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Of the currently limited available data on the mental health of students in Ireland the most notable are provided in the College Lifestyle and Attitudinal National (CLAN) Survey (Hope, Dring, & Dring, 2005). Recently, Houghton et al. (2012) found among students at an Irish university that women reported significantly higher levels of symptomatology than men on each of the three 6-item subscales of the Brief Symptom Inventory 18 (BSI 18; Derogatis, 2001) (anxiety, depression, and somatization) and the Global Severity Index (GSI; summed total of the 18 items). Similarly, final-year students had significantly worse mental health than non-final-year students. Internal reliability, construct validity, and factor structure of the BSI 18, were reported but no data on the test-retest reliability of the measure. Our aim was to supplement these findings by reporting on the test-retest reliability of the BSI 18 in a small sample of Irish college students.

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This study was designed to investigate the outcomes of a personal growth group. Ten trainee counsellors and a matched control group participated in the investigation. Subjects' attitudes and levels of self-esteem were measured by the semantic dafferential scale and the Rosenberg self-esteem scale respectively. Both instruments were administered before and after the personal growth training. On completion of the training course the trainee counsellors were mailed a questionnaire asking "What does personal growth mean to you now?". Results indicated that the trainee counsellors' levels of self esteem and attitudes on some of the semantic dafferential concepts changed significantly. However, no evidence of a significant inter-group effect emerged between the trainee counsellors and the matched control group on either of the two measures. Five signajicant categories were identtjied by trainees as associated with personal growth: self-awareness, congruence, feelings associated with change, spiritual reference and description of process.