Social skills are unique in that excessive rates of responding may be just as socially
undesirable as deficient responding. Furthermore, most social skills training programs utilize
group formats such that one intervention (eg, differential reinforcement) is applied
universally to children with varied behavioral repertoires. Following exposure to continuous
schedules of reinforcement for pro-social behaviors, we observed excessive levels of peer-
directed compliments and physical contact. Thus, we evaluated the effectiveness of a full …