The effectiveness of social skills training on reduction of behavioral and emotional disorders mentally retarded male primary school students in Kermanshah

The present study aims to determine the effectiveness the learning of social skills on decrease of behavioral and mental abnormalities of male students with emotional disorder in the city of Kermanshah in 2016 and 2017.
The present method is semi-experimental with the method of pretest –post test and the witness group. The statistical society of the study includes all male preliminary students of special school in the city of Kermanshah in the educational year of 2016-2017. In this research, 30 students according to their age and intelligence score were categories, so that students with similar age and intelligence score in the age range between 7 -9 were selected (IQ55-70). After randomly categorization, the students were divided into two groups including experimental and witness. 12 learning session of social skills were held twice a week on the members of the control group were place in the waiting list.
Findings: The analysis showed that the learning of social skills leads to decrease behavioral and mental abnormalities. The most important results of this research are the effectiveness of skills and their usefulness in decreasing the abnormalities.
thence it is concluded that learning social skills is effective in decreasing behavioral and emotional disorders of male preliminary students has been effective.