Acquiring a repertoire of competencies for creating and maintaining successful parent partnerships is an exceedingly important yet difficult task for pre-service educators. This mixed-methods study compared non-traditional and traditional approaches to transforming undergraduate student dispositions and competencies toward parent/professional…

In this article, Uma Jayakumar investigates the relationship between white individuals' exposure to racial diversity during college and their postcollege cross-cultural workforce competencies. Using survey data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, housed in the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at…

Due to mounting pressures to avoid offending individuals on the basis of demographic group membership, political correctness has begun to restrict student participation in our diversity courses. This restriction diminishes what can be learned from class dialogue, an important component of diversity instruction. This article offers a model of…

The U.S. Census bureau projects that by 2023, minorities will comprise more than half of all children. The population of school-aged Hispanic children is already the largest ethnic group, and the sheer number and rate of increase of these linguistically and culturally different students creates unfamiliar cultural challenges for school leaders.…

The Esalen Institute is located on a scenic portion of the California Coast, about 40 miles south of the Monterey Peninsula. The location contains natural cliffside hot springs from which mineral water flows into the sea. The springs were used in early times by the now extinct Esselen Indian tribe (from which Esalen derives its name) and this…

The author discusses two teaching methods used at the college level: 1) lectures; and 2) encounter group techniques. (Author/RM)

Yalom's Q-sort questionnaire was administered to 13 groups and then item analized. Factor analysis identified seven major "curative" factors. Analysis of variance and correlation techniques showed that part of the variation in curative factor perception is related to characteristics of groups and/or their participants. (SE)

This article describes a study to evaluate the impact of gestalt awareness training as a component in a one-year preservice teacher training program. (PD)

The author defines sales effectiveness in terms of problem solving skills and interpoersonal awareness as well as knowledge of the product. Awareness in a communications/sales situation is discussed, and 15 characteristics are presented as the outcomes of successful awareness training. (AJ)

Groups composed of members who were rated high in interpersonal skills are found to engage in significantly more personal discussion and feedback and less impersonal discussion than groups composed of members rated low in these skills. Groups receiving pretraining show similar differences when compared to no-pretraining controls. (Author)

The data suggest that personal development can be encouraged and traditional training relationships rather radically realigned while maintaining the quality of patient care and enhancing the learning of medical knowledge. (Author/KE)

This case study is presented as a model for a sensitivity training program planned at Michigan State University. The goals, procedures, and criteria for conducting a program are illustrated. Based on the assumption that empathy is the mainspring of impression formation, and that empathy and evaluation interact, the goal is accurate evaluation.…

The marathon is a specific form of the psycho-process cluster which has its own identifiable characteristics, the basic one being intensity. The primary objective in structuring the marathon is to intensify physical and emotional contact in order to precipitate, encourage, and accelerate the process of behavior change. Myths which have evolved…

The 1968 Summer NDEA Guidance Institute at the University of South Dakota studied the impact of video recordings on members of counseling groups to see what their perceptions were when they realized they would later be confronted with their behavior via the tapes. The 32 members of the Institute, practicing counselors in the public schools in the…