Treinamento de habilidades sociais para pais de crianças com queixas escolares
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2008-02-21Autor
Barros, Sibely Karina da Silva Nogueira de
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The relation between learning disabilities and school subjects can be easily seen by lay people
as well as by professionals and students in the area. Besides this relation, literature has shown
that a child s family environment, mainly the parents, play an important role in either
strengthening or weakening social skills and study habits. This research was aimed at testing
the effects of a training program in educational social skills for parents on their children s
school performance. The present study involved 15 parents whose children, 1st 8th graders
from public and private schools, were denominated by their children as having scholl
problems. Parents were divided randomly in an Experimental Group (N=8) and a nonequivalent
Control Group (N=7). The training program in social skills for parents was
structured in thirteen sessions which took place once a week, each lasting approximately 120
minutes, in a Psychology Clinic located in a town in the state of São Paulo. Instruments of
direct and indirect verification were used to evaluate behavior: filming, Checklist for parents
and Test of School Performance ( Teste de Desempenho Escolar , TDE-Stein, 1994). The
study was divided into four stages: (a) initial evaluation; (b) intervention; (c) final evaluation;
and (d) follow-up after six months. Descriptive statistics was used to present data and content
analysis was used to interpret the results, especially with regards to its clinical relevance and
social acceptance. Results suggest that there has been an increase in social skills reported by
the parents and an improvement in their children s school performance after intervention.
Parent s social skills seem to have contributed positively to the reduction of their children s
school problems. Parents who are highly involved in their children s lives can behave in
desirable manner with regards to helping in school chores, as well as serving as good models
in social and academic situations, which in turn help improve children s social and academic
skills. The training program in social skills for parents has proved to be an effective method to
solve interaction problems, especially those related to the school problems complaints on the
school performance and/or related to the social interactions in classroom. These results also
demonstrate the importance of positive involvement from both parents on their children s
social-emotional development and school performance and the necessity of training programs for parents.