This is a comprehensive training handbook for the Group Analytical Planning (GAP) program, a 12-hour program that trains individuals and groups in the skills of group leadership through the process of action-oriented planning. The handbook describes the step-by-step process that groups should follow in order to effectively achieve planned change.…

The authors describe a drug prevention program for preadolescent children. The program tends to achieve its aims through the use of small group work and positive peer influence, development of positive self-concept and problem solving. Evaluation shows that it is influential in changing student characteristics. (SE)

Summarily discusses the norms of group formation and behavior developed by third, fourth and fifth graders at a racially integrated elementary school during their lunch recesses, and suggests that Kid Society effectively minimized real fighting, which tended to occur in the presence of adults. The Kid Society was a mostly integrated, comfortable,…

An emphasis on learning to make positive comments on their peers' papers improved students' writing.

Individuals and groups who deal with others are constantly engaged in working out strategies, or choosing and reassessing their objectives and planning effective ways of achieving them. Presents a framework for understanding the conditions that give rise to strategic relationships and discusses five variables that influence their formation.…

Concepts and suggestions are offered to deaf adolescents for achieving independent living or social independence. (BD)

A high school anthropology teacher guided students in creating a new culture with distinct elements of social control, economy, decision making, family, religion, space, time, status, language, tension outlets, rituals, symbols, property, idealogy, and manners. The activity included a field trip lasting several days during which the class lived…

Three questions were investigated: stability of children's sociometric status over periods of 1 to 11 months in a treatment cottage; extent of consensus regarding most liked and disliked child; and relationship of general negative behavior level in the cottage and consensus. There were 17 boys who answered sociometric questions monthly. (Author)

This study of seating patterns in a middle school shows that race is an extremely important grouping criterion even for children who have chosen to attend a desegregated school. Sex was found to be an even stronger grouping criterion. (Author/AM)

The author presents a synthesized typology of leader behavior. The behavior typology is built on the dimensions of task orientation, relationship orientation, and leader effectiveness. There are eight resulting leader types: more effective-high relationship orientation-high task orientation to less effective-low relationship orientation-low task…

It was hypothesized that interpersonal stress is associated with discrepancies between individuals' evaluations of themselves, their perceptions of others' evaluations of them, and others' actual evaluations of them. Rating-scale measures of these variables were administered at several points in human relations training groups. Findings supported…

The study focused on the effect of an experienced group leader on subrole behavior of eighth-grade students (N=26) participating in group counseling sessions. Results indicated skilled leaders maintain group focus as evidenced by larger number of growth subrole behaviors and fewer incidences of nongrowth subrole behavior in leader-led groups.…

Non-task-oriented activities that take place in a therapy group are conceived of as processes geared towards establishing and reassuring safety. The authors take an existentialist Langian approach to safety and discuss the notion that necessarily unresolved perceptions of ontological insecurity act upon members as individuals and as a group. (NG)

This paper uses the Interpersonal Perception Method (IPM) to analyze a single episode in a group's experience. The authors feel that such an approach is much more useful than the more usual trait analysis in understanding those experiences which will mediate the group's functioning. (NG)