CENTRAL TO THIS DISCUSSION OF LABORATORY TRAINING IS THE PROPOSITION THAT, IN DESIGNING LABORATORY EXPERIENCES, ONE MUST CONSIDER THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE NATURE OF THE HUMAN PERSONALITY. BASIC NEEDS FOR SELF AWARENESS, SELF ACCEPTANCE, AND INTERPERSONAL COMPETENCE ARE MET THROUGH GROUP, INTERGROUP, AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS. SELF ACCEPTANCE IN PARTICULAR…

This manual, prepared by the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging, is intended to aid agencies concerned with aging in planning volunteer programs. This second of three volumes helps the volunteer coordinator design and implement a successful training program for the volunteer network. The training process described here begins with the…

The annual report on the Indian Education Program of the State of Washington provides a breakdown of the distribution of Johnson-O'Malley funds to the various districts for the fiscal year 1968, and a summary of expenditures during the 1967-68 school year. Several programs have been undertaken in attempts to meet the needs of Indian students.…

It was hypothesized that favorability of member attitudes toward the trainer and group in T groups is a function of similarity of members' control and affection needs with the trainer's. It was further predicted that similarity in control needs would affect attitudes toward the trainer primarily during an early stage, and similarity in affection…

The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of induced affect as a pregroup training experience for coping with stress related to participation in an encounter group. Twenty-six subjects who volunteered to participate in an encounter group randomly were assigned to three treatment groups: Induced Affect Training plus the Encounter…

Systematic Human Relations Training (SHRT) is predicated on the basic assumption that there are certain core helper-offered conditions that are necessary in a helping relationship, i.e., empathy, respect, warmth, concreteness, genuineness, self-disclosure confrontation, and immediacy. This, however, is only part of the model. The second basic…

A project of the Riverside Research Institute (RRI) provided training for 10 hard core unemployed for one year in four vocational skills: computer peripheral equipment operators, electronics technicians, machine operators, and draftsmen. Selection was based on at least an eighth grade verbal and numerical achievement level, tests, and interviews.…

With the objective of improving communication skills, specific academic skills, and problem-solving ability among teachers of Indians, this workshop organized three major activity groups: M Groups--mixed level groups for improving communication skills and self perception; I Groups--special interest groups for improving skills in specific academic…

This study used a random assignment pretest posttest control group design to measure the influence of sensitivity training on student teachers' perception and treatment of behavior problems of elementary school children. The control group received the traditional student teacher training, while the experimental group received, in addition, nine…

In order to assess the effect of T-Group sensitivity training on teacher attitudes, 25 elementary and secondary school teachers were given the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI) both before and after a 10-week T-Group program. A control group of 16 teachers taking an inservice course in Iroquois Indian History was used. Results showed…

This paper describes a curriculum in human relations, written from a behavioral frame of reference, the primary objective of which is the development of teachers who can act freely and spontaneously, i.e. with intentionality. Intentionality defines a central objective of teacher training, namely the teacher who can respond and act appropriately in…

In teaching English as a foreign language overseas, the teacher is often more successful than the teacher of English as a second language in the United States. Required to be constantly alert so that cultural assumptions in the teaching materials are not slighted, he must present all levels of speech and leave nothing about the language and…