Resumen

OLIVARES-OLIVARES, P. J.; ROSA-ALCAZAR, A. I.  y  OLIVARES-RODRIGUEZ, J.. Social Validity of Adolescent Intervention in Social Phobia: Parents vs. Teachers. Ter Psicol [online]. 2007, vol.25, n.1, pp.63-71. ISSN 0718-4808.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-48082007000100005.

The results of a research conducted with adolescents who suffer generalized phobia at a community setting, are presented. The main objective was to analyze if the data from different informants (adolescents, their parents, and teachers) obtained with a scale designed for this purpose (SAS-A complete, SAS-A parents, and SAS-A teachers) were consistent in the improvement perception, in function of the kind of treatment received; aiming at analyzing the social validity of the changes. The 59 participants who were selected had between 14 and 17 years of age (67.8% girls), and were randomly assigned to three experimental conditions: structured behavioral treatment (cognitive-behavioral), transmission of information regarding general anxiety disorders and social phobia in particular, and a control group which remained in waiting list. The results showed that adolescents in the structured behavioral treatment had a better evolution in all the psychological variables that were assessed, and that the changes were perceived by their parents and teachers, being the concordance between the later and the former higher than each of them with the adolescents

Palabras clave : Social phobia; adolescents; social validation; parents; teachers.