Jim Gumaer

Training group leaders in ethical decision making

Abstract The authors describe a method for training group leaders in ethical decision making using ASGWs ethical guidelines, case vignettes, and Carkhuffs three goals of helping.

Group Workers' Perceptions of Ethical and Unethical Behavior of Group Leaders.

Abstract In this article the authors report the results of a random survey of members of the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW), in which their perceptions of the behavior of group leaders was evaluated as being ethical or unethical.

Group workers' perceptions of their philosophical ethical beliefs and actual ethical practices

Abstract This article reports the results of a random survey of the ASGW membership regarding ethical practices and standards for group workers.

Ethics and the experts: Insight into critical incidents

Abstract The author surveyed 12 group experts who each described and analyzed one critical group work incident involving an ethical decision. This article summarizes the survey findings.

Peer-Facilitator Training and Group Leadership Experiences with Low-Performing Elementary School Students

A total of 64 low-performing fifth-grade students from each of four elementary schools were assigned to treatment and control groups through a stratified random sampling procedure. Students in the experimental group received peer-facilitator training twice each week for three weeks and a group leadership experience. All students were pretested and posttested on six criterion measures which examined attitudes toward school, selfesteem, class social status, classroom behavior, classroom performance, and school attendance. Differences between sexes of student participants and counselor effect were also examined.