The article presents a social skills package for use by occupational therapy staff working with chronic psychiatric patients, The training package is evaluated and results indicate its effectiveness. Difficulties encountered in running social skills training groups in a hospital setting are discussed. The importance of generalization training for social skills is stressed.
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