Disadvantaged job-ready clients who were trained for effective job interviews showed significant improvement over control subjects in areas of responsiveness, honesty, and self-confidence. (Author)

Provides tips for school officials attempting to build successful public relations programs and to establish rapport with news reporters. (JH)

The thesis is presented that manpower programs are a third major approach to the socialization of the young in a capital-intensive society--after the family and school systems. (Author)

Changing culture requires interventions invalidating old processes and conditions that facilitate the creation of new self validating processes. The personal growth laboratory becomes a temporary system of new self validating processes. Prepared for a conference on Intensive Small Group Process sponsored by Foundations Fund for Research in…

White teachers (n equals 14) and black parents (n equals 10) received systematic training in interpersonal skills from a black trainer and a white trainer in counterbalanced order. Significant gains were demonstrated in communication and discriminaiton on standard helpee stimulus expressions and standard racialproblems and in functioning the…

Presents a useful psychological model of managerial behavior using the concepts of Gestalt psychology. (AN)

A suggestion that schools today are generally characterized by an inadequate formal social structure which does not allow each individual... enough choice of relevant social roles" and some ideas on how to correct this situation. (Author/AK)

The article discusses team development as an effort, and as an intervention method in resolving intra-group problems for more effective functioning". (Author/AN)

The major finding in this investigation indicates the need for social approval is positively related to self-ratings of sheltered workshop performance by clients. In addition supervisors ratings of clients were found to be positively correlated with both objective work performance and client self ratings. (Author/CG)

The author contends that the capacity to be seductive can be utilized in constructive ways to enhance a loving relationship, or in neurotic ways to oversome doubts about one's capabilities. (Author)

In order for a child to develop into a fully functioning person, his positive assets must be recognized and strengthened. A concentration on the elimination of faults and weaknesses has a debilitating effect. (CK)