This article looks at several informal groups on one campus engaged in self directed group therapy. While continued use of the NTL model of group dynamics is favored, in structured settings, efforts must be pushed to educate students and staff regarding possible harm from the informal action groups. Presented at American College Health…

Describes author's role and the means used by the author to provide a maximum educational experience for students, parents, and teachers. (DM)

Both parents and children were pretested and posttested with the following results: (1) the training group demonstrated gains in communication and discrimination; and (2) while the training-group parents perceived themselves as improving in interpersonal skills, they did not generalize gains to play situations with their children. (Author)

Study categorizing 72 subjects as good or poor judges on basis of discrepancies between predicted ratings on each of six California Psychological Inventory scales, and ratings from actual test scores indicate that good juges are well adjusted, tolerant, and self confident. (Author/CJ)

The first of a series of special lectures on scientific subjects being prepared for World Health Assemblies. Reprinted from "WHO Chronicle v23 n11. Also presented in July 1969 at the 22nd World Health Assembly in Boston. (SW)

Lecture delivered at the November 2, 1968 meeting of the Association of Independent Maryland Schools.

Assessed the relationship between self-disclosure and perceived closeness in two training groups of counseling students (N=20) in order to describe the development of group process. Findings indicated increases in amount and quality of self-disclosure and decreases in perceived interpersonal distance, supporting participant development in a small…

The speech/language pathologist's role in planning and executing a program for autistic children that emphasizes the development of communication and interaction skills is addressed. Journal Availability: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 10801 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. (SEW)

Assessed the efficacy of a training program to train lay volunteers to lead a Premarital Relationship Enhancement program. Assessments of couples trained by the leader-trainees showed significant pre- to posttesting gains in their self-assessed skill levels and confidence. Premarital couples and experts rated the leader-trainees very highly.…

Discusses the need for better integration of theory and measurement in the design and evaluation of marital communication skills training programs. Recommendations are presented for the use of self-report measures of marital communication and the evaluation of the family theory used in program design. (Author/JAC)

The social skills of 119 learning disabled (LD) high school students was compared to that of 60 nonhandicapped adolescents and 57 court adjudicated juvenile delinquent adolescents, The non-LD youths performed significantly better than the other two groups of youths on seven of the eight skills. (Author/SEW)

Results suggested that LD adolescents do not automatically generalize recently learned social skills to novel role playing situations and the natural environment. Also, high performance in a novel role playing situation does not necessarily mean that a student will show a correspondingly high performance in the natural environment. (Author/SEW)

The conscious use of descriptive and prescriptive social work theory to promote recognition of and sensitivity to ethnic diversity in social work encounters is advocated. A method for increasing such theoretical skills in first-year graduate students are discussed. (MSE)