英文摘要 |
The purposes of this study were to establish the norms of the Group Leadership Competence Scale (GLCS) and to examine differences in leaders’ competences by training levels and experiences. GLCS is a 49-item self-report instrument with eight factors and established reliability and validity. To establish the norms of GLCS, 899 participants who had group experiences were recruited from several departments of counseling and guidance at different universities and from various work settings in Taiwan to complete the surveys. The sample included (1) 291 undergraduate seniors, (2) 506 master students, master-level interns, and master-level counselors, and (3) 102 doctoral trainee or doctoral-level counselors. The GLCS norms were obtained by computing the percentile ranks and T-scores for each of the three sub-groups of counseling and therapy group leaders. Differences in group leaders competency scores by their educational levels were examined. The results indicated that master-level counselors and doctoral-level counselor reported significantly higher competencies than their lower-educational counterparts on two specific domains of GLCS: Facilitating Individual Depth and Breaking Through the Process Hinders. Further analyses only focused on the master-level sub-sample and explored the competency differences by age, post-graduation period, work setting, the number of groups conducted by participants, and types of group led by counselors. The results identified several markers associated with greater competency including working at in psychiatric and community counseling settings, over ten years of working experiences, experiences of leading semi-structured or non-structured groups, and having conducted four or more groups. Based on the findings, recommendations for practical application of the GLCS and suggestions for the future research for counselor educators, counselor supervisors, and researchers are presented. |