The paper describes the characteristics of a successfully operating study group for practicing special education teachers to promote professional exchange and problem solving and maintenance and generalization of professional teacher practices. Procedural characteristics are noted as well as some social validation data collected from group…

Discusses the development and description of a comprehensive framework to explain small group behavior labeled the Matrix Model. Argues that a synthesis of knowledge from the adaptive, developmental, structural, transactional, and gestalt points of view will provide a more meaningful and useful understanding of small groups. (LLL)

Presents a particular model for viewing co-therapy issues which takes a single-mindedly psychological view of therapy group phenomena. (Author)

High performance teams allow conflict to surface and then work toward understanding and resolution. Often when teams are in conflict, they appear to be in chaos. What may be occurring is that the conflict has allowed the team to access new information, and what appears to be chaos is actually reorganization around a new perspective. Capitalizing…

It is the purpose of this article to explore poetry as a means of stimulating group development toward increasing directness of expression. (Author)

This article discusses a method of teaching and learning in which the family is used as a paradigm, providing the prototype for subsequent relationships. It is hypothesized that if the dynamics of familial relations are understood, it should be possible to perceive analogous dynamics at work in other relationships. (Author/RWP)

Results indicate that group participants in a consciousness raising session generally move through a process of creating a new identity, seeing themselves as pitted against the establishment; denying establishment values for new ones; and supporting liberation efforts of unrecognized groups. (RN)

By extending Fiedler's conception of leader orientation, it was hypothesized that groups led by trainers oriented toward the group members most liked by their group are more effective-in terms of member satisfaction and achievement of group goals-than group trainers oriented toward least-liked members of their group. This hypothesis was tested by…

Failure to distinguish between prescriptive and descriptive theory, to grasp the social group-work group and its context as a distinctive whole, and to take account of the worker's intentions have hampered the development of theories of social group work. This article discusses these concepts. (Author)

Results supported the hypothesis that increasing numbers of coactors results in increasing impairment of motor performance. (Authors)

The purpose of this study was the development and testing of an instrument for measuring interaction behavior in small group communication. It was designed to produce valid and reliable measures for each dimension of such behavior. (Author/JB)

The authors describe a teaching technique, the live case study approach, which seems to be effective in giving students real experimential involvement. (BY)