Social skills training for drug users: Systematic literature review

Authors

  • Jéssica Limberger Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
  • Vanessa Trintin-Rodrigues Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
  • Bruna Hartmann Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
  • Ilana Andretta Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/ctc.2017.101.08

Abstract

Literature describes that drug users have low scores in social skills and that these can be developed by the Social Skills Training (SST). However, they need systematizations about such intervention in the national and international contexts. Thus, the objective of his paper is to identify empirical studies on SST for drug users in treatment, analyzing how the intervention has been used, benefits and possible limitations of its application with this population. This study is a systematic review of literature on Medline Complete, Scopus, IBECS, Index Psi and LILACS. The descriptors and boolean operators “social skills” AND “training” AND “substance-related disorders” were used. There were included five articles that contemplated the inclusion criteria: empirical article, having as target people with disorder by substance use and who have used SST in the treatment for drug use. It was observed that interventions have been performed to complement other techniques, being beneficial to the increase of social skills of drug users. However, most studies did not show results that were unique to the THS,so that there is the need for special tools for assessing social skills. This issue implies the need for studies to identify the effects of SSTT and describe its procedures in detail.

Keywords: social skills, training, substance-related disorders.

Author Biographies

Jéssica Limberger, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Doutoranda em Psicologia Clínica (UNISINOS). Bolsista CAPES/PROSUP

Vanessa Trintin-Rodrigues, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Mestranda em Psicologia Clínica (UNISINOS). Bolsista CAPES/PROSUP

Bruna Hartmann, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Acadêmica do Curso de Psicologia da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Ilana Andretta, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Professora no Programa de Pós - Graduação em Psicologia na Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

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Published

2017-07-13

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2017): Jan-Jun

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