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Group Work in Counselor Education: A Decade of Growth
Author(s) -
DUNCAN JACK A.,
GUMAER JAMES
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.tb01672.x
Subject(s) - psychology , counselor education , group work , work (physics) , group counseling , higher education , medical education , experiential learning , pedagogy , clinical psychology , medicine , mechanical engineering , political science , law , engineering
This study was designed to assess the current status of group work preparation in counselor education programs. The authors sent a questionnaire to a 10% (N = 310) stratified random sample by state of the membership of the Association for Specialists in Group Work. Respondents provided demographic information that was compared with two similar studies conducted 10 years ago. The results showed that counselor education programs are providing more and broader didactic and experiential group work preparation for graduates who are gaining employment in diversified work settings. In addition, the respondents surveyed indicated an increase in females as group workers and a more “active‐instructive” role on the part of group counselors.