CHAPTER VII Group Guidance and Group Therapy

NO ONE familiar with counseling and guidance theory and practice would contend that group guidance and group therapy will eliminate the need for individual counseling and individual therapy. As Bennett (2) pointed out: "Years of trial-and-error methods and some sound experimentation and research have indicated that group and individual procedures in guidance are complementary aspects of a sound guidance program. Neither can fully take the place of the other, but each implements and supplements the other, rendering it more effective." Hoyt (20) conducted a carefully controlled experiment at the University of Minnesota to determine the relative effectiveness of group and individual vocational guidance programs. He concluded that vocational guidance by either the individual or the group method was effective in producing positive changes on relevant criteria and that there was no difference in effectiveness between the two methods. The group technic used consisted of an initial orientation lecture followed by discussio