Discusses the evolution of a group therapy protocol for adult survivors of incest and the theoretical model on which it is based, the learned helplessness model of depression. Learned helplessness theory supports the assumption that victims internalize trauma. Group activities were aimed at changing negative self-beliefs and at providing…

Gives brief overview of multicultural theory (racial identity development, counselor racial consciousness development, and implications) and practice (specific multicultural issues and techniques) that could be included in a group leader training course. Includes a section providing some general suggestions for instructors teaching students to…

Discusses how group counseling professionals can best serve Native Americans using traditional Native American healing and spirituality. Highlights implications for counseling and development professionals. Discusses Native Americans' background, relationship with the federal government, regional considerations, psychological and sociological…

Recommends that counselors familiarize themselves with symptoms of sexual abuse survivors to assist such clients with disclosure. Notes need for counselors to have special sensitivity to provide safe environment in which survivors can examine the impact of abuse on their lives, explore their feelings, and resolve the trauma. Recommends eclectic…

Describes one public high school's structured group program involving students and staff in collaborative efforts to address problems affecting students and their success in school. Explains group functioning and types and presents guidelines for structured groups. Discusses benefits of structured groups to the counseling process. (NB)

Presents descriptive data collected during 1988-89 academic year from three adult children of alcoholics groups offered by a university counseling center. Describes group members, structured group activities, and recommendations for therapy groups for young adult children of alcoholics. (Author/NB)

Presents interview with Walter Lifton in which Lifton is questioned about his contributions to counseling and, in particular, about some of his contributions to programs for children and young adolescents. Lifton describes some of his pioneering efforts in working with elementary-aged children and his work with groups and group counseling with…

Examines the ethical and professional dilemma encountered by counselor educators when deciding on the most effective way to use an experiential group in their counselor education program, identifies alternatives to and modifications of the traditional experiential group, and proposes recommendations for using an experiential group. (NB)

Describes Job Link, a group employment counseling program for counseling immigrants, and materials that were developed for the project. Also discussed are the results of a program evaluation suggesting that the program was relatively successful in placing immigrants in jobs or in further training. Suggests implications for employment counseling…

Introduces Islamic values relevant to group work and delineates their potential positive and negative impacts on groups. First section orients reader to relevant terminology and demographics, and identifies values. Discusses more specific Islamic principles and rituals as they relate to counseling groups. Presents practical applications for…

Examined group participant interpersonal style, group development stage, and endorsement of therapeutic factors. Classified critical incidents forms completed by 36 growth-group members. More affiliative participants emphasized cognitive factors; nonaffiliative participants emphasized behavioral factors. Universality and hope decreased and…

Presents fundamental principles of short-term psychotherapy in reference to psychotic patients. Emphasizes empirical hermeneutical research into group process within the phenomenological approach. Presents case study of short-term psychotherapy with psychotic patients. Outlines four-stage approach to short-term therapy. (Author/ABL)

Examines creation of gay affirmative group model that focuses on unique social, developmental, and psychoeducational needs of lesbian and gay clients who attend psychiatric day treatment. Discusses how these clients' psychosocial potential can be maximized in group that addresses issues related to their sexual orientation including their double…

Focuses on the role of splitting and projective identification as active dynamics in the development and maintenance of cultural and racial prejudice. Illustrates ways in which attention to splitting and projective identification in the group setting can decrease prejudice and promote community building. (Author)

Evaluates whether women participating in a career group designed to increase career-related self-efficacy would make gains on career decision-making self-efficacy and vocational exploration and commitment compared with women in a control group. Results indicate that women in the treatment group improved on career decision-making self-efficacy and…