Promoting Social Skills
... Promoting social skills training in the classrooms: Issues for school counselors. ... Counselors have a major role in working together with classroom teachers to integrate social skill training in the classroom curriculum. Although school counselors are not able to provide social skills training to all students, they can serve as consultants who work closely with the classroom teachers to incorporate social skills training in the classroom. ... The recommendation for conducting the outcome assessment was (a) observation systems used to measure performance should correspond to skills taught during intervention; (b) outcome measures should reflect pretreatment skill deficiencies; and (c) outcome assessment should occur over an extended period of time in order to allow peers to change their perceptions of children receiving training and to ensure entrapment into the method.