A service delivery system with a group personal counseling emphasis is described, based on two years of experience at a university counseling center. After discussing the local background and rationale for this system, the practical logistics, the operational policies, and the group ground rules are presented. Utilization data are summarized: for example, 36% of all clients and 88% of clients with eight or more sessions were group members; groups typically grew to nine clients and had 60% attendance. Results for a self-report outcome survey of 128 participants are exemplified by the 95.1% who reported some level of improvement and the 92.2% who rated their psychologist "very" to "exceptionally effective." A variety of observations and conclusions are offered.

The Counseling Evaluation Inventory (CEI) was used to elicit information about the relationship between secondary school counselors with and without a practicum and their clients. The 167 counselors who volunteered for this study represented a 61 percent return. Analysis of variance procedures were used to test the difference between counselors with and without a practicum and to test the influence of age, teaching experience, counseling experience, and sex on these results. The results indicate that counselors with a practicum experience are rated significantly higher on the CEI than counselors without a practicum. When the factors of age, years of counseling experience, years of teaching experience, and sex were partialled out, client ratings of counselors with a practicum continued to be rated significantly higher than client ratings of counselors without a practicum.