The effectiveness of an interpersonal communication skills workshop

Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-57)The purpose of this investigation was to present an Interpersonal\ud Communication Skills Workshop (ICS Workshop) to adults devised to\ud promote positive communication by the instruction of both communication\ud skills and awareness skills. It was hypothesized that adults who\ud participated in the training program would perceive the level of\ud communication to be higher in their dyadic-partner as measured by the\ud Interpersonal Communication Satisfaction Inventory (com-sat inventory)\ud than their pretest scores as compared with pretest-posttest Control\ud group scores (those placed on a waiting list). The training program \ud consisted of an orientation meeting, four training sessions,\ud conclusing with an evaluation meeting. Participants were instructed\ud in understanding the patterns of communication and the rules by which\ud their interpersonal relationships operate. Communication skills and\ud related exercises were introduced as an effective change agent to\ud disrupt rigid communication patterns.\ud Ths study employed a ???pretest-posttest control group??? design.\ud Fifteen adult women participated in either an experimental or control\ud group. Eight experimental subjects attended the first ICS Workshop,\ud with seven placed on a waiting list and participated in a second\ud ICS Workshop at a later date. The t-Test for Related Measures was\ud used to determine the effects of the ICS Workshop. Analyses of the\ud data did not find statistically significant differences to support\ud the effects of treatment