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

A group approach to vocational counseling is one way to help the students meet their needs. The secondary school counselors in an urban school system organized student groups. This report is an evaluation of the group vocational activity aimed at improving students' self-concepts and vocational maturity attitudes. (Author)

Investigates the pattern of clients' precounseling expectancies, whether these differ for male and female clients, and the relationship between clients' expected content emphasis and the actual emphasis during counseling sessions. (Author)

One of the most important contributions of choice awareness strategy is the evolution of a simple classification system involving five kinds of choices: caring, ruling, enjoying, sorrowing, and thinking/working (CREST). The author explains the classification system and how counselors can implement it. (Author/HMV)

The author describes her experiences running group counseling with nine ninth graders. The steps of her program are discussed. (EJT)

The author gives a week-by-week account of his training program for peer facilitators. (HMV)

The author describes a peer group model program in an inner-city elementary school of 350 students. The purpose of the program was to systematically train fifth-grade pupils to serve as peer helpers, who would model facilitative communication skills and positive behaviors in counseling groups. (Author)

The author presents a set of guidelines for peer group work that he has developed from appropriate references in the 1974 APGA Ethical Standards and through his own experience, professional judgement and discretion. (Author)

Describes the counselor's role in a remedial college program where group counseling is an important component of the Communication Skills program. (HMV)

Corporate and educational settings increasingly require decision making, problem solving and other complex cognitive skills to handle ill-structured, or heuristic, tasks, but the growing need for heuristic task expertise has outpaced the refinement of task analysis methods for heuristic expertise. The Heuristic Task Analysis (HTA) Method was…

The present Beat the Blues Program is based in a cognitive-behavioral model. It has been developed as an 8-module group treatment program for 8-10 participants and is usually run over 8 weeks. Each module focuses on aspects of the model and provides exercises, strategies, and techniques for understanding and dealing with depression and anxiety.…

This review evaluates the efficacy of group treatment for nonoffending caregivers of children who have been sexually abused. A review of the literature focused on the significance of family support and involvement in treatment of sexual abuse, the importance of support groups for parents whose children have been sexually abused, and the efficacy…

The purpose of this study was to asses the relative effects of two different group approaches to counseling and a placebo on measures of self-concept, interpersonal relationships, and school adjustment. (Editor)

The counselor is important for effective functioning of a group. Many interactions evolve from his presence and the client's subsequent struggles to be dependent and independent. The various phases in this sturggle are explained as is their relation to Freudian theory. (EK)

Structured, short-term group counseling resulted in vocational choices for 14 of 17 college freshmen who had declared themselves undecided. (Author)