Effect of Social Competence Training-Based Storytelling on Social Skills and Behavioral Problems of 8-10 Year-Old Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)

The effect of social competence training-based storytelling on social skills and behavioral problems of 8-10 year-old children with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is investigated in this study. This research is a semi-experimental design with pre-test, post-test, and control group. 45 children who had received scores above the cut-point on oppositional defiant disorder subtest of Child Behavioral Checklist (CBCL) and whose problems were also confirmed by the Teacher Report Form (TRF) were selected. Then, Social Skills Rating System (Teacher Report Form) was administered to their teachers. A sum of 28 child with ODD who had received poor scores on social skills subtest of SSRS and whose behavioral problems were confirmed in behavioral problems subtest of SSRS was finally selected. Subjects were divided into control and experimental groups. The experimental group received social competence training-based storytelling for 15 sessions, each of which lasted 60 minutes. Upon the completion of the training, SSRS (Teacher Report Form) was administered as a post-test to both groups of teachers. The results were analyzed using Mann-Whitney U and indicated that teachers in the experimental group reported a significant increase in total score of social skills (p>0/001) and significant decrease in behavioral problems scores (p>0/01) of children with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) as compared to the control group.