PREP Webinar: Social Skills Training for Long-term Psychiatric Inpatients

The training will begin with a brief rationale for the importance of social skills training (SST) as a rehabilitation approach for improving social and community functioning in people with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses. This will be followed by a brief history of SST and its current status as an evidence-based practice. Next, the basic logistics and teaching methods of SST will be reviewed, including the selection of skills curricula taught. The remainder of the presentation will focus on providing SST in long-term inpatient settings, including logistical considerations for running SST groups, social skills curricula, and strategies for maximizing the generalization of skills from the group to patients’ daily lives, including on the ward and in the community. Participants will be introduced to a new clinical resource for providing SST to people recovering from serious mental illness, including those living in inpatient settings: Mueser, K. T. et al. (2024). Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia: A Step-by-Step Guide (Third ed.). New York: Guilford Press.

Presented by: Kim Mueser, Ph.D., Professor of Occupational Therapy and Psychological and Brain Sciences, researcher at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.