A second study of the effects of one year's training on 20 MA students in Confluent Education again showed significant increases in scores measuring Affective Bias, Personal Growth Orientation, and general humanistic Instructional Values; whereas similar measures of 20 MA students in Counseling Psychology did not and were scored significantly lower than the other group both before and after training.
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