That's what's in store for youth at the Kansas Boys Industrial School, thanks to an innovative residential treatment program. (Editor)

The Personal Growth Encountertapes are a program of interpersonal exercises for groups of eight to 10 persons. Instructions are presented on a set of audio-tape recordings, one for each of the 10 sessions. (Author)

This paper describes a program of activity group therapy (utilizing child care workers as co-therapists) in two residential treatment centers. Activity group therapy was used to extend the child care worker's influence, to provide him with interactional opportunities in a different relationship system and to further his training in the group. (MS)

Based on material received from 20 sources (individuals and associations) and on his own opinions and those of his graduate student co-workers, the author compiled a list of suggestions for revision of those parts of the American Personnel and Guidance Association Code of Ethics relating to group work. The recommendations included in the article…

Discusses Alcoholism as an illness in light of Alcoholics Anonymous' milieu therapy oriented program. (Editor)

When their child is diagnosed with leukemia, parents begin a process of anticipatory mourning. Group meetings with other such parents provide help in living through the process. (Author)

This paper is an attempt to show the difference in the course of treatment of two successive groups of university students which functioned significantly differently in the manner and degree to which they examined defenses and manifested transference problems. (Author)

An experiment to test an encounter group assumption that touching increases interpersonal attraction was conducted. College women were randomly assigned to a touch or no-touch condition. A comparison of total evaluation scores verified the hypothesis: subjects who touched the accomplice perceived her as a more attractive person than those who did…

Therapeutic techniques based on guided group interaction are being used widely in Kentucky institutions in the treatment of juvenile delinquents. The peer group plays a key role as the catalyst for change. (Author)

Describes the unexpected revelations, conflict, despair and joy, spontaneous love-feasts, and sudden enthusiasms that happen at weekend encounter centers around the country--all under the mantle of science. (RJ)

Results clearly supported the hypothesis that adolescents who are typically nonverbal, and considered poor candidates for verbal-type psychotherapy, can be shaped into emitting a substantially higher rate of verbal initiations. (Author)

Paper presented at the Brazilian Meeting on Child Neuropsychiatry (1st, Guaruja, Sao Paulo, August, 1968). (JM)

Presented are the agency's philosophical orientation and a detailed description of the program. In essence, the group is used as a means of enhancing personal competence in coping with the problems of the parent child relationship. (Author)

Briefly explores pro's and con's of extra group contacts, and suggests modification of traditionally opposed view because: (1) in a small college setting, chances of accidental outside meetings are great; and (2) such contacts provide opportunity to use newly learned behaviors with people who will provide honest and interested feedback. (CJ)