The purpose of the described assertion-training workshop was to give participants some knowledge of the process and content of the job interview and assertive verbal and nonverbal interview behavior. (Author)

Describes how a workshop for career women (N=20) faced with a conflict over the motherhood decision was designed, conducted, and evaluated. Review of data suggested that the workshop increased awareness of positive and negative aspects of both choice alternatives, providing a realistic and informed vantage point for decision making. (LLL)

Project ASPIRE was designed to increase educators' awareness of sexual prejudice. Training activities focused on self-awareness, effects of sex-role stereotyping on students, procedures to assess biases in instructional and counseling practices and materials, and methods to reduce sex-role stereotyping within the school setting. (Author)

Describes the development and implementation of structured group programs concerning men's roles. Provides an outline of a workshop and reviews three examples of structured programing designed to help men become aware of their sex-role socialization and learn a new definition of manhood. (LLL)

Describes a career counseling workshop for Black women featuring the model-mentor process. Overall reaction to the workshop was positive and suggested the workshop could serve as an alternative career intervention for Black women in predominantly White universities. (JAC)

Describes a workshop on burnout especially designed for telephone counselors. Workshops help counselors explore the personal, professional, and organizational factors that are important in understanding and coping with this burnout. (Author/RC)

Provides a brief overview of the rationale of death-oriented seminars, and summary description of a typical death education class including specific interventions, activities, and resources. (JAC)

The authors describe their assertive training workshops and seminars which they began as directors of Applied Potential, a counseling service for women. Assertive training is presented as a confidence-building technique for adult clients. (Author/HLM)

This article shares the authors' adaptation of the microcounseling paradigm so that it is useful with different groups. The authors also illustrate how a new role for the professional counselor--that of a teacher of helping skills--is rapidly evolving. (Author/EJT)

This article describes a workshop designed to dispel the myth of learned helplessness and facilitate people's reintegrating their previously denied power. The approaches used to help students deal with depression are described in detail. (EJT)

A life planning Workshop is described in terms of four basic questions, i.e., where am I, what am I, what do I want to be, and how do I get there. (Author)

The model presented in this article is intended to assist correctional counselors and others in facilitating communication among prison guards of a different race from inmates and, further, to illustrate how to train guards in the fundamentals of developing a helping relationship with inmates. (Author)

Describes a three stage sexual enhancement workshop for adults aged 18-20. The sensitization stage involves sessions on sex and society, stereotypes and the sex response cycle. Desensitization involves group discussion and films related to various sexual expressions. Resensitization emphasizes sexual communication. (RC)

Describes a contracting workshop for couples which is designed to strengthen their relationship. The counselor helps the couple make explicit and implicit agreements and rules by which the relationship operates. Through experiential exercises, minilectures, and group work, the couple's style of communication and decision making skills are…

Describes a short-term workshop designed to assist young dual career couples in developing effective personal and couple-based lifestyle coping strategies. Discusses coping elements and strategies, characteristics of dual career couples, workshop goals and format, workshop implementation, and workshop experiences (areas of concentration). (WAS)