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Self-Actualizing: Myth or Reality?
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Butler, Robert R. – Group and Organization Studies, 1977
The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) was used to assess the impact of a semester-long encounter-group, personal-growth experience on students seeking degrees in counseling. Both the experimental and control groups showed gains in self-actualization. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Counselor Training, Group Experience, Individual Development
Growth Groups and the Personal Orientation Inventory
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Ritter, Kathleen Y. – Group and Organization Studies, 1977
The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) is frequently used to measure changes that have occurred in participants as a result of an encounter- or growth-group experience. The pseudo-self-actualizing tendency of counseling students is explored, and rationale is presented as to why the POI should be used with other instruments. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Counselor Training, Group Counseling, Group Experience
Effects of a Nine-Week Structured and Unstructured Group Experience on Measures of Self-Concept and Self-Actualization
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Ware, J. Roger; Barr, Joseph E. – Small Group Behavior, 1977
Investigates the amount of structure furnished by the leader in the group experience over a nine-week period and its effects on measures of self-concept and self-actualization. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Counseling Effectiveness, Group Counseling, Group Therapy