ABSTRACT
This article describes how facilitating a mindfulness-based well-being group for international students (MBWIS) impacts self-efficacy development in group facilitation for graduate counseling students. Twelve students facilitated these eight-week structured psychoeducation support groups online and were supervised weekly by group counseling faculty. With a qualitative case study design, students participated in focus groups to discuss their experiences in the group facilitation. Two broad qualitative themes emerged from the findings including areas of increased self-efficacy and factors promoting self-efficacy. Implications for incorporating such multicultural group facilitation experiences as a teaching strategy when preparing students to conduct group work are discussed.
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Priscilla Rose Prasath
Priscilla Rose Prasath, Ph.D., LPC, M.B.A., is an Assistant Professor of Counseling in the Department of Counseling at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas. Yiying Xiong, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education, Johns Hopkins University. Qiyang Zhang, M.S.Ed., is a Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University, School of Education. Lieny Jeon, Ph.D., is the Jane Batten Bicentennial Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development.