Postgraduate research students have poorer mental health than the general community. Improving their experiences of diversity, inclusion, and belonging at university may bolster their overall wellbeing and reduce poor mental health outcomes. The aim was to explore postgraduate research students' views on diversity, inclusion, and belonging, to…

This article looks at one possible approach to addressing student teacher's improved understanding of, sensitivity toward and comfort levels in working with special-needs individuals.

Warns of the possible dangers of encounter groups. (JF)

It is proposed that this culture alleviates basic personal and group anxieties by offering defensive satisfactions. Strong social norms and the technical designing" of the staff tend to maintain an artificially united community," benevolently ruled. Also suggested is that Bethel culture serves to preserve American society from internal and…

Describes the development of a laboratory training program with unusual promise for social change in the Dominican Republic. (AN)

Discusses the use of laboratory training for organizational development of school faculties and staffs. (JF)

A series of human relations laboratories was held for the administrators, faculty, and staff of the Dallas County Junior College District (Texas). Formed into T groups, the participants concentrated on developing relationships with people in authority and with those regarded as different." (JO)

To learn if the experience of small group democracy in a training laboratory generalizes to the more broadly theoretical issues of ideology, a before and after experimental design was utilized at a college training laboratory to gather more direct information. Results showed highly significant shifts in democratic directions on each of four scales…

NASA Research Paper No. 20 (Grants NsG-237-62, Supplement 2, and NGR-05-007-090).

Through the YMCAs in the United States, more than 7,000 teen agers have participated in sensitivity training experiences. Interactional programs using sensitivity training with teen agers have been introduced, and the results are sufficiently positive in the YMCA to warrant wider exploration with this type of program for young people. (Author)

The results of this study show that laboratory training facilitates constructive process change in the anxiety expression of individuals who are receiving individual personal counseling for anxiety reduction. (Author)