Abstract
The primary purpose of this study was to measure the comparative effects on paraprofessional group leaders who facilitated a Beginning Experience Workshop (BE), a group marathon workshop for divorce adjustment. Secondly, this study sought to replicate an earlier study (Byrne, in press) which measured the comparative effectiveness of the BE Workshop. Two experiments are described: in Experiment 1, BE Team Members (n=18) were compared to participants in a Support Workshop (n=21) and an Information Workshop (n=9); in Experiment 2, participants in a BE Workshop (n=11) were compared to participants in the Support and Information Workshops. A pretest, posttest, 10-week follow-up, quasi-experimental design was employed. The instruments included: 1. The Fisher Divorce Adjustment Scale (Fisher, 1978) 2. The Interpersonal Distance Measure (Engebretson, 1969) 3. A Personal Information Form The results indicated that the BE Team Members improved significantly more than participants in the Information Workshop. The results also indicated that the BE Workshop was significantly more effective than either the Support or information Workshops in facilitating divorce adjustment. Post hoc analysis indicated that participants in the BE Workshop improved significantly more than the BE Team Members. Additional findings which may be of interest to both researchers and clinicians are also reported.
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