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Identifying and Assessing Community-based Social Behavior of Adolescents and Young Adults with EBD

Michael Bullis is a research professor and associate director of the Teaching Research Division of Western Oregon State College. He earned a PhD in special education and rehabilitation from the University of Oregon in 1983. His research interests include social skill assessment and training, vocational and transition programs for adolescents and young adults with emotional and behavioral disorders, and longitudinal research methods. Address: Dr. Michael Bullis, Teaching Research Division, Western Oregon State College, Monmouth, OR 97361.

Bruce Bull

Bruce Bull is an assistant research professor at the Teaching Research Division. He received an MS in special education from Western Oregon State College in 1985. His research interest include computer applications in special education and survey research methods.

Pattie Johnson

Pattie Johnson is an instructor at the Teaching Research Division. She received a BS in psychology from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 1976. Her research interests include computerized data collection procedures.

Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson is the computer analyst for the Teaching Research Division. He earned an MS in experimental psychology from Pacific University in 1974. His research interests include survey research methods and statistical analysis of large data sets.

Adolescents and young adults (ages 15 to 25) with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) experience difficulties living in society in large part because of social skill deficits in interacting with peers and adults. Our research first identified and described community-based social behaviors for persons with EBD by following the behavioral analytic model, then used this information to develop measures of these behaviors. Three measures were developed: male and female forms of the Test of Community-based Social Skill Knowledge (TCSK), the Scale of Community-based Social Skill Performance (CBSP), and Behaviors That Are Undesirable for Living and Leisure in Society (BULLIS). In the TCSK, the young person is presented with a number of social interactions between peers or adults and four alternative responses of varying effectiveness to each interaction. The young person then states which alternative is most like what he or she would do if involved in such a situation. The CBSP is a behavior-rating scale completed by a person knowledgeable about the individual's social skill performance in community placements. The BULLIS is a self-report measure of antisocial behaviors that is administered individually. The measures were field-tested, and psychometric analyses were conducted. These results generally were acceptable, demonstrating adequate reliabilities and discriminant power to differentiate between persons with and without EBD.

Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 2, No. 3, 173-188 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/106342669400200305


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