Titre
Impact on assertivity of a social skills training with adolescents suffering from psychotic or anxiety/mood disorders: An exploratory study
Type
abstract de conférence/colloque
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Série
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
Auteur(s)
Urben, Sebastien
Auteure/Auteur
Lambelet, Frederic
Auteure/Auteur
Jaugey, Laure
Auteure/Auteur
Halfon, Olivier
Auteure/Auteur
Holzer, Laurent
Auteure/Auteur
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Titre du livre ou conférence/colloque
From neurobiology to public policy. Abstracts of the 8th International Conference on Early Psychosis: From Neurobiology to Public Policy
Adresse
Oct 11-13, 2012; San Francisco, CA, United States
ISBN
1751-7893
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2012
Volume
6
Première page
90
Langue
anglais
Résumé
During adolescence numerous of important social abilities are acquired within interactions with peers. Severe psychiatric disorders interfere with the acquisition of these social skills. For example, due to excessive shyness, adolescents with psychiatric disorders may not experiment positive social interactions. Social skills training (SKT) may help adolescents to remediate to these diffi culties. This exploratory study aims to assess the SKT's effect on assertivity, in a population of adolescents presenting psychiatric disorder and attending a day care unit for adolescents. The SKT, delivered in group, deals with different themes such as contact, conversation, problem solving, confl ict, fail, success, learning, effort, separation, breakdown, and project. In this context, 38 adolescents (19 suffering from anxiety / mood disorder and 19 suffering from psychotic disorder) rate their level of assertivity before and after a SKT with the Rathus assertivity scale. This scale allows to differentiate between inhibited, assertive and assertiveaggressive adolescents. Results showed a general improvement on assertivity after the SKT. More specifi cally, adolescents suffering from anxiety disorder and the 'inhibited' adolescents showed the higher benefi t from the SKT. Thus, two hours per week of SKT seems to enhance social abilities in a population with severe psychiatric disorders. More specifi - cally, adolescents with anxiety / mood disorders reported more benefi ts of the SKT on their assertivity. Nevertheless, adolescents with psychotic disorders did not report strong benefi ts from the SKT despite the improvement observed at a clinical level. This observation raises questions about the usefulness of self-reported questionnaire to measure such benefi t for adolescents with psychosis.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_B5D086E78258
Date de création
2012-12-12T16:00:05.585Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T22:40:25Z