Improving coping skills of emotionally disturbed boys through television-based social problem solving.
Ten specially selected videotapes, showing children involved in working through problem situations, were shown twice a week for five weeks to boys in special education classes at a residential treatment center, and were followed by discussions led by teachers and aides. Multiple overlapping control groups were used in a pretest, posttest, follow-up design. Results indicated clear gains in emotional control, personality functioning, and prosocial behavior and, at a two-month follow-up, gains in self-reliant learning by boys subject to the experimental condition.
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D004519:Education, Special; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D011340:Problem Solving; D012649:Self Concept; D012917:Social Adjustment; D014743:Videotape Recording