Counsellors as a client: group counselling

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of group counselling on the awareness of the participants about their feelings, their ability to recognise emotional expressions and their cognitive emotion regulation strategies. In the study, experimental pretest-posttest and follow-up testing with control group design was used and a total of 24 subjects, 12 in the experimental group and 12 in the control group, participated in the study. As a result of the study, significant differences were found in the TAS-20; whereas there was no significant difference in JACFEE, and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire results. The follow-up test administered 8 weeks later showed that the scores that participants achieved from TAS-20 were maintained after the experiment.