Holley S
Br J Soc Clin Psychol. 1980 Sep;19(3):279-85. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1980.tb00354.x.
The importance of social effectiveness in securing personal needs, and of social competence training in rehabilitation programmes for psychiatric and mentally retarded patients, have been frequently stated. The need to improve further the social effectiveness, especially communication skills, of the mentally retarded prior to discharge from hospital has been particularly stressed. However, the focus of communication training has been on linguistic and arithmetic skills, while little attention has been paid to non-verbal skills, this despite the fact that their importance in communication has been widely demonstrated. It is suggested here that improvement in basic interaction skills, including non-verbal components, will improve communication and increase the social effectiveness of the mentally retarded in the community outside the hospital. An attempt was made to improve mentally subjects' basic interaction skills by means of a social skills training group. There was significant improvement in target behaviours after training and some improvement was maintained at 8 weeks follow-up. The study suggests that such training groups might effectively the communication skills of mentally retarded subjects.
社会效能在满足个人需求方面的重要性，以及社交能力训练在精神疾病患者和智力迟钝患者康复项目中的重要性，已被多次提及。人们特别强调，在智力迟钝者出院前进一步提高其社会效能，尤其是沟通技巧的必要性。然而，沟通训练的重点一直放在语言和算术技能上，而对非语言技能却很少关注，尽管其在沟通中的重要性已得到广泛证明。本文认为，包括非语言成分在内的基本互动技能的提高，将改善沟通，并提高智力迟钝者在院外社区中的社会效能。我们试图通过一个社交技能训练小组来提高智力迟钝者的基本互动技能。训练后目标行为有显著改善，且在8周随访时仍保持了一些改善。该研究表明，这样的训练小组可能有效地提高智力迟钝者的沟通技巧。
