Discusses the primary importance for professionals in rehabilitation to help the physically handicapped develop the capacity to evaluate and train for specific social, personal, and community adjustment objectives. Major topics are identification of behavioral objectives, and training techniques and methods, based on normalization principles. (TA)

This article describes a behaviorally focused in-service training program for paraprofessional resident assistants. The format used includes workshops and seminars taught through experiential learning, structured experiences, short lectures and small group discussions. The theoretical base of this program is developmental learning theory. (DOW)

This report focuses on differences in training style among four trainers as measured by the Training Style Scoring System. The study concludes that supportive and trusting interrelations between members develop when the leader permits open expression of hostility toward his/herself. The difficulty of allowing this is noted. (NG)

A leadership approach applicable for counselors and guidance directors is presented. Videotapes of groups that were given leadership problems were informally studied and a number of dimensions identified that would help counselors in developing a leadership approach appropriate for their situations. (Author)

To improve resident assistant job performance in a large university setting, a six-hour training program was developed to increase the assertive behavior of resident assistants. The program combined assertive training techniques with simulated residence hall job performance situations. Results indicate significant increases for the training group…

Cross-lagged correlational analyses and multiple-regression analyses of the data collected in these two studies supports the causal model that, while intentionality and internality both emerge when a common cognitive construct develops, heightened internality also significantly enhances a child's ability to learn intentionality. (Author/JMB)

A program was developed to teach three profoundly retarded children to feed themselves. (Author)

The receptivity of a small firm to training from external agencies and the problem-solving training approaches likely to attract managers of small companies are discussed by British manpower development advisers. Group training services, courses or workshops, and services of educational institutions are suggested to help the small business…

The effects of an audiotaped leaderless encounter group on training in basic helping skills were examined. No changes in trainees' self-actualization, trait or state anxiety, or rated verbal helping behavior were found due to participation in the encounter group. (Author)

The author questions the extent to which educators have relied on "relevance" and learner participation in objective-setting in the past decade. He describes a useful approach to learner-oriented evaluation in which content relevance was not judged by participants until after they had been exposed to it. (MF)

The effects of training specific mnemonic skills on recall readiness were evaluated in educable retarded children. (BRT)

Hospitalized brain-damaged patients were Ss in a study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a treatment technique used with contingent reinforcement to facilitate acquisition and retention of environmentally relevant information. (Editor)

This study was undertaken to investigate the ability of measures of diagnostic data usage to differentiate among groups of successfully trained and experienced school psychologists. (Author)

Defines and discusses traditional intercultural training programs and assesses four basic models in terms of classroom value. Emphasizes the value of the experiential approach for classroom instruction. (MH)