Group Leader Development: Effects of Personal Growth and Psychoeducational Groups

Teaching Group Work With The Great Debaters

“…This was done to assess the effect of participation in the course as a whole in a similar manner to Hayes et al () and to provide further reliability evidence. It was anticipated that participants' scores between the baseline and final administration should be higher, in keeping with findings reported by Page et al () and Ohrt, Robinson, and Hagedorn (), in which students' GLSI scores increased over the course of a semester‐long class in group work. Additional administrations were not used to minimize testing effects on the results.…”

“…Page et al () demonstrated discriminant validity by correlating GLSI scores with measures of anxiety as well as neuroticism, extroversion, and openness to experience; no significant relationships were reported (Page et al, ). Predictive validity evidence was reported by Ohrt et al () in terms of the significant increase of participants' GLSI scores during a semester‐long class in group work. For the present study, no significant relationships (in the form of Pearson product‐moment correlations) were found between GLSI scores and participants' age, length of time in their master's program, number of courses taken, and ethnoracial identification.…”

“…The original developers reported sound psychometric properties for this instrument, including a unitary factor structure, a Cronbach's internal consistency estimate of α = .95 ( n = 55), and a 2‐week test–retest reliability estimate of .72 ( n = 41; Page et al, ). Ohrt et al () reported a Cronbach's alpha for the GLSI of .96 ( n = 74). The Cronbach's internal consistency estimates for the present study ( n = 14) were α = .98, .96, and .95 across the three administrations, respectively.…”

A Preliminary Comparison of Online and Face-to-Face Process Groups

“…Yalom and Leszcz (2005) emphasize the importance of experiential learning for students in that it promotes self-awareness, personal growth, and a greater understanding of vulnerability and self-disclosure. A myriad of literature supports the notion that counselors-in-training greatly benefit from this experience in a variety of ways as data have shown: increased self-awareness (Ieva et al, 2009), increased empathy for the struggles of clients (Ohrt et al, 2014), increased interpersonal awareness and relational insight (Kline, Falbaum, Pope, Hargraves, & Hundley, 1997, Ohrt et al, 2014, increased learning of intrapersonal work, and showed increased self-efficacy related to leading groups (Ohrt, Robinson, & Hagedorn, 2013).…”

Teaching Online Group Counseling Skills in an On-Campus Group Counseling Course

“…Supervision and journaling through the experiential components are critical to the growth experiences (Luke & Kiweewa, 2010;Steen et al, 2014). A combination of didactic, observation, experiential and supervision strategies are most effective in a group counseling training course (Riva & Korinek, 2004;Ohrt et al, 2013). As such, this amalgamation was used to incorporate online group counseling into the semester curriculum discussed in this article.…”