A survey of programs of professional preparation for group counseling

Five models for using the experiential group in the preparation of group counselors

“…Second only to the lecture and class discussion, Huhn et al (1985) found that 80% of counselor educators used some form of personal growth experience in the training of group counselors. This finding is comparable to the finding of this study that 88% of counselor educators employ the personal growth group or experiential group (Models 2A, 2B, 3A, and 3B) in the training of their master'slevel students.…”

“…The instrument used in this study constituted a significant expansion of the initial questionnaire used to survey the nine counselor education programs in the Rocky Mountain region (Merta & Sisson, 1991) and was modeled in part on the questionnaire used by Huhn, Zimpfer, Waltman, and Williamson (1985) in their survey of college and university programs for the preparation of group counselors. The questionnaire consists of 76 items that are categorized into the following parts: (I) group counseling instructor and the academic unit; (11) group counseling coursework; (111) ethical and professional concerns, training components, and teaching methods; (IV) training model in use (no experiential group, instructor-free experiential group, or instructor-related experiential group); and (V) features of an experiential group.…”

Simulated group counseling: An experiential training model for group work

“…Therefore, although group membership is strongly encouraged as a component of group work training, it is not surprising that didactic and other in-class activities are more common in graduate counselor education programs compared to an actual group experience for students (Huhn, Zimpfer, Waltman, & Williamson, 1985;Merta, Johnson, & McNeil, 1995;Merta et al, 1993).…”