The analysis of classroom-based social skills training in children

先前基于课堂的社交技能训练的研究结果经常表明，由于新的课堂组织，学生失去了长期保持学习成果的能力。本研究在课堂组织前两个月对3 ~ 5年级的儿童进行了基于课堂的SST培训，共进行了6次培训，以实验方式证实了上述发现。结果表明，课堂SST对社交技能的提高是有效的，但在新班级组织后，课堂SST的显著提高急剧消失。这表明，除非每天从环境（如同伴、老师）中加强社交技能的表现，否则以课堂为基础的SST的积极效果会在短期内消失。之后，当我们进行一个促进会议，提醒参与者学习的社交技能，他们的社交技能表现倾向于提高。由此可见，营造有利于有效使用社交技能的环境，定期进行社交技能强化训练，对维持社交技能的使用是非常重要的。基于上述研究，我们认为在全校范围内实施的以学校为基础的社会技能培训似乎可以建立和维持社会技能培训的收益，因为在多种环境中有丰富的机会来加强社会技能的使用。接下来，我们进行了以学校为基础的SST（10次），正如预期的那样，在SST之后，社会技能得分提高了，并且在六个月的后续评估中保持了收益。

The previous findings of classroom based social skills training have often shown the loss of long-term maintenance of gain due to of the new class organization.In the present study, the classroom based SST with children from 3^<rd> to fifth grade, consisiting 6 training sessions, was conducted at two months before classroom organization to confirm the above findings experimentally. The result indicated that the classroom SST was effective for the gain of social skills, but after the new class organization, significant gains of classroom SST disappeared dramatically. This suggested that the positive effect of classroom based SST passed away in short term period unless the performance of social skills should be reinforced from environment (e.g. peer, teacher) everyday. Afterward, when we conducted a booster session that reminded participants of the learned social skills, their social skills performance tended to increase. Thus, it indicated that setting up the environment that reinforce to effective social skills use and conducting the booster sessions periodically was very important to maintain the social skills use.Based on the above study, it was suggested that the school based SST, implemented with whole school, seems to establish and maintain the gain of SST because there are rich opportunities to reinforce the social skills use in the multiple settings. Next we carried out the school based SST (10 sessions), and as expected, found that following the SST, social skills scores increased and the gains were maintained to six-month follow-up assessment.