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Basic Skills for Leadership of Counseling Groups
Author(s) -
PEARSON RICHARD E.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1981.tb01671.x
Subject(s) - psychology , set (abstract data type) , adaptation (eye) , skills management , medical education , group counseling , element (criminal law) , leadership , applied psychology , pedagogy , leadership style , social psychology , clinical psychology , computer science , medicine , neuroscience , political science , law , programming language
Basic skills training has emerged as an important element in educating counselors and other helping persons. Although the literature on small groups contains numerous schemata for describing and categorizing the behavior of group leaders, none was discovered which was specifically developed as a basis for systematic skill training in the leadership of counseling groups. The author identifies a set of basic group leadership skills to be used in a systematic skills training approach. The skills fall into two broad categories, teaching and group management. Definitions and examples of the skills are provided, and the author discusses adaptation of a microcounseling format for training in group leadership skills.