An Interaction Management training program consists of five to ten skill modules selected on the basis of a training needs survey to meet the needs of the participating first- and second-level supervisors. (Author)

Pretesting not only helps determine the benefits of a training program, it can actually help trainees learn more. (Author/SSH)

Presents specific training objectives which constitute a base for a one-year clinical training program in family therapy at the Institute for Juvenile Research in Chicago. Training objectives include three categories of skills: observational, conceptual, and therapeutic. Describes training objectives and the program in which they are implemented.…

Describes the Directed Individual Response-Educational Consulting Technique (DIRECT) which delineates seven steps in the consulting process and further specifies four levels of appropriate consultant "leads" to facilitate the development of each step. The DIRECT model is specifically designed to promote development of consulting interview skills.…

Manipulated two aspects of the general empathy training situation in an attempt to produce higher levels of "empathic responding" following a brief training program. Results showed the experimental manipulations increased more empathic responses in the group asked to display competence than in the group asked to learn "empathic responding."…

This article describes the elements of trainer feedback, offers guidelines for giving and receiving feedback, and responds to common issues concerning the use of feedback in skill training groups. (Author)

Twelve ideas to produce technical training faster, make it longer lasting, and more cost effective are examined. They include performance improvement analysis, cause analysis, observing actual performance, concentrating more on the stimuli, considering alternatives to training, stating terminal behaviors for training programs, and using feedback…

Many professional staff training programs are designed to improve the interpersonal competence of the participants. This article presents a step-by-step description of a role-play test designed to evaluate both the effectiveness of such programs and the improvement in the skills of participants. (Author)

Presents coding manual developed from communication skills program which offers rating system for face-to-face talk processes derived from response mode framework proposed by Goodman and Dooley (1976). Major sections of manual correspond to six major response modalities. Within each major mode, subcategory is defined and examples are offered.…

Proposes a new training approach to teach effective statistical thinking and describes two studies where people were trained to solve tasks involving conjunctive and conditional probabilities using a frequency grid. Discusses frequency format versus probability format, and describes results that suggest the importance of learning by doing.…

Ten adults with moderate and severe mental retardation were taught to construct shipping boxes using a dyadic instructional format in which each member of the dyad received instruction on one half of the task analysis on an alternative basis. Four of the five dyads learned to construct shipping boxes. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

Self-care in toileting is one of the areas that persons with autism frequently have difficulty managing and are often confused by training. In developing a toilet training plan, critical factors include teaching the skill where it will be used, considering modesty concerns, communicating clear expectations, ruling out medical problems, and…

This communicative intent curriculum attempts to demonstrate expressive communication skill acquisition training for students with severe/profound mental impairments at a developmental level of birth to 10 months, and outlines an expressive communication sequence for people who have a "no understandable speech" prognosis. The curriculum…

This study investigated the effects of mastery learning on learner achievement in the psychomotor domain and also sought to identify the specific learner who might benefit from the use of mastery learning techniques. Subjects were college students learning to play racquetball. Fourty-three students were assigned to three intact mastery classes,…

This manual presents a comprehensive training design, suggested procedures, and materials for conducting a workshop in the design, construction, operation, maintenance, and repair of hydrams, and in the planning and implementation of hydram projects. Hydrams (hydraulic rams, hydraulic ram pumps, automatic hydraulic ram pumps, rams) are devices…