Social Skills Training(SST)に関する作業療法士の研究の動向—日本作業療法学会誌にみる10年

A critical review of social skills training in the recent ten years' society journals of occupational therapy

要旨：わが国において，SSTはごく簡単な生活指導にも名称が用いられるなど，認知行動療法に基づく理解の浅さが指摘されてきた．本論は，作業療法士が初めてSSTを治療として導入して10年になるが，その間，作業療法士が治療場面でどのように実践してきたか，学会誌の報告を振り返り検証するとともに，今後の研究の動向を探ってみた．

　SSTに関する論文は，当初は，名称，概念，および技法に関する理解の全般に曖昧さが見られたが，最近の5年間でこれらは急速に明確になり，報告も急増している．その内容は，導入の時期から本格的な展開の時期へと移行段階を迎えている．同時に，今後に向けた課題が多く浮き彫りにされている．

　Social skills training (SST) is not well understood as cognitive behavior therapy in Japan, as evidenced by the fact that the term is used even for very simple daily life guidance. This paper reviews SST coverage in academic journals and investigates SST as assessed by occupational therapists, based on the definitions of Meuser and Anzai et al. The direction of future studies is also investigated in the light of the progress of the last ten years.

　While the name, concept and technique of SST used not to be well understood in related papers, they have become clearer over the past five years. This lack of understanding is thought to have been caused by the understanding of definitions of social skills other than SST. Most of the papers on SST have been published over the past five years, and the contents are moving from a preliminary stage to a stage of full-scale development. However, many issues were thought to remain for future studies.