Describes a group counseling effort at Queens College of CUNY aimed at helping liberal arts majors examine individual interests, define career goals, and explore vocational opportunities. (Author/HMV)

This paper reviewed the studies which evaluated counseling groups in senior high school settings. A methodological evaluation was conducted within four areas: subjects, counselors, treatment, and outcome criteria. Overall, behavioral and directive groups achieved greater success than nondirective or client-centered groups. (Author)

Explains the basic philosophy of Personal Mastery Counseling and how this counseling approach differs from other types of counseling. (HMV)

The author provides a model designed to identify the flow of events that occur in sequence and cycles during the life of a counseling group. The purpose of the article is to provide the group leader with a series of intervention techniques designed to facilitate that process. (Author)

An exploratory group-treatment program using stress-management and interpersonal-skills training was developed to reduce job-interview stress and provide relevant skills to welfare-rehabilitation clients. Results yielded a significant relative superiority in interview assertiveness for treatment clients; however, no differential decrease in…

This paper focuses on the selection, training, and monitoring of the small group leaders in an extensive program of sex education. It discusses leadership screening, early orientation, small group training sessions, practice leadership, supervision, evaluation, and problem solution in this highly sensitive area of sexuality. (Author)

Activity group guidance is a method that may help counselors bring new vitality into their schools by integrating the affective and the cognitive and by helping students learn by doing. (Author)

Marriage and family enrichment is the new professional area in the applied family field. Its distinction is the limitation to groups of normal married couples and families, in informal settings, using experimental methods. A major recommendation is for a differentiating theoretical base to be established. (Author)

Describes a short vocational program designed for eight underachieving junior secondary students who were being seen in a group counseling setting. (Author)

An alternative to individual counseling is marriage and family counseling. It is the preferred mode of treatment for all but the social isolate. The specific methods by which persons avoid healthy contacts are discussed, as are counseling methodologies which are based on Gestalt and family systems theory. (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)

There has been little research on the effectiveness of behavior modification with groups. This controlled study done in an agency setting found the behavioral model to be an effective method of treating groups of clients with a wide variety of problems. (Author)

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)

Presents a theoretical foundation for the use of structured exercises in group counseling with a discussion of implications for practice. (Author)