The interaction between leaders and members in a year-long family therapy seminar is systematically compared to the process that unfolds between therapist and family during the course of family therapy. The dynamic elements of each stage of development are analyzed and factors affecting their development are identified. (Author)

Family treatment can be staged in a way that permits the family to deal with their anxiety about treatment and plan changes in the problem solving mechanism of the family system. (Author)

If the counselor does nothing to relieve the anxiety engendered by hostile interchanges, the family may view him as just one more discordant element in their unhappy system and leave him very quickly. (Author)

Family therapists (N=60) were surveyed in an investigation of resistance by family members to family therapy. The father was viewed as the most resistant along a number of dimensions. Therapist behaviors that related to difficulties with the father, specifically, and to family therapy generally, were identified. (Author)

A role analysis chart, developed to measure group processes interactions, is adapted for use in training sessions on the conduct of effective meetings. (MF)

Describes a developmental affective education program implemented in two integrated classrooms (at the fifth and eighth grade level). The program consists of ten 45-minute sessions and is designed to help students cope with feelings and explore values related to racial issues. (Author)

Worker and caller behaviors are studied and compared in sample of 100 suicide calls to three crisis intervention centers. Verbal behaviors of workers and callers are substantially different, leading to the conclusion that crisis intervention is dissimilarly practiced between centers but similar within them. (Author)

Examines whether the FIRO-BC scales of inclusion, control, and affection distinguish between students identified as stars and isolates through a sociometric instrument completed by their peers. Results indicate it did. (Author)

This article labels some types of general group silence in group counseling and offers some techniques which have been found useful in dealing with these silences. (Author)

The authors describe and illustrate a procedure through which the effectiveness and efficiency of intervention can be measured objectively by the practitioner. (Author)

This article reviews literature and experimental research that has illuminated and developed the idea of teamwork. The implication of this research for team practice is that the team can deal more effectively with complex problems and that group interaction offers something in addition to pooled responses. (Author)

Photographs were taken of a male and a female in two eye positions: looking straight into the camera and looking downward. Job interviewers (N=44) in an employment agency were randomly assigned to one of the four photographs. Findings indicate eye contact is a determinant of the decision to hire. (Author)

How a principal operates and functions as the leader of a school is based on complex interactions. What these are and how they affect the principal are described. Concludes that principals will continue to have major roles in tomorrow's schools. (Editor/RK)

Investigates the interaction between a model's head turn and an observer's perception of being looked at, as a function of the model's visible eye. (Author/RK)

Interventions of family therapy trainees (N=19) with a videotaped simulated family and with families they were treating were coded. Evidence suggests the frequency with which family therapists trained in the dynamic interactional approach use interpretation might predict their success with families otherwise likely to terminate treatment…