Compared the effects of a psychoanalytic or group treatment model in promoting self-actualization in 19 counselor trainees. Results showed significant differences between treatment models: psychoanalytic groups reported higher anxiety, and client-centered groups showed greater initial gains on the Personal Orientation Inventory and maintained…

Some rehabilitative programs can reduce recidivism and justify the time, money, and effort required to sustain them. Youth programs, such as diversion, probation, group counseling, and academic and vocational education efforts, with documented successes, are described, as well as educational and vocatonal programs that have been successful with…

Discusses ethics from a group practitioner's viewpoint in seven articles. Presents specific ethical issues in implementing group techniques, especially confidentiality. Summarizes survey results from 12 group experts' descriptions of critical group work incidents. Considers ethical development training for group leaders and program evaluation and…

Outlines for the beginning group counselor a method for organizing and evaluating the ongoing group experience. Defines the specific categories and describes the method by which the outline can be used. (RC)

Describes a small group discussion-oriented anxiety management training course. Presents a training model consisting of a variety of cognitive and relaxation-oriented anxiety management techniques. (MCF)

Discusses work with small groups of care-taking relatives of frail, dependent older adults. Considers repetitive themes of concern expressed by the caregivers and their dependent relatives and some of the changes in attitudes and approaches of participants during and after the groups' experiences. (Author)

The awareness group experience (AGE) is a one-day structured workshop that helps participants to become more aware of their attitudes toward ethnic minorities and to change those attitudes that are negative. This article explains how to plan the AGE workshop, lists its goals, describes the sessions, and provides participant feedback. (Author)

Examined effectiveness of interpretation of vocational interest inventory results. Data provide limited support for the hypotheses that integrative interpretation is most effective. Significant interactions exist between counselors and interpretation procedures. Failure to find significant differences between traditional-individual and…

Studied matched groups of depressed college students who were treated by behavioral-interpersonal and cognitive treatments, each under two conditions. Both kinds of treatment proved more effective than no treatment, with some evidence of superiority of the behavioral-interpersonal approach. (Author)

Concludes that a systematically organized program of group counseling and tutoring did not produce significant changes in the attitudes, reading ability, and grade point averages of academically deficient students who had returned to college after military service. (FL)

Presents an annotated bibliography of books, articles, and other commercially produced materials dealing with life-skills training. Gazda's developmental modalities provide the framework for these sources, many of which are relevant for group usage. (JAC)

The authors discuss the need for counseling (particularly group counseling) of gifted students, and outline some of the human relations programs offered at a public high school.

Nurses who attended the program had a more positive attitude toward death and dying patients. Findings suggest that this kind of program might also be helpful to nurses who do not express a desire to attend such a program and to student nurses. (JAC)

The article reports pilot and experimental studies using group structures to teach six blind young adults the use of social negotiation skills and to increase their self confidence. It was concluded that the procedure was largely successful and 10 recommendations, such as the use of individual counseling in addition to group work, are listed. (PHR)