This document describes an instructional packet designed to help teachers develop effective techniques for monitoring classroom behavior. Monitoring student classroom behavior requires the possession of a meaningful set of categories with which to describe student behavior, the ability to identify examples of those behaviors in the context of…

This paper reports a quasi-experimental study which was designed and conducted to learn more about the impact of selected consultant interactional behaviors on consultee satisfaction with consultation. Specifically, the study focused on the effects of consultant effort to foster a collaborative consultative relationship. Consultant efforts were…

An overview of major themes in altruism research during the 1969-1975 period is presented. Those problems specific to each approach, as well as problems believed to plague the bulk of current studies, are briefly described. Several areas of research (e.g., processes involved in the receiving of help) that appear particularly promising are also…

Six case studies are presented of School Community Councils (SCCs) in the Urban/Rural School Development Program of the Stanford University Leadership Training Institute. The councils were organized to facilitate school improvement and development through the incorporation of both school and community input. Each SCC was composed of two…

Hans-Georg Gadamer's development of the hermeneutic question points to the need for a hermeneutic consciousness in the United States appropriate for human communication research. Communication studies in the United States have taken a route very different from hermeneutics. They are based on attempts to understand the subjective intentions of a…

Uses a case study to explore the role of counselor and clients and the interactive process that should begin to occur in a second interview during marriage counseling. Concludes with comments and critique of the articles. (EJT)

Presents a two-hour counseling session with a family dealing with problems relating to a re-marriage. Using critiques and commentary of others, explores the role of the counselor, issues and techniques used in family counseling. (EJT)

The effects of communications training using a frequency count method to measure trainee behavior were studied. Both advanced and beginning structured training groups were compared with unstructured encounter groups. The results showed increases in empathic responses in the structured training groups and increases in questioning and…

Observed 45 fourth- and fifth-grade boys and their parents in structured interaction situations. Boys selected for the study were highly internal and external in locus of control and were observed to assess the parental influence on their locus of control. (LLK)

A discussion of the interpersonal and organizational underpinnings of group living and residential care for children. (Author/CS)

Males (24) and females (24) viewed the videotaped professional self-presentation of a presumed counselor who was either physically attractive or unattractive. Subjects then indicated their impressions of the counselor on 12 traits and their expectancies of the counselor's helpfulness for 15 personal problems. (Author)

This paper explores the college classroom as a cybernetic system and the implications of such a conceptualization for college teaching. (MK)

Flanders' interaction analysis method is discussed with relation to teacher training. A modification of the analysis is outlined with reference to the coding procedure developed by Urbach. The original category system is modified to include relevant aspects of classroom interaction. (Text is in German.) (AM)

Delivered at the conference of the American School Health Association, November 9, 1968.