58th Annual Conference

Presenters:

Lynda Bockewitz, B.S., Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi

Diane Boudreaux-Kraft, M.S., Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi

Joseph W. Kastner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi

Robert E. O’Bannon, Ph.D., Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi

This study concerns the empirical evaluation of a well-accepted developmental model of adolescent groups. Participants will become familiar with a model of adolescent groups, a reliable measure of adolescent group process, and will be presented data from a project concerning the validations of the five-phase model of adolescent group development.

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