ABRAHAM MASLOW'S THEORY OF SELF-ACTUALIZATION APPLIED TO THE SENSITIVITY TRAINING GROUP
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Since the early 1900's, the period in which "the first book on group psychotherapy" (Moreno, Z. T., 1966, p. 32) was published, Application of the Group Method to Classification (Moreno, J. L., 1932), and group psychotherapy became an organized movement in the United States, objectives of therapy have spiraled into a multitude of new purposes for which sensitivity groups have been formed. There seems to be two basic trends which have developed as a result: training directed towards improving group members' interactional awareness, and training for the purpose of expanding the group member's potential for experiencing and expression.
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