell Lang

The University of Texas at Austin

Robert Didden

Radbound University Nijmegen

The authors examined the use of a social problem-solving intervention to treat selective mutism with 2 sisters in an elementary school setting. Both girls were taught to answer teacher questions in front of their classroom peers during regular classroom instruction. Each girl received individualized instruction from a therapist and was taught to discriminate salient social cues, select an appropriate social response, perform the response, and evaluate her performance. The girls generalized the skills to their respective regular classrooms and maintained the skills for up to 3 months after the removal of the intervention. Experimental control was demonstrated using a multiple baseline design across participants. Limitations of this study and issues for future research are discussed.

Key Words: selective mutism • behavior therapy • social problem-solving strategies • assessment/treatment of challenging behavior • social competence

Behavior Modification, Vol. 32, No. 2, 182-195 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0145445507309018
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