This bulletin describes a procedure to provide graduate students with meaningful lab experiences, and to integrate the study of a variety of group counseling approaches with actual group leadership opportunities. It allows the beginning group counselor to develop confidence before working with emotionally disturbed clients, and also provides…

This study represents a systematic method of arriving at the cognitive and experiential training needs of the group counselor. Proposed behavioral objectives were rated and added to by experts in group counseling through a method of successive questionnaires--a modified Delphi technique. (Author)

Two direct skill-training programs involving behavior rehearsal with and without extrasession tasks were evaluated against attention-placebo and waiting list controls. Forty-eight college males were subjects. Results indicated that three of the four skill training groups showed significant increases in social dating skill level on the Role-Played…

A physician who has made many presentations to students on human sexuality relates his approach in stimulating open and honest discussion. (HMV)

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Compact counseling, an approach to short-term counseling, is presented as an effective, efficient, and structured tool for new or busy counselors. A model for using this type of approach is described in terms of (1) basic assumptions, (2) theoretical underpinnings of relationship and structure, (3) activities conducted in each of three sessions,…

TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT STUDENTS ON ACADEMIC PROBATION WHO RECEIVED SUPPORT AND INSIGHT FROM A GROUP WOULD OBTAIN HIGHER GRADE POINT AVERAGES THAN THOSE WITHOUT SUCH AN EXPERIENCE, THE RECORDS OF AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OF 30 PROBATIONARY STUDENTS WERE MATCHED ON THE BASIS OF AGE, SEX, AND NUMBER OF UNITS TAKEN, MARITAL STATUS OF PARENTS,…

THE NEED TO DEFINE THE ROLE OF THE GUIDANCE SERVICES IS THE BASIS FOR THE 3-YEAR STUDY. THE MAJOR HYPOTHESIS IS THAT GUIDANCE SPECIALISTS CAN ENHANCE LEARNING MORE EFFECTIVELY THROUGH INTERVENTION IN THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT OF CHILDREN THAN THROUGH DIRECT REMEDIAL APPROACHES TO CHILDREN THEMSELVES. THE MODEL USES AN APPROACH TO GUIDANCE…

An innovative program at the University of Washington Epilepsy Center which employes group social skills training procedures to ameliorate the psychosocial problems of chronic seizure-disorder patients is described. The rationale for the program is presented through a brief social learning analysis of the effects of long-standing periodic lack of…

The Social Development Program was originated under Title I to aid socially maladjusted students, particularly disadvantaged Negro students, to adjust socially and academically. Group dynamics were used to influence the self-concepts of sixth and seventh graders from five participating schools. This report states the formal definition of the…

In a three-year study to determine the effectiveness of additional counseling and guidance in aiding realistic educational and occupational choice by junior high school students, the 721 members of the seventh-grade classes of three Muskegon junior-high schools were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The Ohio Student Inventory…

Sponsored by Commission 13 of the American College Personnel Association, this preconvention workshop covered short term, educational, vocational, and group counseling for adults in higher education. A case history in vocational counseling was presented for discussion, together with specific questions; and typical counseling problems were…