This paper discusses the organizational structure of religious communities and its effect on interpersonal relations. Religious communities tend to be organized structurally according to the traditional bureaucratic model of (1) relatively rigid structure; (2) carefully defined functional specialization; (3) direction and control implemented…

Current exploratory work on one element of one component of the development and evaluation of a comprehensive guidance system has been reviewed. This element, the Personal and Social Development Program (PSDP), is an attempt to assist students in the assessment and modification of their academic and interpersonal behaviors. Designed to operate…

This study investigated and compared the effectiveness of T groups and the Human Development Institute (HDI) in changing interpersonal perception styles and communication skills. In 20 hours of instruction over a ten week period, the two training conditions were systematically varied with groups of elementary school teachers differing on the…

This instructor's guide to a Teacher Corps training package is designed to assist the instructor in: (a) sensitizing the intern to the affective nature of the commitment to teacher troubled youth; (b) enabling the intern to identify and define recidivism, high mobility, confrontation with authority, and self-concept, and to describe the…

The Generic Skills project is a research study being conducted in Canada to determine those overt and covert behaviors which are fundamental to the performance of many tasks and sub-tasks performed in a wide range of occupations. Data aimed at determining the needs for adult education and training have been obtained in two surveys. In the first,…

The curriculum guide provides teaching units and activities to integrate career education concepts into the curriculum for educable mentally handicapped children in grades 7 through 12. Focused on are 16 concepts of career development such as the interrelationship between occupations and life style and between education and work. In addition, 12…

The Leadership Laboratory for Student Development program, its rationale, objectives, and evaluation findings are discussed. The Leadership Lab, created to prepare a student leader to interact with a variety of people found in the typical school setting, provides students with structured learning experiences that progress from basic communication…

Ten communication content areas comprise this program: (1) the impact of language on behavior; (2) the communication process; (3) perceptiveness; (4) understanding and clarity; (5) sharing feelings; (6) nonverbal expression; (7) emotional closeness; (8) honest yet responsible; (9) communication responses; and (10) interpersonal problem solving.…

Only by being aware of the variables present when person "A" perceives person "B" ("person perception") can the student of industrial communications effectively draw impressions of others as an interviewer. The purpose here is to summarize pertinent research findings on person perception and to illuminate their utility to the interviewer. The…

Performance objectives related to occupational, social, communication, and daily living skills are specified for trainable mentally handicapped students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Each skill area is broken down into four to seven component units (number of objectives for each unit is noted in parentheses): manual activities (10), work…

This study was concerned with the classroom adjustment of the nursery school child and the role of the teacher as a facilitator of change in adjustment. The first objective was to increase the value of the teacher's social responses of attention and approval in children who seemed to value these responses least, and the second objective was to…

This paper was written for high school teachers and other youth workers, who are looking for effective ways to support and assist adolescents as they deal with their complex, and often painful, changing family relationships. It describes A Family Drama Workshop, a series of seminars on families and communication, which was developed and presented…

Presented is the final report of a project to increase academic performance and social interaction in 52 retarded or normal children (3-18 years old) through training teachers in the use of three social skills: exchange, competition, and cooperation. The following project objectives are discussed: operational identification of the three social…

Provided is a curriculum guide based on the lifelong learning needs of moderately retarded persons. Behavioral objectives are identified at each of six levels of functioning which approximate the mental age levels of 1.5, 3.0, 5.0, 7.0, 8.0, and 8.0 + (adult) years. Sections cover the following persisting life problem areas: (1) developing the…

Examination of the relationships between achievement ratings and interaction variables suggest that teachers interpret the same student behavior in different ways depending upon the student's race. With increased understanding of the student characteristics and behaviors influencing the formation of differential teacher perceptions, it would be…