TY - JOUR T1 - Effectiveness of Social skills training on decreasing the likelihood of Tehran Pre- university school girls’ addiction TT - اثربخشی آموزش مهارت‌های اجتماعی بر کاهش اعتیادپذیری در دانش‌آموزان دختر مقطع پیش دانشگاهی شهر تهران JF - Yafteh JO - Yafteh VL - 12 IS - 3 UR - http://yafte.lums.ac.ir/article-1-320-en.html Y1 - 2011 SP - 31 EP - 36 KW - Social skills KW - Effectiveness KW - Addiction KW - School girls N2 - The age structure of population in our country has been exposed priority to preventive strategy to narcotic substances. The purpose of present research is to survey the effectiveness of social skills training on decreasing the likelihood of school girls’ addiction in pre-university schools of Tehran city. Materials and Methods:For collecting research data related to effectiveness of social skills training on addiction decrease among school girls, in pretest stage, 300 girls were selected by random simple sampling method in Tehran city. Then in post-test stage in each one of the control and experimental groups, 15 students attended in order to gather information from independent T-test to determie significance of difference between means and F-test to compare scores. Results: Analysis of data showed significant difference between the results of the two tests in both groups of control and experimental and also showed that social skills training can cause decrease in the likelihood of school girls’ addiction, preparation to addiction, and decrease in the youth’s confession to it . Discussion: Social skill training courses to campaign against youth's inclination to narcotic drugs must fulfill the requirements set by referent groups such as consultants, school teachers, and social planners. In addition, this method can be used as a contrastive approach for cooperative learning in youth education M3 ER -