Describes a general approach to the analysis of teaching in small-group contexts; guidelines are presented in a check list. (Author)

Paper presents a course design which attempts to effect a meaningful integration of both concepts and experience and to deal with some of the problems and issues of doing laboratory training in the university setting. (Author)

A community-based group counseling program for offenders in St. Paul, Minnesota, has had promising results--both in rehabilitation and crime prevention. (Author)

Treatment of married couples in groups by one therapist is described. Emphasis is placed on the fact that treatment problems and process in such groups are quite different from therapy groups in which the participants are not related outside the group and on the need to differentiate between couples' groups according to social and chronological…

Systematic methods are needed for studying group development over time. The method described here permits interpretive description of a group session, useful both for feedback to the group and for further study of group processes. (Author)

The physical arrangement of groups and sub-groups can have a direct bearing on the effectiveness of a case study. (Editor)

Discusses five areas of concern related to utilization of group experiences: (1) insufficient training of group leaders, (2) possibility of groups becoming mystic cults, (3) equating of therapeutic gain with expressing of negative feeling, (4) lack of awareness that group change may result from pressure to conform, (5) possible harmful…

As humans solve their basic physiological and security needs, they must move toward the consistent satisfaction of social and interpersonal needs. Training programs in interpersonal skills, built into the educational system, would enable people to become competent at initiating and maintaining growth enhancing relationships. (Author/JB)

Describes a way in which the counselor worked successfully with a group of troublemakers" bent on changing their image around the school. Activities are presented in some detail. (Author)

Enthnocentrism theory, at the level of groups, offers hypotheses about attitudes and stereotypes which are coincident with interaction among small clusters of contiguous tribes or nations." The Inter-Nation Simulation model, designed to represent the environment in which national decision-makers function, was used. (SE)