Social Skills Interventions and Children with Behavior Problems: A Review

This article reviews 27 studies that examine social skills interventions and their effects on students with behavior problems. Results of these studies indicate that a number of social skills interventions have been successful with children with behavior problems. The social skills interventions yielded changes in self, teacher, and parent perceptions. Peer perceptions seem to be more resistant to change, though, and should be more closely addressed in future research.