ABSTRACT
A fundamental component of psychiatric rehabilitation is the assessment of the skills needed by an individual to function effectively. Clearly, the concept of social skill is fundamental to both assessment (see Chapters 1 and 2) and treatment (see Chapters 5, 6, 8, and 11) in psychiatric rehabilitation. In particular, two types of skill, cognitive and behavioral, have currently become the focus of social skill research and program development. Yet there is little objective information on the constituents of effective cognitive and behavioral skills and, therefore, on what skills meaningfully differentiate psychiatrically disabled and normal populations. Consequently, there is no consensus regarding what social skill phenomena to assess and train.
