STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF A SOCIAL SKILLS TRAINING-PROGRAM FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDREN

The differential efficiency of the behavioral training in social skill s under two experimental conditions were assessed in this study: (1)so cial skills training only with mothers; (2) social skills training wit h mothers and children. The sample comprised 33 mother-child couples. Twenty-two of them were assigned to the experimental groups and eleven of them to the control group. The children were in Ist, 2nd, and 3rd form of E.G.B. (primary education from 6 to 9 years old) and belonged to families with lower-middle socioeconomic level. The results obtaine d confirm the efficiency of social skills training with mothers. No di fferences with statistical significance were found between the two exp erimental groups, although they differed in some measures in compariso n to the control group.