This study investigated the effects of combining Transactional Analysis and Gestalt therapy with group counseling for married couples. Six treatment couples and 12 control group members were pre/post administered the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale to assess changes in the level of their self-esteem. There were some significant results. (Author/JEL)

It is important that counselors facilitate development of group norms in which irresponsible behavior and failed commitments are confronted and in which rescuing is infrequent. The counselor must also monitor the group to be sure confrontations are given as caring behavior and not as an expression of anger, for punitive confrontation is…

Generally little emphasis is placed on the socioecological characteristics of groups. The Group Environment Scale (GES) provides a means to systematically consider environmental influences within groups. Various uses of GES are explained and a case example using the GES in a prison setting is presented. (Author)

When counselor educators carefully design a group-counseling course that focuses on personal growth, an increase in self awareness on the part of counselors-in-training can occur, in addition to the acquisition of new counseling skills. This article describes such a course. (Author/HMV)

Both process evaluation and task accomplishment evaluation are important. Six questions are submitted to guide goal-achievement evaluation: Are all members heard and valued? Beyond the ingroup? A shared common goal? Means and ends vitally related? Professional expertise and scholarship valued? Group work and personal leadership? (Author)

Presents a model for selection and training of group leaders. (Author)

Investigates the construct validity of the Hill Interaction Matrix--Form B, a 64-item instrument designed to assess preferred modes of interaction in group settings. A factor analysis was performed by using 134 subjects. Results indicate that the items and the conceptual format are appropriate. (Author)

The basic critical issue of groups is how they can provide their participants with the opportunity for personal growth. The qualifications and training of leaders, the selection of members, the kind of interaction among members, and the carry-over from group experience to individual meaning must all be examined. (Author/JEL)

Focus is on common forms of group resistance and ways of dealing with group resistance and ways of dealing with group resistance. When resistance is expected as a part of the therapeutic process, the counselor has less ego involvement in the resistance and is less likely to respond with countertransference. (Author)

The author feels how he handles a potential problem in his group counseling session when a new member "freaks out." (HMV)

Alternative group counseling is a process designed to focus on assisting group members in making decisions regarding what to do about their concerns and learning how to carry out those decisions. The process is conceptualized as an integration of several theoretical views of group counseling. (Author)

Students in an experimental group received peer-facilitator training twice each week for three weeks and a group leadership experience. Results fail to support the concept of peer-facilitator training and group leadership experience as a remedial technique with low-performing elementary school students. (Author)

Group counseling is defined. The values and individual goals of group counseling are discussed. The developmental self-concept approach is described in its three phases: phenomonological, analytical, and behavioristic. There is a brief description of group counseling skills and techniques. The steps in developing a group counseling program are…

This article presents a model for a three-hour semester course training group counselors. It was consensually planned by participants in "Small Group Discussion--The Training of Group Counselors" at the 1976 National Conference for the Teaching of Group: Theory and Practice. Three main parts are experience, theory, and survival. (Author/JEL)

In group work little attention is paid to the environmental influences upon members. The EAI-G provides a tool for gauging the campus impact upon group participants. (Author)