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Objective:To explore group leaders' intervention intensions during group counseling process. Methods: The Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) was applied to collect leaders' intervention intensions in 11 sessions of 2 unstructured counseling groups. Leaders' intervention intensions were coded according to coding manual. Results: Totally 29 types of intervention intensions were identified and grouped into 10 categories. The 3 intervention intensions with the highest frequency were"access to information and evaluation", "promoting awareness" and "expressing support for group members". The intervention intensions of establishing a group culture and promoting group cohesion mainly appeared in the early stage of group counseling. The intervention intension of dealing with emotion mostly appeared in the middle stage. The intervention intension of promoting awareness appeared a lot in the early and middle stages of group development The intervention intention of expressing support for group members was salient at the initial and final stages of group counseling. Conclusion: There may be diverse intervention intensions in the process of group counseling. Group leaders could pay attention to interpersonal interaction, giving consideration to both individuals and groups.
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Objective: To explore the intervention techniques of group counseling leader ("group leader") during group counseling process. Methods: The analysis material of intervention techniques was 11 sessions in two unstructured counseling groups. The analysis unit was every dialogue paragraph in the leader'soral response in the group counseling process. And the leaders' intervention techniques emerging in the video and verbatim transcription were coded according to adapted coding manual. Results: Totally 48 types of techniques were identified, that were grouped into 4 categories, including basic communication and reaction technique, exploring and influencing technique, facilitating technique, action and intervention technique. From the perspective of the single group counseling activity, techniques of basic communication and reaction were used more in the early and middle stage of an activity. Techniques of exploring and influencing and techniques of action and intervention were used more in the middle and later stage. And facilitating techniques were more used in the early and later stage. From the perspective of the whole grouping counseling process, techniques of basic communication and reaction and techniques of exploring and influencing were two primary types of intervention techniques. Frequency of using exploring and influencing techniques reached its peak in the intermediate stage of the group counseling process. The use of facilitating technology was gradually reduced. Conclusions: Techniques of basic communication and reaction are basic intervention techniques in group counseling, while techniques of exploring and influencing and techniques of action and intervention could be used on the basis of the development of the group. And facilitating techniques could facilitate to open the group and deepen the achievement of group counseling.