Counseling psychologists operating in schools have become increasingly interested in group counseling. Accompanying this interest, however, is an appalling lack of experimental evidence to support training practices, utilization of staff, and the application of therapeutic techniques in groups (Ohlsen, Proff & Roeber, 1956). These conditions, combined with an interest in gifted youth, led several of us at the University of Illinois to undertake a longrange project to investigate the application of group counseling 3 in treating gifted youth. The present paper is a partial report of a study growing out of the first phase of this project. It is concerned with the extent to which group counseling improves the mental health and academic J Thii study was conducted in Evanston Township High School.

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The scarcity of research on the nature of the group counseling process 2 stands in sharp contrast to the high interest and widespread application of the method.The present study reports the development and evaluation of a method for the quantification of psychotherapeutic interaction in counseling groups which was designed to meet these criteria: (a) the method should be specifically designed for the study of therapeutic group interaction; (b) it should represent no particular theoretical position concerning therapeutic treatment, making possible the relatively objective comparison of various therapeutic procedures; (c) it should provide for the categorization of both verbal and nonverbal behavior; (d) it should provide for the categorization of client and counselor behavior and for the behavior of clients acting as counselors; (e) the frame of reference of the observers should be relatively naive, avoiding the need for 'We are grateful to the staff and students of Evanston Township High School and in particular to

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