It may be more helpful for practitioners and those beginning research to read accounts that are specific to guidance. There are two main source for this:

1] Higgins, R. & Westergaard, J.(1998):"In Search of Guidance Models for the group context" Occasional Papers in Careers Guidance No 2: a collection of professional papers by the staff of the College of Guidance Studies: Stourbridge, Institute of Careers Guidance

2] Gothard, B., Mignot, P., Offer, M.S., Ruff,M.(2001): "Careers Guidance in Context", Chapter 4: "Group Work: Guidance in a group setting", London, Sage.

These two sources are about the only ones I know of that directly address the issues of group work in guidance specifically, rather than offering models from elsewhere that are not so easy to apply to a careers work or guidance context because developed for other reasons in other professional settings. Both these sources, however, take account of wider theories - e.g. theories of adult learning, and of personal construct psychology, for example.

Marcus Offer, NICEC.