A Standards-Based Inventory for Assessing Perceived Importance of and Confidence in Using ASGW's Core Group Work Skills

Abstract

Since the early 1980s, ASGW has promulgated standards for training group workers. Now, in their third revision, these standards establish core group work knowledge and skills to be included in all counselor training programs. To advance research on the relationship between mastery of ASGW's core knowledge and other group training and outcome phenomena, the ASGW Training Standards Committee developed the Core Group Work Skills Inventory—Importance and Confidence (CGWSI-IC) to assess an individual's valuing of and confidence in using the knowledge and skills embodied in the standards and assessed its psychometric properties.

Keywords:

• competence
• confidence
• group work
• importance
• instrumentation
• training

Notes

Upper triangle: zero-order correlations (n = 175).

Lower triangle: partial correlations (controlling for liking being in a group) (n = 174).

∗p < .05; ∗∗p < .01; ∗∗∗p < .001.

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Notes on contributors

F. Robert Wilson

F. Robert Wilson, Ph.D., is a professor in the Counseling Program at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and Co-chair of the ASGW Training Standards Committee.

Mark D. Newmeyer

Mark D. Newmeyer, Ed.D, is an adjunct assistant professor in the Counseling Program at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Co-chair of the ASGW Training Standards Committee.