The purpose of this study was: (1) to determine the effect, if any, that the race of the group leader has on the improvement in intergroup attitude of racially mixed elementary school students who participate in group counseling; and (2) to determine whether racially mixed groups of elementary students who participate in group counseling make more…

This talk, presented at a symposium sets forth the concepts which the author believes provide the basis for deciding appropriate behavior in group settings. He also considers the functioning of the counselor in a social context, since traditional concepts of agency policy and the role of the counselor as a change agent now are undergoing rapid…

One hundred sixty-eight women, most of them mothers of about age 40, were tested on the 16 PF Questionnaire as part of a group counseling class to help them find new life goals. Scores revealed them to be highly intelligent and highly creative as compared to the standard for adult women. Factor direction suggests that self-renewing women as a…

Self-concept, creativity, growth orientation, an integrated value system, and receptiveness to new experiences are considered to be crucial variables to the self-actualization process. A regular, year-long group counseling program was conducted with 85 randomly selected gifted secondary students in the Farmington, Connecticut Public Schools. A…

This study assesses the effectiveness of a group counseling treatment on the classroom behaviors and on the manifest anxiety levels of elementary school student teachers. The subjects were 44 volunteer student teachers, randomly assigned to three groups: 1) an experimental counseling group, 2) a Hawthorne seminar control group, and 3) a control…

This project demonstrates the feasibility of adding preventive and rehabilitative services to a mental health program for the deaf in order to improve program effectiveness. Rehabilitation services for inpatients begin when the patient enters the hospital. Social workers and rehabilitation counselors work with family and community agencies to pave…

After a brief discussion of the physiological effects of drugs on the human body, seven distinctive features of drug usage in the United States since the start of World War II are noted, and initiation into drug usage is described. The notion of a distinct personality type of addicts is not favored since terms used to characterize the type are not…

This study investigated the relation of differing patterns of counselor verbal behavior to the progress of participants in counseling groups. More specifically, the study compared changes in school attendance and achievement by low-achieving high school students who participated in counseling groups differing in quantity and quality of counselor…

This issue of Communique, a newsletter providing resource information for practicing counselors, features an article describing two non-verbal group counseling techniques for the elementary school counselor; a description of value clarification including a definition of values, the steps in the value clarification process, and specific value…

This study tested the effectiveness of bibliocounseling, group counseling using books as an adjunct, on 48 fourth-grade boys whose third-grade reading scores fell two or more stanines below their third-grade IQ scores. The Gates MacGinitie Reading Test, Survey D; the San Diego County Inventory of Reading Attitude; and the Self-Concept and…

The Experimental Manpower Laboratory developed and piloted a structured counseling program which was designed to teach specific job-required behaviors. Each structured counseling session had as its objective, one of the job-required behaviors. Within the session specific interventions were prescribed to achieve the predetermined objective. This…

Little empirical study has been done on the efficacy of the variety of psychological approaches used to treat depression. The author reviews theoretical points of view: psychoanalytic, cognitive and behavioral, and constructs an experimental design to compare the relative effectiveness of cognitive therapy, assertiveness training and insight…

Theories about the ways in which family therapy promotes behavioral change are reviewed and a conceptual scheme containing four models or papadigms is proposed. Clinical and research evidence supporting each of the models is presented, and the overall scheme is discussed in relation to a systems theory approach to family therapy. (Author)

This last in a three-part series gives ground rules and examples for guiding the dynamics of various kinds of career groups. (Author)

Describes a real-life, workable and tested group counseling model that evolved out of the dual efforts of the Detroit Public School System and a team of university trainers. The specifics of the model and its selection are presented, as well as some early evaluation results. (Author)