Maria T. Riva

Handbook of group counseling and psychotherapy

Handbook of group counseling and psychotherapy , Handbook of group counseling and psychotherapy , کتابخانه دیجیتالی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی و خدمات درمانی شهید بهشتی

Teaching Group Work: Modeling Group Leader and Member Behaviors in the Classroom to Demonstrate Group Theory

Training in group counseling typically includes an academic component, although little has been written about how to teach a group course except for what specific content should be included. This article suggests that while teaching group counseling courses, instructors can intentionally model effective group leader behaviors and use these behaviors and the students’ responses to them as powerful ways to augment the didactic material being taught about group dynamics and theory. Specific techniques and examples are included along with a discussion of the ethical implications of developing a task or training group component within a group counseling course.

Looking into the Future of Group Research: Where do We Go From Here?.

Abstract This article discusses future directions for group counseling research and encourages a stronger collaboration between practitioners and researchers as a way to strengthen group research.

Selection practices of group leaders: A national survey

Abstract This study surveyed the selection practices of group leaders. The study explored methods of selection, variables used to make selection decisions, and the types of selection errors that leaders have experienced. The results suggest that group leaders use clinical judgment to make selection decisions and endorse using some specific variables in selection, and that selection errors can have a detrimental effect on the selected member, the group, and the leader. Suggestions on ways that these selection errors might have been prevented are also reported.

A Broad View of Education and Training

This reaction responds to the three core articles in the Major Contribution in the September 2005issue of The Counseling Psychologist regarding (a) how counseling psychology programs fit within academic structures, (b) how our training models relate to student and faculty outcomes, and (c) how much progress has been made toward increasing the diversity of our faculty. The authors (a director/internship director in a university counseling center and a training director of a counseling psychology program) share a belief in the continued need for teachers and trainers in counseling psychology to work together, not only within departments and colleges but across campuses and throughout the field. The importance of collaboration between graduate programs and college counseling centers is highlighted, and support for a closer fit with colleges of education is stressed, along with a commitment to children and adolescents. This Major Contribution will hopefully reinvigorate other cooperative efforts.