Realizing that facilitative qualities on the part of the counselor are definitely related to successful therapeutic outcome, this article concentrates on structural procedures for systematic training in these facilitative qualities. (Author/HMV)

Work supported in part by Public Health Service Grant 5tl MH-10276 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Six workshop plans that can engage the audience in a school system while communicating knowledge about evaluation, evaluation methodology, or evaluation findings are presented. Recognition of user characteristics is the key to these workshop designs. The designs are labelled "script,""forcast,""simulated…

The manual provides a curriculum for training volunteers in state protection and advocacy agencies, with particular emphasis on training volunteer advocates who have direct relationships with developmentally disabled people. The curriculum consists of five training sessions, each lasting about 2 1/2 hours. Following an introductory section with…

The facilitator's manual outlines a workshop schedule for training consultants in special education. The workshop is divided into two phases (change and leadership) with units which cover the following topics: resistance to change or to the change agent, levels of change, the change cycles, change processes, competition and confrontation, two…

The playwrights-directors workshop at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) allows students of directing and playwriting to meet jointly to explore and solve problems in the creation and production of original one-act scripts. At the heart of the program is the belief that both playwriting and directing students profit from producing their efforts…

The different technologies applicable to computer networks serving limited geographic areas, e.g., a single campus, factory, or office complex, are discussed in a number of short presentations made by active researchers and implementers in this field. Intensive discussion by participants in working sessions is reported for six topics: subnet…

Intended for workshop planners, the document offers guidelines to organizing and designing a family education workshop or inservice program for families of developmentally disabled individuals. Section I focuses on steps in developing a family education workshop including identifying needs, determining goals and objectives, organizing the program,…

The Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services (OASIS) at the University of California at San Diego sponsors a workshop that teaches tutors to use five types of probing skills. The use of the skills is fundamental to the student learner's acquisition of complex relationships and problem solving skills. The five types of probes are:…

TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF A 1968 WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR COLLEGE PRESIDENTS WITH LITTLE PREVIOUS JUNIOR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE, 68 SUCH PRESIDENTS WERE SURVEYED BY LETTER AND FOUR OTHERS WERE INTERVIEWED. OF THE FOUR INTERVIEWEES AND THE 36 RESPONDENTS, ALL WERE IN FAVOR OF SUCH A WORKSHOP, PREFERABLY FOR ONE WEEK IN JULY. RELATIONSHIP WITH FACULTY…

THIS WORKSHOP, WHICH WAS PLANNED FOR THE STUDY OF ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING PROGRAMS, INCLUDED DISCUSSION OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS FOR SUCH PROGRAMS, PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES IN CURRICULUM DESIGN, SELECTION OF SPECIFIC CONTENT AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES, "PRE" AND "POST" CONFERENCES, ASSIGNMENT PATTERNS, TESTING AND EVALUATION, AND RECENT…