title: A randomized effectiveness trial of individual child social skills training: six-month follow-up.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Individual Social Skills Training (ISST) is a short term, individually delivered intervention (8-10 sessions) that promotes social skills in children with emerging or existing conduct problems. This study examined the effectiveness of ISST immediately and 6 months after the termination of the intervention.
  
  
  METHODS
  The participants were 198 children (3-12 years) who were randomly assigned to ISST or practice as usual. The data were collected from parents, children and teachers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings showed positive change on most outcomes in both study conditions. However, examining the relative effectiveness of the intervention, only one positive effect of ISST emerged on parent-reported child conduct problems immediately after intervention.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results suggest that compared to the control group, ISST had limited effects in ameliorating child problem behavior. These data suggest that it is not sufficient to provide ISST when aiming to reduce conduct problems in children.
authors.affiliation: The Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 7053, Majorstuen, 0306 Oslo Norway.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kjøbli
authors.affiliation: The Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 7053, Majorstuen, 0306 Oslo Norway.
authors.forename: Terje
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ogden
keywords: Child social skills training; Conduct problems; Effectiveness study; Randomized controlled trial