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…

Suggestions for effective group communications are made briefly for the hearing impaired member of the group, the group leader, and the hearing members of the group. (CB)

Therapist-led, leaderless, and alternating sequence sessions were compared. Leaderless sessions exhibited more socially oriented behavior than the therapist-led, while the therapist-led meetings were considered more speculative and confrontive, more concerned with group relationships, and more pertinent and task-oriented than the leaderless…

This article describes a project initiated by the authors to provide 1) a practical basis for helping students understand characteristics and capabilities of groups and 2) an activity to promote group unity within the class. (Authors)

This brief article contains classified listings, without annotations, arranged according to: the consumer; groups and their procedures; and general information on group work. (CJ)

The author contends that not all groups allow for the freedom of the individual within the group. Attitudes of acceptance, permissiveness, warmth, friendliness, and objectivity should prevail within the group, and while not overlooking a particular member's individuality, one must allWw for3th&&ifferences that may accompany this individuality.…

This article describes a structured game which: (1) created four competitive teams; (2) provided prompt feedback to teams; (3) set up simulated organizational groups within game structure (college placement offices and federal personnel departments); (4) role played campus interviews; (5) introduced realistic crisis situations; and (6) projected…

The Soviet and the American approaches to child rearing are contrasted, with emphasis on development of our national goals and priorities. (NH)

Group reinforcement procedures were effective in increasing on-task and rule-following behavior of a third-grade class of 52 students that included four behavior problem students referred to special education. Intervention included the teachers setting a class goal and the class selecting a group activity for meeting the goal. (CL)

The Levels of Verbal Intimacy Technique (LOVIT) was developed as an observational system to document verbal interaction in groups. Although rating-scale data produced information confirming order and interval spacing of six categories derived from theoretical assumptions about developmental processes in T-groups, more investigation is needed about…