An Encounter Weekend'' that placed the major responsibility for group progress on the group itself brought about marked behaviorial changes among the group participants. The group progressed from distrust, suspicion, and violent rhetoric to effective communication and understanding. The interracial encounter is a powerful social tool that…

Article relates sensitivity training to music education. (Author)

Describes the unexpected revelations, conflict, despair and joy, spontaneous love-feasts, and sudden enthusiasms that happen at weekend encounter centers around the country--all under the mantle of science. (RJ)

The major finding of the study is that, although encounter groups have an impact on their participants, what is carried away from the experience depends on particular characteristics of the group in interaction with what participants bring to it. (Author)

This paper focuses on a comparison of two models, with special attention to the ways in which authority and peer relations are viewed. The need for theoretical and technical amalgamation to advance our understanding of group phenomena is stressed. A comment by James Crowfoot, University of Michigan follows. (Author)

Both society and the individual student need a deliberate and conscientious attention to the development of listening skills. It is felt that the T-Group setting is an excellent vehicle for this development. A tentative design is proposed through attention to key factors of content and style of training. (Author)

Describes program at West Virginia University. (RT)

The present study extends the understanding of the level of emotional arousal produced by T Groups by providing a comparison with the college examination. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of the interaction of leader empathy, participant motivation to change, and leader-participant relationship. When a multiple regression analysis was used to observe the relationship between changes in effective sensitivity and the three variables, a significant positive relationship was found.…

Among the findings was that the heterogeneous groups showed more change on the FIRO scale. Also, on rating scales measuring positive feeling towards group, the initial superiority of homogeneous groups was reduced by the end of the T group and that heterogeneous groups manifested more significant increases. (Author/CG)

Among the effects of trainers on their T Groups was that trainer empathy and security were related to liking for the trainer and perceived member learning. Trainer affection, tendencies to reward and punish, and openess showed no or little relationship to participant learning. (Author)

Eight key areas suggested for discussion by the APA and APGA as bases for formulation of ethical standards are: (1) leader qualifications; (2) limits on procedure; (3) confidentiality of group participants; (4) participant selection; (5) informed consent of participants; (6) freedom of client to withdraw; (7) safeguards for participants against…

In response to William Coulson's article in same issue, author expresses need to discover how to replicate reliably the potential of successful encounter process. He also feels that encounter should not become the prime focus of professional attention at the expense of other group counseling processes. (Author/CJ)