“…Recently, Holtzworth-Munroe (1992b) proposed that the problem of intimate abusiveness may be explained using McFall's (1982) socialcognitive model, an explanatory model which has been used extensively in other areas of social skills research. Previously, McFall's model has been used to identify social skills deficits in populations including depressed college males (Fisher-Beckfield & McFall, 1982), psychiatric inpatients (Goldsmith & McFall, 1975), delinquent adolescent boys (Freedman, Rosenthal, Donahoe, Schlundt, & McFall, 1987;Holtzworth-Munroe, 1992b), rapists (Lipton, McDonel, & McFall, 1987;McDonel & McFall, 1991), and aggressive boys (Dodge & Coie, 1987). According to the model, "social skills are ... the specific abilities that enable a person to perform competently at particular social tasks" (McFall, 1982, p. 23).…”