Group work trainees have benefited from experiential instructional methods that allow them to participate in actual group experiences. The reflecting team process can serve as one such instructional method. It provides an experiential component that allows group work students to participate in actual group experiences, with particular focus on…

Although it is clear that parental incarceration has adverse effects on children, there is limited information about effective services for helping this population. With an increase in the number of parents of minor children in jail, there is a need for schools to assist affected students in a structured and comprehensive manner. The purpose of…

Because the community lacked counseling services for whole families experiencing separation and divorce, The Boomerang Bunch was conceived, designed and implemented by six school counselors to identify and therapeutically address changes impacting the participant families as they attempted to "bounce back" from separation and divorce.…

Students in Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs (DAEPs) have a variety of behavior problems. School counselors in DAEPs have the opportunity to address emotional, academic, social, and behavioral concerns of these students. Counselors may use the strengths-based wellness paradigm as an alternative method of addressing students' holistic…

Analyses of the efficacy of group psychotherapy indicate that group therapy demonstrates, in a majority of reviews, significant improvement over inert comparison groups and proves comparable or superior to other active treatment conditions. Because group therapy is a viable cost-efficient treatment option being used with increasing regularity…

Due to ongoing changes in the labor market, groups that assist people in developing or changing career directions are particularly important. This digest outlines some features of employment group counseling. Research has shown that the unemployed face numerous factors, such as job rejections and financial pressures, that can hinder the job…

This book is intended to serve as a primary resource in traditional courses in group counseling. Chapter 1 discusses the rationale for using group counseling and chapter 2 reviews the history of group counseling. In chapter 3, the two authors explain their theories of group counseling, one a group-centered theory and one an eclectic approach.…

This practicum was designed to assist high school seniors who had not made decisions about what they would do after graduation. A series of group and individual guidance experiences was developed to provide students with self-knowledge, and knowledge about the options available to them, in order to provide them with the means to develop a plan of…

This group leadership training and supervision manual is designed to teach group leadership skills to school counselors, specialists, and classroom teachers who serve as group leaders in the Adolescent Group Counseling in Schools program. The project overview describes a generic group counseling program for students in fifth through twelfth…

This study was concerned with determining whether short-term groups oriented toward self-awareness are capable of producing changes in the participants' ability to manage their own feelings of anxiety and to develop more functional self-perceptions in the area of their cognitive processes, emotional reactions, and physical attributes. (Author)

A preparatory method for clarifying individual expectations of group counseling and therapy was developed. The preparatory method developed was a 17-minute motion picture film entitled Groups. Results indicate that the film was effective in reducing the number of unclarified expectations these subjects had about group counseling and therapy.…

This paper presents the results of a study of drug-related cases seen by school counselors in four types of schools during a four month period. Although there were differences between school types in treatment approaches, those most often used were individual rather than group-oriented. (Author)

Describes a counseling program in a junior high school in Washington, D.C., that had students from practically every continent of the world with a particularily large Spanish-speaking population. The article explains steps taken to orientate these students. (Author/HMV)

Several nonverbal behaviors of helpers in a small group were tallied and related to independent judgments of the helper made by observers and the person being helped. The low but significant correlations suggest that nonverbal behaviors are but one set of cues that lead to clients' first impressions of their helpers. (Author)

Compared effects of six sessions of group counseling of nine chronic home hemodialysis patients with a comparable no treatment control group. Comparisons revealed no significant differences between groups. Subsequent testing a year later suggested that hemodialysis patients use the defensive mechanism of denial in adapting to their condition.…