Abstract

LEME, Vanessa Barbosa Romera  and  BOLSONI-SILVA, Alessandra Turini. Social skills and behavior problems: an exploratory study based on theconstructional approach. Aletheia [online]. 2010, n.31, pp. 149-167. ISSN 1413-0394.

The research aimed to assess, according to the constructional approach by Goldiamond, the reports of 20 mothers of children with behavior problems, (clinical group) and 20 mothers of children without these problems (non-clinical group), social skills and behavior problems of pre-school, investigate the situations and behaviors of mothers before the behavior of children and suggest hypotheses for functionally equivalent behaviors that were investigated. The instruments used were two scales, a questionnaire and a structured interview. The results indicated that children of non-clinical group presented with more frequency and diversity, social skills and with less frequency, of behavior problems compared to children of the clinical group.

Keywords : Social skills; Behavior problems; Constructional approach.

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