TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Skills and Relapse History in Outpatient Schizophrenics
AU - Sullivan, Greer
AU - Marder, Stephen R.
AU - Liberman, Robert P.
AU - Donahoe, Clyde P.
AU - Mintz, Jim
N1 - Funding Information:
Greer Sullivan, MD, MSPH, is UCLA Assistant Research Psychiatrist, Brentwood VA Rehabilitation Service, and Senior Natural Scientist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA 90406. Stephen R. Marder, MD, is Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Brentwood VA Hospital, West Los Angeles. Robert P. Liberman, MD, is Chief, Rehabilitation Services, and Professor, UCLA Department of Psychi· atry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Brentwood VA Hospital, West Los Angeles. Clyde P. Donahoe, PhD, is Staff Psychologist and Director of Psychology Training, Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, San Antonio. Jim Mintz, PhD, is Professor, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Brentwood VA Hospital, West Los Angeles. Supported by NIMH Research Training Grant 14584, the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, and NCHSR Training Grant 1-T32-HS0007 (Dr. Sullivan). The authors thank Michael Goldstein, PhD, for support and advice. Gaye Leff Hirsch, Joanne McKenzie, Karen Zimmerman and Nichole Chabert assisted with data collection. Sun Hwang assisted with data analysis.
PY - 1990/11
Y1 - 1990/11
N2 - PERSONS with schizophrenia commonly have impaired social functioning (Wallace 1984). Those with greater impairments, particularly as measured by premorbid social attainment, have a poorer clinical prognosis (Strauss and Carpenter 1972). Interventions designed to improve social competence, such as social skills training, have yielded generalizable and durable effects and may have reduced relapse rates (Wallace and Liberman 1985; Liberman et al. 1986; Hogarty et al. 1986). Thus, a valid measure of social skills should be a useful clinical and research tool. This research explores the validity of a new instrument for measuring such skills, the Assessment of Interpersonal Problem Solving Skills (AIPSS) (Donahoe et al., this issue). The AIPSS differs from more conventional social functioning measures because it 1) utilizes observations of role-playing, rather than self-report or third-party report; 2) provides a rating of the patient’s current rather than past functioning; 3) involves videotaped simulated “real life” situations that pose challenges to the patient’s ability to solve socially relevant problems; 4) permits assessment of patient’s social perception, processing of social information for action planning, and verbal and nonverbal social responses. In this study, we examined the relationship between these parameters of schizophrenic patients’ social functioning and their recent relapse history.
AB - PERSONS with schizophrenia commonly have impaired social functioning (Wallace 1984). Those with greater impairments, particularly as measured by premorbid social attainment, have a poorer clinical prognosis (Strauss and Carpenter 1972). Interventions designed to improve social competence, such as social skills training, have yielded generalizable and durable effects and may have reduced relapse rates (Wallace and Liberman 1985; Liberman et al. 1986; Hogarty et al. 1986). Thus, a valid measure of social skills should be a useful clinical and research tool. This research explores the validity of a new instrument for measuring such skills, the Assessment of Interpersonal Problem Solving Skills (AIPSS) (Donahoe et al., this issue). The AIPSS differs from more conventional social functioning measures because it 1) utilizes observations of role-playing, rather than self-report or third-party report; 2) provides a rating of the patient’s current rather than past functioning; 3) involves videotaped simulated “real life” situations that pose challenges to the patient’s ability to solve socially relevant problems; 4) permits assessment of patient’s social perception, processing of social information for action planning, and verbal and nonverbal social responses. In this study, we examined the relationship between these parameters of schizophrenic patients’ social functioning and their recent relapse history.
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U2 - 10.1521/00332747.1990.11024518
DO - 10.1521/00332747.1990.11024518
M3 - Article
C2 - 2263677
AN - SCOPUS:0025036913
VL - 53
SP - 340
EP - 345
JO - Psychiatry (New York)
JF - Psychiatry (New York)
SN - 0033-2747
IS - 4
ER -