EFFECTIVENESS OF A SOCIAL-RELATIONS INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR AGGRESSIVE AND NONAGGRESSIVE, REJECTED CHILDREN

A sample of 52 Black aggressive, rejected and nonaggressive, rejected children were randomly assigned to receive a social relations interven tion or to be in a nonintervention control group. The school-based int ervention for fourth-grade children focused on positive social skill t raining and cognitive-behavioral strategies to promote deliberate, non impulsive problem solving. Al both the posttreatment and the 1-year fo llow-up assessments, the social relations intervention was found to be effective only with the aggressive, rejected children. Implications f or the importance of assessing subtypes of rejected children are discu ssed.