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Peer reviewedAnderson, Wayne P.; Otto, Randall L. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1984
Presents a structured group design for developing group activities to meet the needs of disabled populations. Describes an assertiveness training group for 12 college students in wheelchairs, which dealt with relationships with attendants and able-bodied persons as well as building support groups. (JAC)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, College Students, Group Counseling, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSandmeyer, Louise E.; And Others – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1979
This program extends the availability of assertiveness training to students through the use of paraprofessionals as group leaders. This article describes a format for developing a peer assertiveness-training program and is based on the authors' experience conducting this program during the 1977-78 academic year at Pennsylvania State University.…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, College Students, Higher Education, Paraprofessional Personnel
Peer reviewedRose, Sheldon D. – Social Work, 1975
Describes an inexpensive program that has demonstrated success in increasing social skills. A student project in a school of social work brought about changes both in attitude and behavior in widely diverse groups. (Author)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Change, College Students, Daily Living Skills
Schindler, Fred – 1979
The effectiveness of a self help book on assertiveness training was assessed by comparing two bibliotherapy conditions with group therapy and a waiting list control condition. One group of bibliotherapy subjects read a popular paperback with no therapist contact, while the other group additionally participated in informal discussion sessions.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Bibliotherapy
Download full textGalassi, John P., Ed. – 1973
Several authors describe group counseling programs provided by a university counseling center to meet student needs for developing interpersonal communication skills and self-assertion behavior. In response to these needs, the counseling center provided personal growth groups, a proactive black group, a women's group, a marriage growth group, and…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Black Students, College Students, Counseling Services
Weishaar, Marjorie; Sandmeyer, Louise – Journal of the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, 1983
Presents a group counseling model designed to help women in male-dominated college majors prepare for problems which may arise as the result of their nontraditional career choices. The five sessions dealt with school to work transition, assertiveness, support networks, multiple role management, and adjusting to minority status. (JAC)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, College Students, Females, Group Counseling
Evaluation and Training Inst., Los Angeles, CA. – 1991
This Vocational Education Resource Package (VERP) was developed to provide materials useful in replicating an exemplary vocational education program for special student populations in the California Community Colleges. This VERP describes Bakersfield College's Single Parent Adults Choosing Education (SPACE) II program, (an expansion of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Assertiveness, Basic Skills
