The effect of Social skills training based on cognitive- behavioral approach on psychological adjustment of Blind male students.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of social skill training on psychological adjustment of Blind male students. This is an experiment study with pre test- post test control group design. The statistical population consisted of all (36) Blind students of middle grades (12‏to‏14 years) of Ababasir School in Esfahan as both experimental and control group. A sample of 18 student from each group were chosen from the population, by purposive sampling. Before intervention, the bell's Adjustment inventory (Be, 1967) was administrated to both groups. Afterwards experimental group received social skills training for 16 sessions (60 minutes each) in a period of two month, twice a week. One week after, the training, the post test was given to both groups. Results were analyzed using T test. findings indicated that social training were significantly effective in enhance psychological adjustment (P<0.01). What has been achieved in this research is the effectiveness training in social skills to increase the students psychological adjustment. The possible explanation for the increasing student's psychological adjustment might be due to participation of the experimental group in the social skills training program.