Social Perception Training – an essential Social Competence component when working with youngpeople with behavioral problems

Abstract

The development of Social Perception Training has been influenced by the social information processing theory formulated by Crick and Dodge (1994) with the later inclusion of emotions and morality into the model (Lemerise & Arsenio, 2000; Arsenio & Lemerise, 2004). Based on this model, we view the reaction of cognitive, moral and emotional processing through the following five-step process -Encoding of Cues -Interpretation of Social Signals -Clarification of Goals -Generating Alternative Actions -Response Decision