EFFECTIVENESS OF AGGRESSION REPLACEMENT TRAINING IN DEVELOPING SOCIAL SKILLS OF OLDER SCHOOL PUPILS
EFFECTIVENESS OF AGGRESSION REPLACEMENT TRAINING IN DEVELOPING SOCIAL SKILLS OF OLDER SCHOOL PUPILS

Summary/Abstract: Introduction: Aggression replacement training (ART) is a multimodal psychoeducational in-tervention designed to change aggressive behaviour. The skills acquired during training providealternative ways of behaving pro-socially. Social competences determine the effectiveness ofcoping with specific types of social situations and also contribute to building appropriate re-lationships. Many educational programs that turn out to be exceptionally effective today aredirectly or indirectly related to social competences.Research Aim: The aim of this text is to find out the effectiveness of ART in developing socialskills of older primary school pupils.Method: In this study, a pedagogical experiment was used as the research method.Results: A significant increase in the social skills of pupils participating in the training wasindicated. A difference was noticed in the way of understanding and recognising anger controlsequences. During the moral reasoning session, the participants experienced looking at theproblem from the perspective of different people.Conclusions: The obtained results prove that ART effectively contributes to the increase insocial competences. Among people who completed the entire cycle of ART, improvement inbehavioural results was noted in all three components of the Training: social skills, anger con-trol and moral reasoning.

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