Approximately 39-49% of college students have experienced grief due to death in the past 24 months. Students' grief is often complicated due to the nature of their developmental characteristics (e.g., searching for autonomy, identity development, career direction, academic pressure, and formation of intimate relationships). Group mindfulness-based…

This article presents the Achieving Success Everyday (ASE) group counseling model, which is designed to help school counselors integrate students' academic and personal-social development into their group work. We first describe this group model in detail and then offer one case example of a middle school counselor using the ASE model to conduct a…

Describes a personal growth group format involving ten weekly sessions for a maximum of ten people per group based on Adlerian premises. Assessment plus directions for further research are provided. (Author/BH)

Describes the circle group, a highly structured approach used to explore a theme for problem solving, personal growth, and teaching a specific personal growth system. The circle group is recommended for people who are basically mentally healthy. It may include group chanting, sharing of concerns and feedback. (JAC)

Describes a structured group activity that helps to achieve the developmental tasks in the initial stages of counseling and therapy groups. Participants make two signs to portray the individual's positive attributes or negative attributes. Describes the activity's purpose, requirements, setting, and discusses the group process. (Author/JAC)

Describes a workshop providing tools for self-confrontation and for acquiring self-help methods of making the desired changes in participants' daily lives. Many participants came to the realization that they are not passive victims of life, that they do make choices, and that they shape their lives by those choices. (Author/BEF)

Describes personal growth group processes from a Jungian perspective. Assumes a conceptual framework for personal growth groups that uses constructs from Jung's theory of the individuation process in the first half of life (approximately before age 40). A 3-stage theory, with 18 testable hypotheses is proposed. (JBJ)

Describes a course developed to use the growing popularity of adult education in order to serve a population that would not ordinarily seek counseling. Discusses the group experience and speculates on why the therapeutic experience occurred. (Author/ABB)

Examines the issues surrounding counseling students' participation in personal growth groups and describes a model that maximizes student's experiential participation while safeguarding their right to privacy and informed consent. Addresses important ethical issues that arise when an instructor is also a group leader, and other issues of concern.…

Describes a group counseling program with four basic goals: (1) to provide a comfortable atmosphere for college women to discuss sexual issues and concerns; (2) to provide understanding of the physical aspects of female sexual functioning; (3) to confront attitudes and myths; and (4) to encourage a positive self-concept. (Author/RC)

Describes procedures to structure a personal growth group based on the dynamics of Movement Exploration. A synthesis of client-centered and Gestalt approaches provides a theoretical framework for this methodology. Outlines procedures for group leaders working in this developmentally oriented area of group counseling. (Author/JAC)

Describes a group for counselors, often reluctant to seek personal counseling, as one format for practicing counselors to enhance their own emotional health. Issues specific to a counselors' group, such as confidentiality, trust and dual relationships, roles, resistance and fears, ethical dilemmas, and some negative events, are examined. (JBJ)