25-1 An Analysis of Group Leader’s Intentions and Members’ Perception Consistency in Solution-Focused Counseling

This study aims to investigate the group leader’s intentions and members' perception consistency in solution-focused counseling. A professionally trained and qualified leader was invited and seven junior college students were recruited to participate in eight counselling sessions as research subjects. After the end of each counseling session, the researcher conducted in-depth interviews with the leader and seven members within 48 hours, adapting the Interpersonal Process Recall model. The research findings are as follows:

1. There are ten factors pertaining to the group leader’s intentions, including group orientation and culture building, information gathering and member assessment, goal direction and setting, meaning reconstruction, exceptional solution, exploration and support, installation of hope, empowerment, reinforcement of change, and planning of action. Among the ten factors, goal setting and generation of exceptional solutions appeared most frequently.

2. The leader's factors appear a total of 162 times in the eight sections during group process. The most frequent is “exceptional solution,” followed by “goal direction and setting,” “installation of hope,” “planning of action,” and “group orientation and culture building.”

3. Consistency of members' perception and leader's intention in the eight sections during group process fluctuated with an average consistency of .71.Proposed suggestions for conducting practice and future research are provided.
(The manuscript is in Chinese)

Keywords
leader's intentions, members' perception, solution-focused counseling group.

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