Social Skills Performance Assessment (SSPA)

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  Hello everyone. My name is Brenda. I am doing my assignment on social skills.

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  Performance assessment. Also known as S. S. P. A.

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  As far as the creator I was unable to find who

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  created this assessment but I was able to find that S.

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  S. P. A.

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  Was adapted from roleplay task of the social problem

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  solving battery that was created by Ballack in 1990.

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  Um There is research that for role play task of social problem solving.

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  They used I used to be very extensive where they need

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  to record they needed to record the entire interview process.

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  This was designed to assess to social skills

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  which is social competence and social appropriateness.

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  It also assesses the verbal and nonverbal social communication.

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  It's important because it tells the individual their strengths and weaknesses

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  and the individual is able to add intervention where needed.

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  The population is intended for is ages 14 through 21.

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  Although I did find another article where this assessment was administered

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  um ages between 18 and 35 if I'm not wrong.

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  Um surprisingly when I chose this assessment I thought that

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  it was also be able to be administered to Children.

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  As that is the um the population I'm interested in working with.

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  But I also saw that um you're unable to do that

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  to give that assessment to Children.

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  But it is interesting how there's not very much um

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  assessments that can be given to adults who have um

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  autism.

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  Um So it also says as um individuals with behavioral emotional disorder.

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  I saw that there was a lot

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  uh research um

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  with S. S. P. A. That was given to individuals who have schizophrenia.

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  Um The topics that it covers our interest, disinterest fluency clarity,

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  focus effect and social appropriation.

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  And the way that this is administered is administered through role play.

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  And they are given real life scenarios that would happen in their everyday life.

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  So they're given a topic but the examiner will not

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  initiate a conversation or will not start the scenario.

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  Um That is up to the participant so it will only go as far as a participant wanted to

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  or able to at that. Um So how do we administer who can administer it?

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  So the president was able to administer.

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  It is a trained professional as it has proven

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  that self assessment or when given to a caregiver.

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  Um

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  They tend to use bias so they're unable to see where they lie in their social skills.

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  Um And then as I mentioned the way that

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  administered is through real life role play events.

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  So the core in the scoring scheme the way that it

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  works is in a like er like er type scale.

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  So from a scale from 1 to 55 being that there is no deficiency why one meaning

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  that it is showing social impairment and then three

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  there's means that their average in their performance.

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  So for reliability and validity I was unable to find very much on this but on

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  the resource and I saw a lot of um the research um for my S.

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  S. P. A. Being administered to individuals who have like schizophrenia.

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  So for that and they had really good reliability and validity.

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  Um But when I saw the article with the individuals who have autism.

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  Um And so that there was no correlation between

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  the convergent and divergent validity which which that was very surprising to see.

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  And then the takeaways that I take from this article.

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  Um I mean from this assessment is that there needs

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  to be more studies done with individuals who have autism.

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  Um

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  We need to have a better understanding of the age group.

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  But for the most part the age group would be adulthood and um adolescence.

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  Um

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  And I just think there has to be a little bit more research on S. S. P. A.

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  As I was very limited on what I was able to find.

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  Um But it's a very helpful tool that helps

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  um caregivers nowhere

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  um

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  where their individual stands in their social skills.

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  And then these are the articles that I used for my assignment.

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  Um For the most part I was like I mentioned before I was able to find

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  S. S. P. Being used with individual have schizophrenia bipolar

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  disorder and I found one that was used with adults who have autism.

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  But

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  yeah this is my assignment. Thank you