Advocates of social skills training maintain that delinquent youths do not have the skills necessary to obtain their goals through legitimate means and therefore resort to inappropriate or illegal methods. Research studies suggest that court-adjudicated adolescents do encounter many potentially difficult social situations and are deficient in social skills compared to nondelinquent youths. Persons who develop curricula for social skills programs must consider content, methodology, and practicality concerns. This project decided to use a general skills approach tied to specific problem areas, teaching essential cues and circumstances that surround interactions, specific behavioral steps in the response, and overall organizational and meshing skills necessary for the interaction to flow smoothly. An integrative training format tried to ensure that adolescents would use these skills in everyday living by discussing rationales for the behavior, providing a wide variety of example situations and role playing, and requiring practice outside the classroom. Finally, a skills training program useful to practitioners must be efficient, easy to use, and flexible. The program that was based on these principles teaches eight social skills in weekly group sessions lasting 1.5 to 2 hours and has been used by probation officers, social workers, diversion program counselors, and group home workers. An evaluation of two training groups showed that 83 percent of the juveniles in the skills training program were offense-free in 1 year compared to 61 percent in the comparison group. The paper discusses areas for future research and includes 31 references.