Effectiveness of social skills training on reducing symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder in children

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of social skills training on the reduction of symptoms of coping disorder in children. This quasi-experimental study is a pre-test-posttest with control group. The statistical population consisted of girls with disobedience disorder who were referred to Fars Educational Counseling Center. For this purpose, 40 subjects were selected in a randomized sampling method in three experimental groups (each group of 10) and a control group (10 persons). The intervention was provided for 13 sessions for children and 8 for parents. In this research, clinical interviews and CSI-4 (Parent form) children's symptom questionnaire were used to diagnose the disordered coping disorder. The follow-up phase was performed two months after the intervention. Findings based on covariance analysis and LSD test showed that social skills training for children, parents and parent-child has a significant effect on reducing the symptoms of coping disorder in children. Also, the findings in the follow up phase showed that social skills training was effective in controlling the symptoms of childhood disobedience in parents, children and parent-child. The results of this study indicate that social skills training reduces the symptoms of childhood disobedience disorder.