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Social skills training for the complex offender: Employment seeking skills
Author(s) -
Twentyman Craig T.,
Jensen Marcus,
Kloss James D.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197804)34:2<320::aid-jclp2270340211>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - psychology , incentive , referral , unemployment , social skills , training (meteorology) , cognition , clinical psychology , job interview , medical education , developmental psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , nursing , medicine , physics , meteorology , economics , microeconomics , economic growth
Compared 11 probationers with a history of psychiatric referral to a randomly selected group of uneployed persons from the State Unemployemnt Office in a number of job interview assessment situations. The probationers were rated as less skillful and also rated themselves as less likely to obtain employment than did the control S s. After this pretest, the probationers were assigned to one of two treatment groups in which either monetary incentives for job interviews were provided or a skills training program was initiated. Posttest scores indicated that the skills program was most effective in changing behavioral and cognitive responses. These results generalized during the follow‐up period; the skills training group obtained employment more frequently than did the incentive group. Implications for training critical skill deficits are discussed in terms of a response acquistion model.