Three-quarters of the world come from collectivistic group-oriented cultures. As the world becomes more globalized it is inevitable that group counseling will be a major choice of healing and psychological intervention internationally. However, a review of scholarly articles from "The Journal for Specialists in Group Work" and…

The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs and the Association for Specialists in Group Work standards of practice require programs to provide both experiential and didactic training in group leadership skills. This article discusses methods traditionally used to meet these standards and the practical and ethical…

As online learning and pedagogy advances, more collegiate-level courses are being held in online environments. This article includes an illustration of such a course for school counselors, administrators, and mental health counselors who currently design and conduct counseling groups for school-aged children as well as suggestions for…

Presents a strategy for teaching group counseling skills to beginning group leaders in which leaders receive on-the-spot, unplanned feedback from an "assistant coach" (counselor educator) that seems to foster learning. Presents portions of an actual group counseling transcript. (Author/PVV)

The demographics in the United States are rapidly changing. Despite these well-documented shifts in ethnicity and race, there remain gaps in the research, practice, and training that address relevant multicultural issues in group counseling. This article addresses the challenges in incorporating multicultural issues in training group counselors,…

Focuses on the "here-and-now" interactional experience in group counseling, and elaborates on the importance of counselors preparing members for this dynamic to optimize active participation. Reviews norms of group behaviors and possible leader responses, process illumination methods, and preparation of a written guide for members. (PVV)

Suggestions for using group counseling techniques for clarifying and deepening the focus within a supervision group are described. Examples are provided from a supervision group of advanced group counseling students. Each student facilitated an ongoing group in settings ranging from schools to residential treatment. Clarifying and deepening rounds…

The American School Counselor Association has endorsed group work as an important component of school counseling programs, and research has demonstrated the effectiveness of group work in schools. Yet there is still considerable variation in practice of group work in schools. The type of group training preservice school counselors receive is an…

This article makes a case for teaching generic group competency skills (GCS) across the counselor education curriculum. After presenting their assumptions the authors will demonstrate the use of GCS in several counselor education courses and discuss teaching applications.

Training in group counseling typically includes an academic component, although little has been written about how to teach a group course except for what specific content should be included. This article suggests that while teaching group counseling courses, instructors can intentionally model effective group leader behaviors and use these…

An experiential compliment to didactic group work training has been a consistent feature of professional standards. Even so, diverse models have been proposed and debated. The uniqueness and importance of group work for school counselors demands an investment in experiential learning specific to the role of the school counselor. An experiential…

Outlines method of fostering self-exploration and group interaction among counselors-in-training. Describes lifeline process as having students draw horizontal line with dot at each end representing their birth and death, drawing dot to represent where they presently are on lifeline, and recording positive and negative experiences chronologically…

Effectively covering Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW) and Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) standards in a three-credit hour course is perhaps the greatest challenge in teaching group counseling. This study explores the use of an electronic course tool to deliver group theory, while using face-to-face class…