The Effect of Existential Group Counseling Toward Self-Awareness and Life Goal Setting to Learn: A Case of First Year Students in Clinical Psychology Program
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Objectives:To study the effects of existential group counseling toward self-awareness and life
goal setting to learn on first-year students in the clinical psychology program. Materials and
methods: They were 17 voluntary students by criteria and randomized into 8 in the experimental
and 9 in the control group. The experimental group participated in existential group counseling
for 8 sessions. Each lasted one hour and 30 minutes. The control group received communication
and general relationship for 8 sessions per one and a half hour. The research tools were (1)
existential group counseling program, (2) self-awareness questionnaire, (3) life goal setting to
learn questionnaire. The statistics used to analyze the data were mean, standard deviation,
percentage, Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed rank test and Mann-Whitney U test. Results: 1)
The average score of self-awareness and goal setting to learn among the students in the
experimental group after the intervention was significantly higher than that before the experiment
(p < .05) 2) The average score of self-awareness and goal setting to learn among the students
in the experimental group was significant difference that of the control group after the intervention
(p < .05). Conclusion: Existentialist counseling group program can effectively increase selfawareness and goal setting in the first year of clinical psychology students.
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