The authors discuss the different methods of interpersonal skills training, focusing on the most commonly applied method, that of role playing used in a skills workshop context. (MEAD Subscriptions, CSML, University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YX, England) (SSH)

Describes some of the salient issues and how they were dealt with during the development and delivery of a multilevel evaluation of a large human relations training program in a federal agency. Nine references are listed. (Author/LLS)

Outlines for the beginning group counselor a method for organizing and evaluating the ongoing group experience. Defines the specific categories and describes the method by which the outline can be used. (RC)

Just as schools impart social, organizational, and political values to their students, business and industry training programs contain, in addition to the skills ostensibly taught, a large socialization component. Employee human and industrial relations courses should strive to foster democratic participation rather than subservience to the…

The awareness group experience (AGE) is a one-day structured workshop that helps participants to become more aware of their attitudes toward ethnic minorities and to change those attitudes that are negative. This article explains how to plan the AGE workshop, lists its goals, describes the sessions, and provides participant feedback. (Author)

Female participants in educational personal growth groups often have needs and goals that are different from those of male participants. Theoretical and research evidence substantiating the necessity for differential approaches to change in men and women is presented. A model to facilitate the goal attainment of women is suggested. (Author)

Studied male psychiatric patients' social sensitivity and self-awareness in a human relations training program. The two variables were significantly related. Self- awareness was not related to group acceptance. Results indicate a decrease in patient's symptoms but not as a function of social sensitivity or self-awareness. (JAC)

Suggests that a positive relationship exists between encounter group experience and the soccer team performance--a conclusion worthy of consideration in further research in the fields of psychology and sociology of sports. (Author)

T-groups methodology plays an important role as an experiential learning approach both within and outside of organizational settings. An understanding of differences and similarities between T-group training and team development is critical for communication and for intelligent decisions concerning their utility in organizational development…

This study represents one effort to systematically examine concrete instances in well-defined settings, with some knowledge of the variables involved--the input as well as the feedback and the output of the encounter groups. (Author/KMG)

Preservice teacher interns learned from direct, first-hand practical experiences rather than just from theoretical ideas, the kinds of feelings a new and stressful situation may elicit. (NQ)

Discusses the importance of cultural sensitivity when counseling members of racial and ethnic minorities, focusing primarily on racial identity development and worldviews. Questions are provided for consideration when examining one's degree of cultural sensitivity. (Author)

This article explores self management in professional work in the context of a shift from traditional professionalism to forms of governance where functions and responsibilities previously attributable to the professional communities are "insourced" to the individual worker. Drawing on data from an interview study among recently educated…

In 1998 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching initiated a comprehensive study of professional education in the United States. By focusing on the interactions of teachers and students in the classroom and other formal and informal educational settings, the foundation hoped to discover how clergy, lawyers, engineers, doctors, and…