Other 'What Works' Topics
Social Competency
By Elizabeth C. Hair, Ph.D., Justin Jager, and Sarah B. Garrett
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Parent-Child Relationship Sibling Relationships Grandparent and Other Family Member Relationships Non-Familial Adult Relationships Peer Relationships: Platonic Relationships Peer Relationships: Romantic Relationships Conflict Resolution Skills
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Intimacy Skills Prosocial Behaviors Self-Control/Behavior Regulation Social Confidence: Assertiveness, Self-Efficacy, and Initiative Empathy/Sympathy    
Interpersonal Skills

  Experimental Research Studies Non-Experimental Research Studies
Conflict Resolution Skills
Program Level

- Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT): Intervention involving parent training and child-behavior modification program.

- Adolescent Transitions Program (ATP): A program that focuses on both improving parents' management skills and developing adolescents' goals/limit setting ability, peer supports, and problem solving ability.

- Anger Coping Program: A program designed to increase adolescent perspective-taking, social problem-solving and social skills for managing conflict situations.

- Big Brothers/Big Sisters (BB/BS): A one-on-one mentoring program for youth.

- Positive Youth Development Program: A program that used stress management, self-esteem enhancement, problem-solving, assertiveness training and the use of social networks.

- 12-session anger-control program providing training in problem-solving, relaxation, and coping strategy.

 
Individual Level

-Agreeable disposition.

Family Level

-Siblings with constructive conflict strategies.

-Parents with constructive strategies to resolve marital conflicts.

Peer Level

-Peer acceptance.

Program Level

-Programs that employ a reciprocal social skills training approach for delinquent adolescents and their parent(s).

-Adolescent Social Skills Effectiveness Training (ASSET): A social skills training program aimed at reducing parent-child conflict.


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