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Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia

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FALCAO, Alessandra Pereira; BOLSONI-SILVA, Alessandra Turini; MAGRI, Natália  and  MORETTO, Laísa Aparecida. PROMOVE-Children: effects of training in social skills for children with behavior problem. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.2, pp.590-612. ISSN 1808-4281.

The objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a group intervention with children to promote children's social skills and reduce behavior problems. Participants were seven children (two girls and five boys, aged between 7 and 9 years) attending the second year of elementary school and were diagnosed as clinical tools for the CBCL behavior problems and TRF answered by parents and teachers respectively, before and after the intervention, in four phases (baseline, pre-test, post-test and monitoring), as a result measure. The intervention consisted of eight sessions in which social skills were taught. As process as the recordings were analyzed for all sessions, organized in the early, intermediate and final. Behavior problems remained at low frequency throughout the intervention From the CBCL and TRF can be verified statistically significant difference in the externalizing behaviors when compared stages of pre and post-test. The procedure was able to teach social skills that have changed statistically compared the initial-intermediate and intermediate-final stage.

Keywords : behavior problems; social skills; group intervention.

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