title: Social-skills training to modify abusive verbal outbursts in adults.
abstract: Social-skills training was used to modify abusive verbal outbursts displayed by two adult psychiatric patients. Five target behaviors--looking, irrelevant comments, hostile comments, inappropriate requests, and appropriate requests were monitored during role-played situations. Social-skills training, consisting of behavior rehearsal with modelling, focused instructions, and feedback, was introduced in a multiple-baseline design across individuals. Training improved all target behaviors. The improved behavior generalized to: (1) novel scenes role-played with the original respondent, (2) training and novel scenes role-played with a different respondent, and (3) interpersonal situations on the hospital ward.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000374:Aggression; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012381:Role Playing; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior; D014705:Verbal Behavior