A Comparison of Three Methods of Group Vocational Counseling.
Group vocational counseling has been criticized as being individual counseling in a group setting. All counseling has been criticized when goals are not set in the initial stages of counseling. The present investigation superimposed a group discusssion process over a typical vocational counseling process in which the primary focus was on test information and over two atypical vocational counseling processes, one in which occupational information was primary and the other in which test information and occupational information were optional and randomly presented upon a group member's request. All subjects selected goals in the initial stages of counseling. Fifty -seven subjects were studied in six single-sex, experimental groups and two control groups. The atypical groups learned significantly more and retained more than did both the typical groups and the control groups.