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Download full textBanks, Reginald; And Others – 1997
Social Skills Training (SST) has become a popular and effective means of prevention and intervention with adolescent populations exhibiting behavioral difficulties. Early in their development many African-American youth are exposed to homicide, crime, and interpersonal violence. The acquisition of social skills is critical to the development of…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Anger, Behavior Problems, Black Youth
Peer reviewedBanks, Reginald; Hogue, Aaron; Liddle, Howard; Timberlake, Terri – Journal of Negro Education, 1996
Compared the effectiveness for inner-city African-American youth (n=64) of two social-skills training curricula focusing on problem solving, anger management, and conflict resolution. Both the Afrocentric curriculum and the one that was merely culturally relevant yielded similar decreases in anger and increases in assertiveness and self-control.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Afrocentrism, Black Students, Cultural Awareness
