Assessed outcome in 10 British and American sensitivity training workshops in terms of reported self-benefit and benefit to one's relations with others not present. Found differing patterns of change between the two outcome variables, suggesting that they embody separate models of workshop learning processes. (Author/NB)

Discusses terminology of first and second phase learners, focusing on the disadvantages experienced by the latter. Examines teacher expectations, possible areas of difficulty for students, parental involvement, teacher sensitization, pedagogical aims of a course for these students, and bilingual factors as assets. (JK)

Describes the goals of a training program to reduce staff sexual anxiety in adolescent treatment programs. Describes specific guidelines regarding effective staff interventions at an individual and group level. Emphasizes alertness to the broad implications of sexuality in staff and patients and emphasizes necessity for careful monitoring of ward…

When counselor educators carefully design a group-counseling course that focuses on personal growth, an increase in self awareness on the part of counselors-in-training can occur, in addition to the acquisition of new counseling skills. This article describes such a course. (Author/HMV)

The Personal Growth Encountertapes are a program of interpersonal exercises for groups of eight to 10 persons. Instructions are presented on a set of audio-tape recordings, one for each of the 10 sessions. (Author)

The credibility of personal information selected by members of small groups to describe each other's characteristics and delivered to the members by the group leader without naming the source was studied. Positive feedback was rated by recipients as more credible, desirable, and as having more impact than negative feedback. (Author)

The educational innovator must determine the key "accepting" influence and promote the final acceptance of the "idea" through that source. (Author)

The purpose of this article is to discuss several new areas of opportunity for student personnel workers which are becoming available as a result of new developments in the human relations technology of education. (Author)

An experiment to test an encounter group assumption that touching increases interpersonal attraction was conducted. College women were randomly assigned to a touch or no-touch condition. A comparison of total evaluation scores verified the hypothesis: subjects who touched the accomplice perceived her as a more attractive person than those who did…

This study was an attempt to make counseling more amenable for this population by investigating the effects of one experimental treatment technique on black clients' perceptions of counselors. (Author)

Author examines the components of behavior that underlie success in management training. (Editor)

Discusses driver and human relations training for school bus drivers. A driver training program in California aims at reaching all 19,000 school bus drivers. A human relations training program in Seattle focuses on bettering student-driver and driver-administrator relations. (DN)

Describes a group process designed to bring into consciousness negative attitudes about race. Groups, directed by trained professionals, have been a catalyst in reducing racial tensions. (DM)

The workshop described here was designed to initiate skeptical school personnel to a form of sensitivity training, the T-group approach, while providing a safe and non-threatening atmosphere of exposure. (Authors)