Citation

Nangle DW, Erdley C, Carpenter EM, Newman JE. Aggress. Violent Behav. 2002; 7(2): 169-199.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

Social skills training (SST) has emerged as a frontline treatment approach for aggressive children and adolescents. The present review evaluates this sizable literature from a developmental-clinical perspective. More specifically, the review summarizes key developmental findings, assesses the status of existing efforts to integrate these developmental findings into clinical research, and discusses intervention implications. Summaries of developmental findings are divided into six major areas: age, gender, race, identification of intervention samples, social cognition, and peer group influences. The review indicates that efforts to incorporate developmental findings and principles into clinical research have fallen woefully short. Even the most fundamental developmental considerations were frequently overlooked. Despite these general limitations, the review highlights a number of noteworthy developmental-clinical integration attempts and concludes with a discussion of directions for future research.