Proposes a group training approach for teaching child management skills to parents. Describes the course's focus on parent and child behavior, outlines the physical, verbal, cognitive, and performance skills that a parent participant would acquire, and discusses its emphasis on creating parent-child relationships that are full of empathy and…

Describes a step-by-step procedure for undertaking role play in interpersonal skills training which uses trainerless groups of three to reduce threat and make giving and receiving of personal feedback easier. Briefs used by role plays (consultant, client, observer), setting up triads, undertaking role plays, and additional ground rules are noted.…

Information is given to help program planners develop strategies for community sports programs for disabled individuals. Suggestions on funding, participant identification, training procedures, transportation, and mainstreaming are discussed. (DF)

The sport psychologist deals with the athlete and coach independently and collectively. General guidelines used by the sport psychologist in developing and applying a program of psychological training are examined. (DF)

Reviews existing literature relevant to cognitive issues in training. Discusses the effects of various cognitive attributes, examines the impact of various cognitive training strategies on trainee performance, and addresses methodological issues that have served to limit research activity. (LLL)

A series of three experiments was conducted with three severely retarded children to investigate the vocalization-producing potential of two antecedent conditions: adult talk (commonly cited antecedent) and adult silence. (Author/CL)

Assessed the adequacy of reporting the use of observers in counseling research. Each sampled article was classified according to the use made of the observer, the type and length of training given the observer, and the assessments made of the observers' reliability and validity. (Author/JAC)

Compared the Communication Skills Workshop (CSW) and the Couples Communication Program (CCP) and a control group on measures of communication effectiveness, problem solving, and relationship satisfaction. Results indicated that couples completing the CCP training revealed significant increases in nonverbal positive messages. (JAC)

Significant evaluation findings for a respite care program include the following: (1) training sessions enhanced workers' knowledge of disabilities, (2) families with recently disabled children received more benefits from respite services than families with long-term disabled children, (3) services provided parents emotional relief, and (4)…

Describes the training program for hospital personnel at Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK. Emphasizes the importance of improving the communication skills of health care employees. (PD)

An Interaction Management training program consists of five to ten skill modules selected on the basis of a training needs survey to meet the needs of the participating first- and second-level supervisors. (Author)

This paper considers the origins of kindness in relation to the martial art known as Aikido. It also attempts to discover the underlying constitutional elements of Aikido's pedagogy of self learning, learning about others, and instructional practices that promote interpersonal relatedness. A teacher and four students of the Aikido Dojo were…

This is the second of two articles on Modern Management Dynamics. The purpose of this program and the developmental research done on it was to evolve a method of determining how much a trainee learns from a training program and how the trainer can improve his program through pre-test and post-evaluation. (DS)

Examined and evaluated are remedial approaches to children's educational handicaps which are based on three conceptions that identify process dysfunction, adverse life experience, and experience deficits as causes. (Author/MC)