Examined effectiveness of different empathy training approaches with high and low conceptual level (CL) trainees and effects of client ambivalence on empathic responding. High CL trainees were found to be more empathic to ambivalent affect statements, while no difference was found on responses to nonambivalent statements. (Author)

The efficacy of training as a mode of treatment has been tried in many settings with a variety of populations. This study utilizes assertive training as a mode of treatment. Results indicate assertive training as having both positive and negative effects as perceived by trainees and their spouses. (Author)

This report focuses on differences in training style among four trainers as measured by the Training Style Scoring System. The study concludes that supportive and trusting interrelations between members develop when the leader permits open expression of hostility toward his/herself. The difficulty of allowing this is noted. (NG)

This study attempted to examine whether growth groups are an effective training technique in counselor education. Two experimental groups which differed in group size and the amount of time devoted to the group experience were compared to a control group. Improved congruence between real and ideal self was found in the students who participated in…

This study examined the effects of instructions and modeling in the reflection-of-feeling training of individuals low in interpersonal-communication skills. Analysis of the reflection-of-feeling data indicated that instructions and instructions-plus-modeling were facilitative procedures. (Author)

This research looks at the effects of laboratory training on self concept. The gestalt and encounter approaches are employed to test the amount of self concept change possible in group experiences. (YRJ)

Three training programs for girl-shy males were designed. The effectiveness of a response-acquisition treatment was compared with a cognitive self-statement modification treatment, a combination of these two, and a waiting-list control group. The results indicated that subjects trained in cognitive self-statement modification showed significantly…

Several treatment and therapist training programs use role playing, videotape feedback, and modeling in combination. Undergraduates were randomly allocated into four groups of 12 subjects each: no-treatment controls, role playing, video feedback, and modeling. Results showed, modeling produced the greatest overall behavioral change, followed by…

This study determined the effects of using structured learning techniques to train lower socioeconomic emotionally disturbed children and adolescents (N=40) in verbal behaviors. Posttraining results indicated significant effects for the experimental treatment on subject acquisition of interview initiation and interview responsibility. (Author)

The development of a classification system for analysis of specific verbal marital communications utilizing videotaped Stimulus-Modeling procedures is described. Findings reveal specific marital verbal behaviors can be operationalized and reliably measured. The results indicate the need to combine modern technology with modeling procedures in…

The parents of a six-year-old disruptive boy were observed interacting with their son during 20 assessment-oriented, 10-minute experimental sessions. An experimental design consisting of alternately arranged baseline and self-monitoring conditions was utilized. Following the reversal-to-baseline phase, parents were given specialized training in…

Over a period of three years, the National Consortium for Humanizing Education worked with teachers and students in two states to test hypotheses drawn from a model in which student outcomes (including good mental health) were seen as the results of a learning process occurring between individuals rather than as the product of an institutionalized…

"A Study of Schooling" is an in-depth descriptive study of 38 purposively sampled schools in the United States. Many aspects of the educational process were examined, from student attitudes to principal leadership styles. Essential to this comprehensive view of education is a view of within classroom processes, including teacher student…