Presents a model to clarify the facilitator's role in working with groups. The Hourglass Approach model incorporates Carkhuff's empathetic levels of communication and Schultz's theory of personality. It is designed to be a systematic and comprehensive method usable with a variety of counseling approaches in all types of groups. (JAC)

Discusses methods of evaluation in the social studies which test development of student skills in participation, inquiry, analysis, and reflection. Examples of evaluation strategies and suggestions on grading are presented. (Author/DB)

After discharge from the hospital, many mental patients go back to the kind of environment that contributed to their breakdown. In the belief that new options should be available to mental patients when discharged, a hospital in New York City developed--with marked success--a plan for group living. (Author)

The results of this study indicated that a basic encounter group experience had no effect as measured by the Personality Orientation Inventory either on the participant supervisory teachers or on the teacher trainees with whom they subsequently worked in small groups. (Author)

This article describes group therapy with exhibitionists and voyeurs in a psychiatric outpatient clinic. With the modest goal of developing a corrective relationship with these men, the therapist helped them increase their ability to control their unacceptable impulses, deal with their passivity and male identity problems, and enhance their…

Focuses on exploring approaches to better understanding of self, and examing school setting for purpose of enhancing well being of all children. (Author)

Logs are presented to communicate what was observed and felt by author while attending a graduate class in group process. (Author)

Comparisons between trained and untrained groups with respect to their performance on the 12 Angry Men decision making task indicated that trained groups consistently performed more effectively than untrained on measures of decision quality, utilization of superior resources, and creativity. (Author)

This study appears to support the general hypothesis that participation in sensitivity training increases counselor self disclosure. It also supports former suggestions regarding the investigation of psychological self disclosure in prosepctive counselors. (Author)

A Montana state school's and hospital's decentralized institutional administrative policy is discussed. (CB)

Presents theoretical analysis of dynamics of self help groups with special reference to dimensions of volunteer participation. Annotated bibliography ("Self Help and Rehabilitation ) available from author at UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California 90024. (Author)

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)

Forty-eight suburban seventh-grade science students (41 nonhandicapped, nine severely adaptively handicapped) were assigned to cooperative learning (CL) and individual learning (IL) conditions. Among results were that the CL condition favored more interaction and interpersonal attraction between the handicapped and nonhandicapped children.…