Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse experiences of a health promotion intervention implemented by the Therapeutic and Educational Unit at Villabona prison in Spain, which aimed to create drug-free spaces as part of a model of social rehabilitation. Design: As part of a larger participatory evaluation study concerning the efficacy of…

Interpersonal variables such as sex, age, and race have been shown to influence research, interviewing, school, and therapy interactions. The practitioner should be aware of this influence, both in his own work and in his work with other people. (Author)

The present study lends strikingly strong support to the assertion that both eye contact and physical distance are sufficiently stable that one can meaningfully characterize people on these interpersonally significant behaviors. (Author)

College males were interviewed about how college had altered their friendships, values, and plans. The interviewers diclosed experiences and feelings similar to those revealed by the students. Results support Byrne's Law of Similarity in generating interpersonal attraction in the interview and suggest that the timing of self-disclosures is…

THE CRAIG HOUSE FOR CHILDREN HELPS FAMILIES UNDERSTAND AND REACH DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR PROBLEMS AND THEIR LIFE SITUATIONS. TO HELP WITH THIS TASK, THIS STUDY SOUGHT TO DISCOVER WHICH UNITS OF THE FAMILY GIVE THE MOST INFORMATION IN INTERVIEWS ABOUT THE DYNAMICS OF THE FAMILY IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE PROBLEM OF THE REFERRED CHILD. IN THE FIRST YEAR…

The findings support the notion that seating distance, as one channel of nonverbal communication, can affect the interviewer-patient relationship. (Author)

This study measured the interpersonal needs of the counselor and counselee using the FIRO-B Scale to determine their effect on the subject's reaction to a counseling interview. Each counselor and counselee met with a compatible and an incompatible subject within the counterbalanced research designed. The general hypothesis for the study was that…