School counselors without any special training may be able to work effectively with small groups of students who have been classified "emotionally disturbed. (CK)

This is a paper presented at the World Congress on Guidance, Mexico City, August, 1969, concerning: (1) communication gaps in the university; (2) the evolution of group counseling; (3) the evolutionary pattern; (4) emotions; and (5) other steps that may be taken by a university. (EK)

White teachers (n equals 14) and black parents (n equals 10) received systematic training in interpersonal skills from a black trainer and a white trainer in counterbalanced order. Significant gains were demonstrated in communication and discriminaiton on standard helpee stimulus expressions and standard racialproblems and in functioning the…

Due to increased confusion resulting from indiscriminate labeling of processes, the guidelines for distinguishing differences between group processes have become hazy. The authors attemat attempt establish new guidelines by redefining and reclassifying four widely used terms: group guidance; group counseling; sensitivity training; and group…

The author suggests that a counselor's emphasis should be on flexibility of approach. A counseling system should include physical as well as verbal and artistic means of communication. The educational system should be as concerned with psychomotor aspects of learning as with affective and cognitive aspects. (Author)

A teaching model is presented which was used for increasing the skills and interests of practicing school counselors in group counseling. A significant aspect of the model is its inclusion of learnings designed to explore both affective and cognitive aspects of the group process. (Author)

Couples experiencing marital problems were assigned to a control group receiving no treatment; a group receiving programmed instruction on communication in marriage; and a group receiving counseling emphasizing marital communication. Compared to the control group, the programmed text group changed positively but not significantly. (Author)

This paper identifies several kinds of counselor activity for which practicum experiences have been or are being designed. These include individual and group counseling, outreach consultation, supervision of practicum students, and study of student development. (Author)

Some significant differences were discovered between individual and group sessions and among elementary, junior, and senior high students on three of the four theme classifications: (1) Self; (2) Significant Others, Authority Figures; (3) Significant Others, Peers; and (4) Ideas, Places, Things, and Time Topics. (Author/CJ)

The results of the study on developmental group counseling showed no experimental control group differences of practical significance despite substantial differences between counseling group and placebo control group students in perception of personal benefit. (Author)