ABSTRACT
When the late Saul Scheidlinger, one of the pioneers of group therapy with youth, interviewed me for my first job following my postdoctoral fellowship, he asked me if I had ever been a camp counselor. I answered that, in fact, I had. He replied, “Well, you’re more than half way toward being a group therapist. The rest will come with training and supervision.” It is true that one’s own life experiences in groups-youth groups, sports teams, religious organizations, families of origin-can prepare him or her for the role of running groups, but it is only with supervision and training that one can truly become a group leader.
