174 selected failing students at Illinois Institute of Technology were provided group counseling as a condition of their remaining in school. The assumption of the psychodynamics of the non-achievement syndrome was made regarding these students and a group counseling approach (NAS therapy) derived from an approach delineated by Roth and Meyersburg seemed appropriate and was utilized. 52 male subjects in this population were randomly selected for study as were 52 probationary, noncounseled males who were used as a comparison group. The results indicated that the counseled group increased their CPA's significantly and that these changes held over time. The CPA's of the comparison group did not increase significantly. The differences were attributable to the counseling experience.A MAJ OR productive direction in which underachievement has been studied involves personality and motivational correlates rather than such variables as commuting time, sex, degree sought, use of time, and so forth. More significant, perhaps, is the implication that if personality variables could be identified, treatment approaches could be utilized to reverse maladaptive achievement behavior. It is no wonder, then, that treatment approaches
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