The Development of the Social/Life-Skills Training Movement

George M. Gazda; David K. Brooks

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David K. Brooks Author

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The social/life-skills training movement is the product of many disciplines and individuals. It is difficult to determine exactly when the
movement began to coalesce, but Larson (1984) cites Hobbs' hailing mental health's third revolution 20 years ago as a potential beginning point. Here a shift was detectable moving from "clinical to public health and educational models, from exclusively professional to nontraditional helper populations, and from remedial to preventive strategies of intervention" (Larson, 1984, p. 1). Adkins (1974) refers to Dewey's Progressive Education movement of the 1930s and 1940s as laying some of the foundation for the relevancy of a problem-centered curriculum in which content was related to life events. George Miller (1969) introduced the concept of "giving psychology away" through teaching the principles and skills of psychology to the general public. At the same time the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development published a yearbook entitled Life Skills in School and Society (Rubin, 1969) in which the direct teaching of life skills through a curricular approach was proposed.

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