Comparison of two group counseling approaches to enhancing confidence in planning careers by undecided Taiwanese college women

This is a report of research comparing two approaches to enhance the career confidence of undecided female college students. 30 women who requested en rollment in career counseling were assigned to two counseling groups (a cog nitive reconstructing intervention group and a career decision-making skill s training group) and one no-treatment control group based on time of reque st. After participating in the two career counseling groups for eight sessi ons in a month, the female college students rated their mean confidence as increased over that of the no-treatment group. Analysis indicated that the indecisive female college students benefitted from career group counseling with an emphasis on self-efficacy and that the cognitive reconstructing int ervention was more effective.