The growing demand for more services that are effective, accountable, and responsive to the consumer calls for a new training design for workers in the human services. A comparison of training for pilots and plumbers suggests a basic technique for this design. (Author)

A consistent finding was that across facilitative conditions, the low facilitators generally changed significantly more than the high facilitators, and significantly more so with students than with patients. (Author)

The findings support the notion that seating distance, as one channel of nonverbal communication, can affect the interviewer-patient relationship. (Author)

Listed are a number of centers for training in group work. They are categorized by general type of training offered and by necessary prerequisites. Mailing addresses are included. (CJ)

The results of this study suggest that it can be helpful to all persons involved in the total educative process if inservice training programs were developed to help all faculty members understand the kinds of problems with which students would like their help and to develop the facility to deal with those problems. (Author)

The peer influence model holds great potential for assisting new students develop more effective behavior in the school setting while at the same time establishing a close and cooperative relationship with older students. (Author)

Suggests invitational education provides both a theory and a system for school counselors seeking to integrate counseling techniques, roles, and functions. Presents an overview of the invitational model and practical applications for counselors. (RC)

Compared personal characteristics, motivations for entering volunteer work, activities, problem situations encountered, and rewarding experiences of volunteers in adult and juvenile justice agencies for volunteers. Although levels of satisfaction and strength of motivations varied somewhat, subjects were remarkably similar in their general…

Male and female experimenters requested adult shoppers (N=178) to fill out a questionnaire. Refusal data showed shoppers helping other-sex more than same-sex experimenters. Other results showed a significant three-way interaction among helper and helpee sex and sex-typing and situation sex-typing and that helper sex-typing did not have significant…

Evaluated responses of volunteers to a telephone crisis line to determine presence of appropriate statements to offer to a caller. Most responses were advisements, which were high for calls dealing with loneliness and dating. Feelings were ignored by most volunteers. This was considered inappropriate for helping agencies. (Author)

One hundred and fifty-six children between the ages of 18 and 76 months were observed three times for 10 minutes each during free play in an attempt to describe the helping behavior of preschool children. (Author/RH)

Argues that the major ways to increase rehabilitation counselor effectiveness with the severely disabled are to provide counselors with high level communication skills, reduce their own anxieties about working with the severely disabled, reinforce counselor action activities for the client as an addition to communication skills. A practicum…

This article presents a basic description of bibliotherapy and suggests ways a classroom teacher can apply the technique to help a student with emotional problems. Some titles relevant to childhood problems are suggested for pupils aged five to eight. (SJL)

Task-centered social work, like many other short-term treatment models, assumes that the degree of concentration on a problem is positively related to change. This study examines that assumption. (Author)