A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE IF EXPERIMENTAL COUNSELING PROCEDURES COULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN TRADITIONAL GROUP COUNSELING IN IMPROVING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, AND TO DETERMINE IF CHANGES FROM EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES WERE RELATED TO VARIATIONS IN ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVE. THE AUTHORS NOTED THAT TRADITIONAL COUNSELING TECHNIQUES HAVE NOT BEEN…

THIS RESEARCH EXAMINES THE DEGREE OF CONGRUENCE WHICH EXISTS BETWEEN COUNSELOR AND TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF GROUP COUNSELING. THIRTY COUNSELING GROUPS COMPOSED OF TEACHERS, SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS, SCHOOL COUNSELORS, SPEECH THERAPISTS, AND NURSES WERE FORMED, UTILIZING ALL INDIVIDUALS OTHER THAN TEACHERS AS GROUP LEADERS. TWO SERIES OF GROUP COUNSELING…

To assist students with formulating goals commensurate with their interests and abilities, a study incorporating planned testing and group counseling was conducted at a community college in the West. From the 325 students who were identified as deficient in basic skills as evidenced by previous college and high school records, GPA, and college…

Motivation Advance Process (MAP) is a small group process designed to increase achievement motivation through emphasizing the strengths and assets of each individual. The process requires skilled leadership to guide the participants towards a new and positive view of their lives. The purpose of this manual is to provide counselors with both…

This 15-hour training module is directed toward CETA counselors, interviewers, trainers, and related service deliverers whose client populations are youth, adolescents and young adults. The purpose of the program is to help trainees upgrade their small group skills. Group training experiences are based on the Personal Mastery Counseling approach.…

Previous research has shown that certain counseling methods, unlike behavioral counseling procedures, have been unsuccessful in improving the sociometric status of unpopular and uncooperative elementary students. This study attempted to assess the effectiveness of behavioral counseling. Forty elementary students were identified as unpopular and…

This study seeks to determine transfer students' perceptions of the college environment and to demonstrate a positive effect on their perceptions of the environmental press by means of a group-counseling procedure. Forty-six transfer students were given the College and University Environmental Scales, second edition (CUES II), which was designed…

This discussion entails some notions on the nature of creativity, the process of authentic risk-taking, and the person of the counselor in creating and taking risks. Technique is the impediment to creativity in counseling. The person who functions as an effective counselor functions from within, relying on the same resources from which flows…

This document presents a concise discussion of current thinking and practices in the area of group counseling in the schools. The material, divided into two sections is based on the discussion of a panel of counselor educators and practicing counselors. Part I consists of the discussion among the participants and Part II is composed of questions…

The experienced-based textbook on institutional issues for the group worker's training defines the current state of goals and methods of group work as it can apply to the institutional field. Following a discussion of institutions in modern society, social group work in institutions for children, unmarried mothers, handicapped children, juvenile…

Counselors working with developmental groups need: (1) a thorough understanding of their group, (2) great skill, and (3) deep personal involvement. The author suggests specific characteristics for successful developmental groups: (1) the desire of the entire residence hall staff to be involved, (2) a co-ed group limited to eight members, and (3)…

This study compared the effects of professional and subprofessional counselors using group insight and group desensitization techniques with high and low imagery arousal test anxious college students. Two professional and two subprofessional counselors met with groups of three students for five interviews to administer insight and desensitization…

This paper is an impressionistic appraisal of group counseling as a component of a coordinated approach to college level remediation. Counselors were assigned a group of students who were enrolled in Communication Skills, a course co-sponsored and team taught by the Departments of Compensatory Programs (Reading), English (Writing), and Speech…

This study examined the effects of a weekend marathon on the level of self-actualization of college students one and four weeks following their group experience. It also studied the relationship between ego strength and extent of change in self-actualization during a marathon. Generally, the group experience did increase self-actualization and the…

This three-part report covers a series of three workshops which were designed to provide an opportunity for practicing school counselors to improve present skills, to become familiar with new counseling strategies, and to increase proficiency in administering services they provide to their constituents. The first workshop focuses on individual…