Peer Social Initiations and the Modification of Social Withdrawal: A Review and Future Perspective

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Abstract
In the initial portions of this paper the adult-mediated intervention studies that led to the development of the peer social initiation strategy are described. Notable findings from these adult-mediated studies include (a) that the immediate temporal consequence of reinforcement delivery was a termination of child-child interaction; (b) that no intervention procedure studied resulted in spontaneous maintenance and generalization effects, and (c) that maintenance and generalization programming required elaborate procedures that are not logically feasible in most settings. Then the available literature on the peer social initiation tactic is summarized. Particular attention is paid to the need for training peer helpers and the relationship between subjects' behavioral repertoires and the magnitude of immediate and long-term behavior change. Finally, several recommendations are offered for future research on the effects of participating in a study on peer helpers, and programming for sustained behavior change.

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