Describes issues that group counselors might face as they attempt to provide services for multicultural and diverse populations. Strategies and recommendations for leading culturally diverse counseling groups are highlighted. (Author)

Describes a group for counselors, often reluctant to seek personal counseling, as one format for practicing counselors to enhance their own emotional health. Issues specific to a counselors' group, such as confidentiality, trust and dual relationships, roles, resistance and fears, ethical dilemmas, and some negative events, are examined. (JBJ)

Describes a group-counseling approach to teaching elementary school students social skills designed to reduce their use of aggressive behaviors in the school environment. Eight sessions are described that have activities designed to influence the affective and behavioral components of these behaviors. Several suggestions are described to assess…

Provides information on traumatic brain injury (TBI) and suggestions for integrating individuals with TBI into the group process through the use of four specific group counseling strategies: (1) pregroup orientation; (2) a "here-and-now" approach; (3) group exercises; and (4) follow-up and referral services. (LKS)

Presents a time-limited support group intervention. The model, based on the notion that children of divorce frequently encounter specific divorce-engendered stresses during and after a divorce, focuses on commonly occurring stressors, normalizes children's reactions to them, acknowledges and articulates painful feelings, and offers coping…

Modification mitigates negative feedback by immediately attempting to improve the feedback's level of acceptability. This article introduces modification as a group-leader skill necessary for the processing of messages containing both counterproductive and productive elements. Describes the value and application of modification in group work. (RJM)

Discusses bereavement and mourning and reviews group applications for the resolution of uncomplicated grief. Presents studies that describe grief experiences of suicide survivors and community reaction to survivors. Argues that a structured group experience, where support is provided by other survivors, gives optimal help to people bereaved by…

Eighteen mothers of children with severe disabilities participated in classes led by a counselor on topics relating to cognitive processes associated with guilt and self-blame. Results showed significant reductions in measures of guilt, negative automatic thoughts, internal negative attributions, and depression, compared to control group mothers.…

Discusses group counseling with Asian clients and the need for counselors to become familiar with specific cultural issues and methods of enhancing therapeutic outcomes for individuals of Asian heritage. Examines issues of counselor self-exploration, client orientation, group composition, rapport building, group orientation, and group…

The article examines the value of support groups for siblings of children with disabilities, discusses their implementation and evaluation, and proposes activities for six sessions of a sibling group. (DB)

Presents recent investigations and reports related to group psychotherapy in cancer patients' treatment. Describes primary characteristics and results of studies examining evidence of therapeutic factors, psychosocial support groups, women's adjustment to mastectomies, training in stress management and coping skills, pain and mood disturbance, and…

Contingency contracting and group counseling were provided to 26 mildly to moderately handicapped middle school students with high rates of truancy. Subjects exhibited attendance gains after treatment; gains were not maintained at followup but attendance rates were still higher than the rates of control students. Measures of academic performance…

Contends that students who have been referred by teachers for behavioral problems, lack of social skills, or poor academic performance should be interviewed by school counselors and invited to join new group being formed to develop and practice friendship skills. Discusses how to organize such a group, and presents 15 group steps. (NB)

Utilizes action research to examine if group counseling effectively decreases problem severity for at-risk high school students. Results indicate that students reported a significant reduction in problem severity upon termination of the counseling groups and that female students experienced meaningful changes in attitudes and in their relationship…

Examines the development and provision of mental health services targeting gay and bisexual college students from the perspective of an openly gay male social work intern working in a counseling service at a major urban university. Issues surrounding AIDS and homophobia are addressed, as well as clinical observations from individual counseling and…