The enhancement of positive self-concept has been identified as a key benefit of participation in team-building programs. This paper reviews research on the impact of team-building activities that include demanding physical challenges on the self-concept of physical education students. Team Building through Physical Challenges (TBPC) is a program…

The social and collective aspect in human activities has become one of the main issues in Vygotskian analyses of learning and development. The study assumed that this aspect presupposes some feeling of belonging together and having a shared commitment on the part of the participants. Asserting that relatively little attention has been given to…

Adventure programming is the deliberate use of adventurous experiences to create learning in individuals or groups, often with the goal of improving society or communities. Adventure programming may focus on recreation, education, individual or group development, or therapy, or on a combination of these. This second edition contains 61 chapters by…

A developmental training sequence using a variety of roleplaying techniques is presented here as a guiding structure for short-term relationship training. Trainer considerations are discussed. (Author)

Discusses: (1) group success factors; (2) mutuality of problems; (3) compatibility of members; (4) size; (5) age range; (6) sex composition; (7) length of sessions; (8) duration of group; (9) physical setting; and (10) qualifications of leaders. (EK)

This article describes the innovative, short term approach of multiple family group counseling in which the counseling applies the principles and dynamics found in family and group counseling to the treatment of the student and his family. Several family units met together to discuss the problems that adversely affect the adolescent and result in…

Study supported by grants from The National Institute of Mental Health (4 F1 MH-23, 327-02;1 RO3 MH 13029-01) and The National Science Foundation (GS-790).