This model permits the identification and classification of a variety of counseling programs or counseling approaches and thereby serves as a means of categorizing and describing the potential activities of the counselor in a variety of settings. The three dimensions described are the intervention target, purpose, and method. (Author)

Personal growth in human potential laboratory participants was tested in the community college setting. When compared to a control group, laboratory participants made significant gains on four of twelve scales of the Personal Orientation Inventory. Participatng groups with high pretest variability tended to demonstrate the greatest growth. (Author)

Subjects were 84 university and high school students. Data was obtained from responses to a behavioral goal questionnaire and the Truax Relationship Inventory. Structuring of group counseling through the use of principal actor time did not result in differential goal attainment between clients of structured or unstructured groups. Neither was any…

The authors describe an attempt to improve academic skills and self concept in elementary school students through sensory-motor development. (RWP)

The current study is a one-year follow-up of an earlier report that group counseling with institutionalized delinquent females resulted in significant gains in the connotative meanings of several concepts. (Author)

Underachieving volunteers and non-volunteers were taught effective study skills through group reinforcement counselling. Results supported reinforcement counselling with volunteering clients. (Author)

The results suggest that the vocational educational counseling by all treatments was reasonably effective in most of the areas investigated. The programmed self instruction, however, proved superior to either the individual or group treatment on several areas. (Author/BY)

The GUICO (guidance and counseling) approach synthesizes various elements of group guidance and group counseling in order to achieve developmental social and remedial problem solving goals in group settings. Counselors share responsibility for group leadership, provide structure for group events; and act as models in role playing situations. Group…

The counselor, using the activity interaction model, has become an arranger of the conditions required for learning. The establishment of such an environment assists children to fuller functioning in school and the reality of their lives outside the school. (Author)

The three approaches compared fall on a continuum according to the amount of structure involved. The two structured approaches were less threatening to the participants and served to acclimate children to group processes. The unstructured approach allowed children the freedom to discuss areas of greatest concern to them. (BY)

A system framework is presented for categorizing the various clinical approaches in marital and family therapy. Several ways of bridging the professional gap between therapists and researchers are suggested. Recommendations for interdisciplinary borrowing are indicated and exemplary projects giving new direction to the fields are discussed.…

The Self Disclosure Inventory for Adolescents, administered to 271 ninth grade students, indicates lack of direct relationship between self disclosure and personal adjustment. Suggestion offered that adolescent counseling be structured so individuals are not pressured to become too open. (CJ)