title: [The training of social skills in children with ADHD - results of a pilot study].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Insufficient social competence belongs to the most frequent concomitants of ADHD. This is the first therapeutic concept for the training of social skills adapted to the specific deficits of children with ADHD and developed in the German-speaking region.
  
  
  METHODS
  In a two-group, pre-posttest design with untreated waiting control group, 40 children between 7 and 13 years with the diagnoses F90.0, F90.1, and F98.8 were examined; 15 % were female, 85 % male. In groups of three they took part in the newly developed 10-h training TEAM. The record sheet of social skills for parents (ESF-E) was used to measure social competence. In addition, we recorded attention performances (FBB ADHS) and concomitant psychic factors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Significant effects of the training were demonstrated for almost all social skills (MANOVA/GLM). The outcomes on the different components of attention and the psychosocial concomitant factors are without uniformity. The strongest effects appeared in the areas of conflict management, regulation of emotions, and the capacity for empathy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Training of social skills is a sensible and effective supplement in the therapy of ADHD. An examination of long-term effects still needs to be done.
authors.affiliation: Klinik Hochried, Murnau. marion.pothmann@gmx.de
authors.forename: Marion
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schmitman Gen Pothmann
authors.forename: Ulrike
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Petermann
authors.forename: Franz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Petermann
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zakis
mesh_terms: D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D015897:Comorbidity; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome