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Endorsement of Growth Factors in Experiential Training Groups
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Kiweewa, John; Gilbride, Dennis; Luke, Melissa; Seward, Derek – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2013
The purpose of this study was to identify student growth factors during a semester long Master's level group counseling class. Results indicated that 12 growth factors accounted for 86% of the total number of critical incidents that participants reported as influencing their personal growth and awareness during the group experience. Two other…
Descriptors: Group Experience, Counselor Training, Group Counseling, Experiential Learning
A Multicultural Personal Growth Group as a Pedagogical Strategy with Graduate Counseling Students
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Johnson, Jennifer M.; Lambie, Glenn W. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
The present study investigated a six-week multicultural personal growth group as a pedagogical strategy to support first-year graduate counseling students' (N = 20) levels of ethnic identity development (Phinney & Ong, 2007) and social-cognitive maturity (Hy & Loevinger, 1996). Students' levels of ethnic identity and social-cognitive development…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Cognitive Development, Group Experience, Counselor Training
The Effects of Two Group Approaches on Counseling Students' Empathy Development, Group Leader Self-Efficacy Development, and Experience of the Therapeutic Factors
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Ohrt, Jonathan H. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Counselor education programs accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) require their students to participate in a group experience as a member for 10 clock hours over the course of an academic term (CACREP, 2009). In addition, the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW) recommends…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Emotional Experience, Therapy, Self Efficacy
Using Personal Growth Groups in Multicultural Counseling Courses to Foster Students' Ethnic Identity Development
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Rowell, P. Clay; Benshoff, James M. – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2008
This study was designed to examine the relationship between personal growth group (PGG) experiences in multicultural counseling courses and counseling students' ethnic identity development. Differences in ethnic identity development were compared between counseling students who participated in a PGG experience as part of a multicultural counseling…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Individual Development, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism
Laboratory Outcomes of Personal Growth Groups.
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Dobson, Judith E.; Campbell, N. Jo – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1986
Counselor candidates' self-reports indicated increased personal mastery immediately after a required laboratory group experience in personal growth. Gains were retained in a 2-month follow-up. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling, Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Training, Graduate Students
Self-Actualizing: Myth or Reality?
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Butler, Robert R. – Group and Organization Studies, 1977
The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) was used to assess the impact of a semester-long encounter-group, personal-growth experience on students seeking degrees in counseling. Both the experimental and control groups showed gains in self-actualization. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Counselor Training, Group Experience, Individual Development
Growth Groups and the Personal Orientation Inventory
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Ritter, Kathleen Y. – Group and Organization Studies, 1977
The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) is frequently used to measure changes that have occurred in participants as a result of an encounter- or growth-group experience. The pseudo-self-actualizing tendency of counseling students is explored, and rationale is presented as to why the POI should be used with other instruments. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Counselor Training, Group Counseling, Group Experience
Graduate Students in Counseling and Guidance Perception of a Basic Course in Human Relations: One or Two or Three Years Later.
McMullan, Ronald; And Others – 1973
It was the purpose of this investigation to ascertain and evaluate the response of graduate students in Counselor Education and Rehabilitation Counseling to their experiences in an introductory course in Human Relations. This course was an integral part of their counselor preparation program. We wished to consider the implications of these student…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Course Evaluation, Graduate Students, Group Experience
Group Counseling for Counselor Candidates: The Group Log.
DeEsch, Jesse B. – 1979
This article describes the use of a Group Log to evaluate the personal growth experienced and group skills learned in group counseling in which the counselor-in-training writes a Group Log for each group experience. The evaluation criteria of the log are presented in terms of therapeutic forces and group dynamics observed, self-awareness…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Diaries, Graduate Students, Group Counseling
Wilderness Road.
Loughmiller, Campbell – 1965
The benefits of outdoor camping for disturbed boys whose difficulties require treatment outside the home are described. The variety of emotional handicaps handled by group technique and direct experience with natural surroundings at Camp Woodland Springs outside of Dallas, Texas, and the reactions of the boys participating in this residential…
Descriptors: Camping, Counselor Qualifications, Counselor Role, Counselor Training