Social Skills Training programs applied in Spanish-speaking countries

Abstract

<jats:p>Social skills are described as those behaviors that help the individual to maintain an interpersonal relationship, expressing personal elements (thoughts, opinions, emotions) adequately according to the context of the situation but also allowing him to respect the behaviors of others, minimizing possible problems or offering solutions for those that already exist. When there are deficiencies in these abilities, alterations in the social relationships that the person has can be generated, reaching in some cases even psychopathological disorders. Training in social skills is an option that has been effective for the treatment of various situations; for example, in psychopathologies such as social anxiety or schizophrenia, to generate the ability to resolve interpersonal conflicts, strengthen socialization. This work has the objective of carrying out a review of social skills training programs that have been applied in Spanish speaking countries. The search process was carried out from the databases Ebsco, Springer Link, Dialnet, and Google Scholar, to be able to collect the original articles published in which some type of training has been carried out, during the period of 2014-2020, 12 articles that met the analysis criteria were used for the review. From the reviewed articles, it can be observed that they obtained results of statistically significant difference in the pre-, and post-intervention, this is useful to characterize said training, and generate novel intervention programs.</jats:p>