Group Procedures in Guidance and Personnel Work

A comparison of individual and multiple counseling for test interpretation interviews.

“…Relatively few experimental studies have reported this comparison as their purpose (Bailey, 1955;Baymur & Patterson, 1960;Bilovsky, et al, 1953;Froehlich, 1958;Hewer, 1959). Hoyt (1955), and Hoyt and Moore (1960) support a belief in the potential of multiple counseling, but indicate the need for further comparisons of the group process with individual counseling in different settings and for various purposes. Wrenn (1960) suggests the desirability of identifying the distinctive values of each process, and Hewer (1959) points up the importance of including a comparable control group in the experimental design.…”