AN EVALUATION OF DISCUSSION TOPICS IN GROUP COUNSELING.

The article presents a study on content analysis of the verbal interactions which occurred within five counseling groups. This study attempted to examine somewhat similar areas in groups of relatively healthy individuals. The adolescents were gifted, underachieving ninth grade students in an outstanding four-year high school with considerably better than average counseling services. The verbal interactions of two groups of adolescents and three groups of prospective counselors were analyzed with reference to topic, affect, and client growth. Within the framework of this study and the classification system used, no clear-cut relationship was found between client growth and any of the elements noted above.