1. Social skills training teaches clients skills to access reinforcers and lessen life punishment.2. Despite the popularity of social skills training , its effectiveness is not firmly established. 3. Social skills training has some empirical support particularly for schizophrenia.4. Furthermore, providing social skills training has helped many persons. 5. Welsh and Coffey both say schools could help by adding social skills training to the curriculum. 6. Perhaps some social skills training would be helpful. 7. Social skills training can be adapted to the treatment of depression with a focus on assertiveness training.8. "' Skillstreaming "'is a social skills training method introduced by Dr . Arnold P . Goldstein in 1973. 9. There is also some evidence for benefits from social skills training , although there have also been significant negative findings. 10. In addition, the same author suggests that social skills training adjunctive to inpatient treatment of alcohol dependence is probably efficacious.
