Counseling and Adjustment

The effects of group counseling on gifted underachieving adolescents.

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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.

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