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Author(s): Özlem Tagay [sup.1] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.411761.4, 0000 0004 0386 420X, Education Sciences-Guidance and Counseling Department, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, , Burdur, Turkey Introduction > Psychological counseling is [...], Aiming to achieve the behavioral goals of the clients, group psychological counseling is the help process carried out by a professional psychological counselor, who was trained in the field where interpersonal interaction is developed. It is important for psychological counselors to be experienced in the field and to go through a group experience in order to conduct psychological counseling with a group. This study examined the effect of psychological counseling on psychological counselors' self-efficacy and listening skills. The experimental group and the control group of the study consisted of a total of 18 guidance and psychological counseling graduate students. There were nine (three males, six females) participants in both of the groups. Quasi-experimental design with experiment, control, pretest-posttest and follow-up test was employed in the study. In data analysis, Mann-Whitney U test was used for the difference between the posttests of the experimental and control groups, whereas was used by, and Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used for the comparisons of the experimental group's pre-posttest and post-follow-up test. Group counseling continued once a week for 10 weeks. There were no members who did not continue and did not participate in the process. The study revealed that psychological counseling practice conducted with the experimental group was effective on psychological counselors' self-efficacy and listening skills. This effect continued in the follow-up measurement performed 2 months later. more...

AIM This study uses self-efficacy as a theoretical framework for clinical skills instruction. BACKGROUND Questions remain regarding the mechanism through which instruction on clinical skills in simulated laboratory settings enables [...] more...

Author Affiliations: Embrace teams large and small to foster the health of research Small research teams are more likely to publish papers that pose new ideas, as opposed to elaborating [...], Small teams might be more likely to produce 'disruptive research', but science needs a wide range of group sizes to truly flourish. Small teams might be more likely to produce 'disruptive research', but science needs a wide range of group sizes to truly flourish. more...