Multimedia Social Skills Training for At-risk Adolescents Phase II

高危青少年多媒体社交技能培训第二阶段

• 批准号: 7277788
• 负责人: D. SUE VERNON
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: EDGE ENTERPRISES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2009-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7277788
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Adult; Behavior; Child; Class; Commit; Control Groups; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Environment; Foundations; Future; Goals; Group Homes; Individual; Instruction; Knowledge; Learning; Life; Methodology; Minor; Modeling; Multimedia; Numbers; Perception; Performance; Phase; Prevention; Problem behavior; Public Health; Purpose; Rate; Recording of previous events; Relative (related person); Resistance; Risk; Role playing therapy; Schools; Services; Small Business Funding Mechanisms; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Social Adjustment; Social Behavior; Social Problems; Social isolation; Societies; Special Education; Students; Suspension substance; Suspensions; Testing; Time; Training; Translating; Writing; Youth; aged; anti social; authority; base; design; detention center; emotional adjustment; experience; foster care; instructor; interactive multimedia; intervention program; mental health center; model development; patient home care; prevent; probation; programs; prototype; psychologic; research and development; skills; skills training; social; social skills

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Multimedia social skills instruction for at-risk adolescents. The purpose of this project is to design, pilot test, and field test interactive multimedia (IM) programs for teaching social skills to youths with social-adjustment problems. The instructional programs will be designed for use in a variety of settings, including special education classes, in- school suspension programs, group homes, foster-care homes, mental-health centers, probation programs, transition programs, and detention centers. The IM prototype previously developed in the Phase I project will be used as a model for an expanded version of the original program plus two additional instructional programs to be developed in this Phase II project. The three instructional programs will serve as alternatives to traditional adult-directed formats currently used in social skills instruction. The IM programs will be field tested with adolescents with a history of social problems. A pretest-posttest control-group design will be used in each field test, with each field test focusing on one program. The effectiveness of each program will be evaluated relative to: (a) youth use of the IM program, (b) youth knowledge of the social skills, (c) youth use of the social skills, (d) adult perception of student use of the social skills in the natural environment, (e) judges' ratings of youth use of the social skills in role-play performances, (f) disciplinary offenses committed by the youths, (g) social validity of the medium, and (h) required instructional time. This project is relevant to public health because the number of youths with social problems is substantial. Their problems are common, persistent, often escalate from minor conduct problems to criminal offenses, are resistant to change, and are associated with poor psychological and emotional adjustment later in life. The empirically validated IM products that will result from this project will address the potentially devastating effects that social maladjustment can cause in children's lives and in society at large. Since social conduct problems are highly correlated with future criminal activity (Loeber & Farrington, 1998), an important goal for our society is the instruction of appropriate social behavior, especially with those children who have been identified as having behavior problems. The training would be used to prevent social isolation, address antisocial behavior, and provide youth with alternatives to the behaviors that result in formal and informal reprimands from authority. The instructional modules that will result from this project will be usable as prevention or intervention programs based on individual needs. In addition, the proposed programs will serve as a model for the development of future IM programs for youths.

描述（由申请人提供）：高危青少年的多媒体社交技能指导。该项目的目的是设计，试点测试和现场测试互动多媒体（IM）计划，以向具有社交调整问题的年轻人讲授社交技能。该教学计划将设计用于各种环境，包括特殊教育课程，学校暂停计划，团体住房，寄养家庭，心理健康中心，缓刑计划，过渡计划和拘留中心。先前在I阶段项目中开发的IM原型将被用作原始程序的扩展版本以及在此II阶段项目中开发的两个其他教学程序的模型。这三个教学计划将作为当前在社交技能教学中使用的传统成人指导格式的替代方案。 IM计划将与具有社会问题史的青少年进行现场测试。每个现场测试将使用预测试控制组的设计，每个现场测试都集中在一个程序上。 The effectiveness of each program will be evaluated relative to: (a) youth use of the IM program, (b) youth knowledge of the social skills, (c) youth use of the social skills, (d) adult perception of student use of the social skills in the natural environment, (e) judges' ratings of youth use of the social skills in role-play performances, (f) disciplinary offenses committed by the youths, (g) social validity of the medium, and (h) required instructional 时间。该项目与公共卫生有关，因为社会问题的年轻人数量很大。他们的问题很普遍，持久，通常从轻微的行为问题升级为刑事犯罪，对变革具有抵抗力，并且与以后的心理和情感调整相关。该项目将产生的经验验证的IM产品将解决社会不当行为可能在儿童生活和整个社会中造成的潜在破坏性影响。由于社会行为问题与未来的犯罪活动高度相关（Loeber＆Farrington，1998），因此我们社会的重要目标是指导适当的社会行为，尤其是那些被确定为行为问题的孩子。该培训将用于防止社会隔离，解决反社会行为，并为年轻人提供导致权威正式和非正式谴责的行为的替代方案。根据个人需求，该项目将由该项目产生的教学模块作为预防或干预计划可用。此外，拟议的计划将成为开发未来IM计划的年轻人计划的典范。